Novale Way Wakefield

19 addresses across 2 postcodes (WF1), about 350 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 41807041.

  • Sales: 22 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £282,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Wakefield cost £199,283 in August 2026 (+2.9% on a year); private rents averaged £810 a month.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (B: 17).
  • Flood: 5 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Radon: Up to 5 to 10% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A642, carries 15,010 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Wakefield costs £2,297 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wakefield Kirkgate, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 10 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 42 to 53 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 19 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Eastmoor Health Centre, about 780 m (0.5 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 610 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 61% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 78 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
20251£282,000£282,000£282,000
20231£171,000£171,000£171,000
20213£314,995£190,000£385,000
20201£318,000£318,000£318,000
20193£242,500£242,500£319,995
20187£250,000£220,000£339,995
20175£270,000£189,995£432,995
All 22 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Jul 20181 WF1 4FESemi-detached£224,995New build.
21 Dec 20172 WF1 4FEDetached£432,995New build.
26 Apr 20183 WF1 4FESemi-detached£229,995New build.
20 Dec 20174 WF1 4FESemi-detached£270,000New build.
13 Dec 20195 WF1 4FEDetached£319,995New build.
16 Mar 20186 WF1 4FETerraced£250,000New build.
23 Apr 20187 WF1 4FEDetached£339,995New build.
27 Apr 20188 WF1 4FETerraced£250,000New build.
31 May 201810 WF1 4FETerraced£270,000New build.
12 Mar 202112 WF1 4FEDetached£385,000
21 Dec 201712 WF1 4FEDetached£432,995New build.
15 Dec 201714 WF1 4FETerraced£220,000New build.
23 Feb 201816 WF1 4FETerraced£220,000New build.
30 Jun 202318 WF1 4FETerraced£171,000
8 Mar 202118 WF1 4FETerraced£190,000
10 Nov 201718 WF1 4FETerraced£189,995New build.
11 Dec 202020 WF1 4FEDetached£318,000New build.
22 Mar 202122 WF1 4FEDetached£314,995New build.
23 Oct 202524 WF1 4FESemi-detached£282,000
20 Dec 202424 WF1 4FESemi-detached£290,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 May 201924 WF1 4FESemi-detached£242,500New build.
15 Aug 201926 WF1 4FESemi-detached£242,500New build.

House prices and rents in Wakefield

A typical home in Wakefield cost £199,283 in August 2026, 2.9% more than a year before. That is 19% more than five years earlier and 54% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£314,988
Semi-detached£200,459
Terraced£159,794
Flat or maisonette£100,645
Bought by a first-time buyer£178,078

Private renters in Wakefield paid £810 a month on average in September 2026, 5.9% more than a year before. That is 31% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£579
Two bedrooms£730
Three bedrooms£874
Four or more bedrooms£1,224

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 August 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 117 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (5); House, semi-detached (5); House, detached (4). Built: 2017 (6); 2016 (4); 2018 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (17 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,354 kWh of it on average in 2024, 24% less than the district's 10,995 kWh, and 4,196 kWh of electricity, 35% more than the district's 3,109 kWh. There are gas meters for about 83% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WF1 4FE182,786 kWh 128,520 kWh
WF1 4FN233,100 kWh 227,126 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is WF1.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 C (25% of about 1,950 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: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 4 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
WF1 4FEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 2 unlikely
WF1 4FNnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 2 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

2 of the street's 2 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 5 to 10%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 19 addresses are between 42 m and 53 m above sea level (51 m on average); the ground rises about 12 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
WF1 4FE100%100%100%0%
WF1 4FN100%100%100%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 Kirkgate 612,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Wakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–252 km (1.3 miles)
Outwood 310,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 36 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Novale Way Pinderfields40 m
Bus or coach stationWakefield Bus Station Wakefield City Centre1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Car parksCar Park1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA22.2 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Eastmoor Health Centre Good Jul 2021780 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Door 2 Door Pharmacy780 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery, Newton Lodge700 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalPinderfields Hospital Requires improvement Mar 2024480 m (0.3 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hepworth House Outstanding Nov 2022510 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationWest Yorkshire Police Federation1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nisa Cashzone750 m (0.5 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,260 m²10 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 1.6 ha690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 300 m²60 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,510 m²230 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,130 m²770 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 3.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Clarke Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 150 m south. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Clarke HallListed building, Grade II*150 m south
Stanley Ferry aqueductScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Calder CutLake or reservoir1.5 km (1 mile) north-east
Park HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) south
The Half MoonLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Low WoodWood2 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Birkwood PlantationWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Stennard IslandIsland2.2 km (1.4 miles) south

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)11.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.94015

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
70 to 7410
65 to 69150
60 to 6430
Under 55019

19 of the street's 19 addresses are 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), 6 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Wakefield Pinders Primary (JIN) SchoolPrimary3–11890 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 47% in 2023)
Outwood Academy City FieldsSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 44.5 (38.8 in 2025 and 38.6 in 2024); 52.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
Outwood Primary Academy Park HillPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
St Austin's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 51% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 47% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
Outwood Primary Academy GreenhillPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 72% in 2023)
Newton Hill Community SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 84% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 73% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
Stanley Grove Primary and Nursery AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 87% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 80% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
Wakefield St Johns Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Wakefield St Marys Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 34% in 2023)
Rooks Nest AcademyPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 85% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15% at the higher standard (2025; 80% in 2024 and 91% in 2023)
Heart of Yorkshire Education Group16 plus16–991.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade C; 8.6% AAB or better; progress below average
CAPA College16 plus16–192 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade B+; 0% AAB or better; progress well above average

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

8 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 480 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Abacus Nursery WF1 4DG Full day care 166 Good (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 480 m (0.3 miles)
Childcare @ St Swithun's WF1 4RR Sessional day care 32 Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 820 m (0.5 miles)
Pinders Primary School Tutoring WF1 3SQ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 870 m (0.5 miles)
Future Einsteins College Grove WF1 3RZ Full day care 74 Outstanding (Feb 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 900 m (0.6 miles)
Nurtured @ Wakefield WF1 3RY Full day care 76 Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Trinity Pre-School WF1 4LH Sessional day care 28 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
GMI Education Centre Tutoring WF1 3PD Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Premier Education Wakefield Grammar WF1 3QX Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 190 childminders and 13 home childcarers (nannies) in Wakefield. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 6 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
Meadowcroft School WF1 4ADSchool/college/university150 m5 Very good23 Apr 2024
Abacus Nursery & Stray Cats Holiday WF1 4DGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good17 Mar 2025
Wards Pantries (NHS) New Site WF1 4DGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good30 Sep 2025
WHSmith WF1 4DGRetailers - other170 m5 Very good17 Jan 2023
In Patient Catering WF1 4DGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good30 Sep 2025
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Staff Coffee Club WF1 4DGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Staff Restaurant WF1 4DGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good9 Mar 2026
Pinderfields Staff and Visitor Coffee Bar WF1 4DGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Wakefield Hospice WF1 4TSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good4 Jun 2026
Simply Spiritual Healing WF1 4BLRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Sep 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.

78 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences29
Criminal damage and arson13
Anti-social behaviour9
Other crime7
Public order5
Burglary5
Vehicle crime4
Other theft3
Drugs1
Robbery1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bar Lane (40); On or near St Annes Drive (15); On or near Royal Troon Mews (7); On or near Heselden Drive (5); On or near Shaw Court (5).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 5 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 17% happened in the dark, and 33% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202210
202330
202411
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
19 Jun 2024 08:10 Serious 1 person A6194, 30 mph Daylight
7 Nov 2023 20:30 Slight 1 person A642, 30 mph Dark, wet road
6 Nov 2023 14:50 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child A6194, 30 mph Daylight
3 Nov 2023 15:00 Slight 1 person A642, 30 mph Daylight
15 May 2022 18:40 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A642, 30 mph Wet road
10 Dec 2021 12:59 Slight 1 person A642, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A642 between A61 and A6194, with 15,010 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 470 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A6194 A6194 to A642 12,880 estimated; counted 2019 3% 40 m
A642 A6194 spur Novale Way to A6194 8,019 estimated; counted 2019 1% 240 m
A6194 A6194 spur Novale Way to A642 7,944 estimated; counted 2021 4% 280 m
A642 A61 to A6194 15,010 estimated; counted 2019 2% 470 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 607 residents in 228 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 age3040
Children under 1528%17%
Aged 65 and over3%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright8%33%
Shared ownership5%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented4%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work82%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)5%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)43%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)42%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)61%34%
No qualifications4%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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

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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.

  • WF1 4FE: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • WF1 4FN: 1 address of 24 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Pilkington Close · Clarke Hall Court · The Fouracres · Pinderhill Avenue · The Pinders · Beecher Drive · Haywood Road · Woodhall Mews · St Annes Drive · Clarke Grove · Shaw Court · Royal Troon Mews

All the streets in WF1 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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.