Milton Crescent Wakefield

67 addresses across 2 postcodes (WF2), about 390 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41802696.

  • Sales: 43 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £160,250 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 47 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 14, D: 27, E: 5).
  • Flood: 4 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Wakefield costs £2,297 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 99% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wakefield Westgate, about 2.6 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 470 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 67 to 76 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 67 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Lupset Health Centre, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 159 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20242£160,250£152,500£168,000
20233£167,000£120,000£180,000
20222£145,000£135,000£155,000
20211£145,000£145,000£145,000
20191£145,000£145,000£145,000
20161£113,000£113,000£113,000
20154£105,500£100,000£115,000
20141£86,000£86,000£86,000
20133£106,000£75,000£113,000
20121£106,000£106,000£106,000
20082£114,975£105,000£124,950
20072£110,750£105,000£116,500
Most recent sales (43)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Sep 202414 WF2 8AESemi-detached£168,000
29 Feb 202416 WF2 8AESemi-detached£152,500
22 May 202348 WF2 8AESemi-detached£167,000
25 Apr 202320 WF2 8AESemi-detached£120,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Feb 202349 WF2 8AESemi-detached£120,000
27 Jan 202374 WF2 8AETerraced£180,000
27 May 202210 WF2 8AESemi-detached£155,000
12 May 202222 WF2 8AESemi-detached£135,000
30 Apr 202156 WF2 8AESemi-detached£145,000
25 Oct 201968 WF2 8AESemi-detached£145,000
28 Mar 201947 WF2 8AESemi-detached£80,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 May 201642 WF2 8AESemi-detached£113,000
21 Dec 20158 WF2 8AESemi-detached£107,000
17 Dec 201550 WF2 8AESemi-detached£115,000
20 Mar 201510 WF2 8AESemi-detached£104,000
20 Feb 201556 WF2 8AESemi-detached£100,000
27 Jun 201444 WF2 8AESemi-detached£86,000
6 Dec 201345 WF2 8AESemi-detached£113,000
31 Oct 201328 WF2 8AESemi-detached£75,000
7 Oct 201362 WF2 8AESemi-detached£106,000
3 Feb 201254 WF2 8AESemi-detached£106,000
20 Jun 200844 WF2 8AESemi-detached£105,000
20 Mar 200876 WF2 8AESemi-detached£124,950
27 Mar 200751 WF2 8AESemi-detached£116,500
1 Mar 200719 WF2 8AESemi-detached£105,000
28 Sep 200622 WF2 8AESemi-detached£113,000
27 Sep 200674 WF2 8AETerraced£112,053
7 Apr 200612 WF2 8AESemi-detached£105,000
20 Feb 200674 WF2 8AETerraced£90,000
13 Jun 200544 WF2 8AESemi-detached£45,950New build.
13 May 200533 WF2 8AESemi-detached£100,000
29 Jul 200341 WF2 8AESemi-detached£77,500
18 Oct 200249 WF2 8AESemi-detached£60,950
10 Jun 200260 WF2 8AESemi-detached£25,730
14 Dec 200153 WF2 8AESemi-detached£55,000
30 Oct 200011 WF2 8AESemi-detached£28,000
8 May 200039 WF2 8AESemi-detached£37,000
4 Nov 199851 WF2 8AESemi-detached£43,950
28 Aug 19988 WF2 8AESemi-detached£33,000
30 Oct 199745 WF2 8AESemi-detached£25,500
27 Jun 199766 WF2 8AESemi-detached£45,000
15 May 199756 WF2 8AESemi-detached£46,000
1 May 199743 WF2 8AESemi-detached£25,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

47 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (46); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1930-1949 (38); 1950-1966 (9). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (23); rented (social) (18); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (25 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Wakefield in 2026-27: Band D £2,297 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,531£1,786£2,042£2,297£2,807£3,318£3,828£4,594

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (68% of about 820 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 5 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WF2 8AEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 4 / 5 unlikely
WF2 8ABnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 67 addresses are between 67 m and 76 m above sea level (71 m on average); the ground rises about 9 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WF2 8AB100%100%100%0%
WF2 8AE99%99%99%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsWakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Wakefield Kirkgate 612,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Sandal and Agbrigg 202,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Broadway Waterton Road Lupset180 m
Bus or coach stationOssett Bus Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Car parksMorrisons Car park-Wakefield1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA22.9 km (14 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lupset Health Centre1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wakefield Pharmacy1.2 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalPinderfields Hospital4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Police stationWest Yorkshire Police Forensic Unit2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM680 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 15 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,640 m²650 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.9 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.0 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Thornes Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2 km (1.3 miles) east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Thornes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.3 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Thornes CutLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Lupset PondLake or reservoir2 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Giggal HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Calder IslandIsland2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Hartley Bank WoodWood2.8 km (1.7 miles) south
Holme Leas CloughValley3.8 km (2.4 miles) north-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)11.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)13.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 556667

1 of the street's 67 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Wakefield: see them on the Wakefield page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Wakefield Snapethorpe Primary SchoolPrimary3–11280 m Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Horbury AcademySecondary11–161.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ossett South Parade PrimaryPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
The Mount Junior Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Horbury Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Trinity Academy Cathedral Church of EnglandSecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Wakefield Flanshaw Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Horbury St Peter's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Ossett Flushdyke Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Snapethorpe Hall Care Home WF2 8YAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 mAwaiting inspection
The Coffee Shop @ St Georges WF2 8AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Aug 2026
St George's Lunch Club WF2 8AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Aug 2026
St George's Food Bank/Food Pantry WF2 8AARetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Mar 2025
Aspens Services Ltd @ WF2 8AASchool/college/university450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Feb 2025
Breakfast Club WF2 8AASchool/college/university450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Nov 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

159 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences75
Anti-social behaviour39
Public order18
Other theft6
Criminal damage and arson6
Burglary5
Drugs4
Other crime3
Possession of weapons1
Bicycle theft1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Weaver Court (34); On or near Broadway (32); On or near Wool Chase (24); On or near Bobbin Way (21); On or near Bevan Place (16).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 363 residents in 149 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3240
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%61%
Owned outright20%33%
Shared ownership6%1%
Social rented19%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work69%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • WF2 8AE: 66 addresses of 67 in the postcode
  • WF2 8AB: 1 address of 11 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Cotton Court · Milton Road · Weavers Court · Snapethorpe Gate · St Bartholomews Court · Bobbin Way · Wool Chase · Hallamshire Mews · Castle Hill · Airedale Heights · Nightingale Crest · Hall Road

All the streets in WF2 and across Wakefield.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.