Piper's Row Wolverhampton

28 addresses across 5 postcodes (WV1), about 270 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44839570.

  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Wolverhampton costs £2,539 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 20% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wolverhampton, about 330 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, St Peter's Gardens, is about 300 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 16.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 153 to 156 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 25 of its 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Thornley Street Surgery, about 370 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 660 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 3% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1,344 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Wolverhampton in 2026-27: Band D £2,539 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,693£1,975£2,257£2,539£3,103£3,667£4,232£5,078

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (59% of about 1,090 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: 4.
  • 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 1.0 km

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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 3 October 2026 to 4 October 2026: Transport for West Midlands - Passenger Transport Executive, Permanent reinstatement, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 4 September 2026: CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 4 September 2026 to 15 September 2026: CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 4 September 2026 to 14 September 2026: CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 23 August 2026 to 24 August 2026: Transport for West Midlands - Passenger Transport Executive, Works for road purposes, lane closure, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 23 August 2026 to 25 August 2026: Transport for West Midlands - Passenger Transport Executive, Works for road purposes, lane closure, on the footway, carriageway (standard works)
  • 6 August 2026 to 18 August 2026: CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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.

Height above sea level

The street's 28 addresses are between 153 m and 156 m above sea level (155 m on average).

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
WV1 1LD100%100%100%0%
WV1 3AA100%100%100%0%
WV1 3AD20%20%20%0%
WV1 3JY100%100%100%0%
WV1 3LQ50%50%50%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 stationsWolverhampton 5.2 million journeys in 2024–25330 m
Coseley 520,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km
Bilbrook 139,000 journeys in 2024–256.0 km
Underground, metro or tramPipers Row (West Midlands Metro)40 m
Wolverhampton St George's (West Midlands Metro)200 m
Wolverhampton Station (West Midlands Metro)280 m
Bus stops32 stops within 400 m, 87 within 800 m; nearest Fryer Street Wolverhampton130 m
Bus or coach stationWolverhampton Bus Station20 m
Car parks15 within 800 m; nearest NCP - Wolverhampton Fryer Street Car Park170 m
EV charging points14 within 1.6 km; nearest bp pulse Charging Station160 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX29.4 km

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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Thornley Street Surgery370 m
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots280 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery290 m
HospitalWolverhamptom Recovery Hospital Prescriber700 m
Police stationBilston Street Police Station160 m
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m; nearest Payzone210 m

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 garden1 within 800 m; nearest St Peter's Gardens 3,320 m²300 m
Play areaUnnamed 600 m²830 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 5,020 m²1.0 km
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.1 ha910 m

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 0.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Former Wolverhampton County Court, a listed building (Grade II*), 90 m west. 129 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade I and 10 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Former Wolverhampton County CourtListed building, Grade II*90 m west
Grand TheatreListed building, Grade II*130 m north-west
Art Gallery and MuseumListed building, Grade II*300 m north-west
Central LibraryListed building, Grade II*320 m south-west
Anglian cross 25m south of St Peter's Collegiate ChurchScheduled monument370 m west
West ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.2 km west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Horseley Fields JunctionLake or reservoir660 m east
Wolverhampton LocksLake or reservoir2.1 km north
Stowlawn WoodWood2.4 km east
Aldersley JunctionLake or reservoir2.9 km north-west
Park HillHill2.9 km south
The GorgeValley4.6 km south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)16.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)13.44015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
70 to 7410
65 to 6920
60 to 6480
55 to 59143
Under 55325

25 of the street's 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 3 at 55 dB or more from railways, above the WHO guidelines.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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
Thomas Telford University Technical CollegeSecondary11–19720 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Woden Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.0 km No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
SS Mary and John's Catholic Primary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.0 km Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Eastfield Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km No published inspection
West Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km No published inspection
Eastfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.2 km No published inspection
Grove Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Nishkam Primary School Wolverhampton SikhPrimary4–111.2 km Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Graiseley Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Stephen's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Holy Rosary Catholic Primary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.4 km Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Dunstall Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Central Community Shop & Pomegranate Cafe WV1 1LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
Premier Retail Store WV1 3BJRetailers - other60 m4 Good18 Jun 2026
Peacebito Coffee House WV1 3BJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good18 Feb 2025
Wolves Fish Mongers (was Queen St Butchers) WV1 3JWRetailers - other60 m3 Generally satisfactory24 Mar 2026
Shawarma Station WV1 3JWTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m3 Generally satisfactory7 May 2025
The Mountain Bar And Grill WV1 3BJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good19 Feb 2026
Afro Treasure Retailers - other70 m1 Major improvement necessary7 Sep 2026
Sainsbury's WV1 1LDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets80 m5 Very good23 Jul 2026
Sunbeam WV1 1LDPub/bar/nightclub80 m5 Very good5 Dec 2024
Superdrug WV1 1LDRetailers - other80 m5 Very good22 Feb 2023
Kismet Coffee WV1 1LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good22 Oct 2025
Oxygene WV1 3JWPub/bar/nightclub110 m5 Very good6 Oct 2023
Little Dessert Shop WV1 3JWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m3 Generally satisfactory12 May 2026
Queens Cantonese WV1 3JWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m4 Good5 Jun 2025
Mak Halal Wolverhampton WV1 3JWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m4 Good11 Jul 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.

1,344 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences549
Shoplifting184
Public order137
Drugs117
Criminal damage and arson79
Anti-social behaviour66
Other theft66
Possession of weapons34
Bicycle theft26
Theft from the person22
Burglary21
Robbery20
Other crime13
Vehicle crime10

Most of these are attached to: On or near Police Station (296); On or near Market Street (233); On or near Union Street (114); On or near Princess Street (112); On or near Theatre/Concert Hall (105).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 656 residents in 241 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 age2440
Children under 156%17%
Aged 65 and over1%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)3%61%
Owned outright1%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented23%17%
Private rented74%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work39%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)22%6%
Retired (of adults)1%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van23%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram11%4%
By any public transport, including bus33%8%
On foot or by bicycle23%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)56%65%
Work 30 km or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)70%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

  • WV1 1LD: 15 addresses of 51 in the postcode
  • WV1 3LQ: 7 addresses of 9 in the postcode
  • WV1 3AD: 3 addresses of 16 in the postcode
  • WV1 3JY: 2 addresses of 5 in the postcode
  • WV1 3AA: 1 address of 25 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Berry Street · Piper's Row · Queen Street · Lichfield Street · Railway Drive · Princess Alley · Fryer Street · Castle Street · Stafford Street · Railway Street · Chubb Street · Short Street

All the streets in WV1 and across Wolverhampton.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside.

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