Pountney Street Wolverhampton

23 addresses across 4 postcodes (WV2), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44840240.

  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Wolverhampton costs £2,539 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 75% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wolverhampton, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, St Chad's Recreation Ground, is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 148 to 156 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 19 of its 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Duncan Street Primary Care Centre, about 520 m (0.3 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 690 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 29% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 114 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often vehicle crime.

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
Most recent sales (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Jun 202358 WV2 4HXOther£380,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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 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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (63% of about 1,200 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 26 October 2026 to 30 October 2026: National Grid Electricity Distribution Telecoms, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (standard works)
  • 21 August 2026 to 23 August 2026: National Grid Electricity Distribution Telecoms, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)

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, 1 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
WV2 4HXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WV2 4HNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 3 unlikely
WV2 4JHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WV2 4LYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 23 addresses are between 148 m and 156 m above sea level (152 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
WV2 4HN100%90%90%0%
WV2 4HX100%86%86%0%
WV2 4JH100%75%75%0%
WV2 4LY100%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 stationsWolverhampton 5.2 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Coseley 520,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Bilbrook 139,000 journeys in 2024–256.4 km (4 miles)
Underground, metro or tramWolverhampton St George's (West Midlands Metro)770 m (0.5 miles)
The Royal (West Midlands Metro)850 m (0.5 miles)
Pipers Row (West Midlands Metro)930 m (0.6 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 71 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Haven Blakenhall170 m
Bus or coach stationWolverhampton Bus Station930 m (0.6 miles)
Car parks7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parking Services - City of Wolverhampton Council280 m
EV charging points17 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea550 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX29.3 km (18 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Duncan Street Primary Care Centre520 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest All Saints Pharmacy500 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pennfields Health Centre580 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalWolverhamptom Recovery Hospital Prescriber540 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationBilston Street Police Station810 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone460 m (0.3 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Chad's Recreation Ground 1.2 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 430 m²250 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha180 m
AllotmentsHowell Road Allotment Site 2.0 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St John, a listed building (Grade II*), 390 m north. 105 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 7 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St JohnListed building, Grade II*390 m north
Catholic Church of St Mary and St JohnListed building, Grade II*490 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Church of St LukeListed building, Grade II*600 m (0.4 miles) south
Central LibraryListed building, Grade II*650 m (0.4 miles) north
Anglian cross 25m south of St Peter's Collegiate ChurchScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north
West ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Horseley Fields JunctionLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Park HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Park CoppiceWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Ashen CoppiceWood2.5 km (1.5 miles) south
Stowlawn WoodWood2.8 km (1.7 miles) east
The GorgeValley3.8 km (2.4 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)13.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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
60 to 6440
55 to 59150
Under 55423

19 of the street's 23 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 Wolverhampton: see them on the Wolverhampton 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
Graiseley Primary SchoolPrimary3–11330 m Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
SS Mary and John's Catholic Primary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11600 m (0.4 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Luke's Church of England Aided Primary SchoolPrimary3–11710 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Grove Primary AcademyPrimary3–11750 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Nishkam Primary School Wolverhampton SikhPrimary4–11850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Royal School, WolverhamptonAll-through4–19890 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Phoenix Nursery SchoolNursery3–5940 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Bantock Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Merridale Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
West Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Goldthorn Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Report card (Jul 2026): 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: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Thomas Telford University Technical CollegeSecondary11–191.7 km (1 mile) 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

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
Golden Silver Suite WV2 4HXPub/bar/nightclub40 m5 Very good21 Feb 2020
Adam Bakery WV2 4HXManufacturers/packers80 mExempt
The Hangar WV2 4HPPub/bar/nightclub110 m5 Very good27 Feb 2024
Jack's Cafe And Bar WV2 4DUPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good10 Jun 2026
Taj Palace WV2 4DURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good6 May 2017
Cave Lounge WV2 4DURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m4 Good19 Sep 2018
Paul Leo K619 FVV WV2 4JSMobile caterer140 m5 Very good10 Jun 2025
Leo's Icecream (N234 JHK) WV2 4JSMobile caterer140 m5 Very good10 Jun 2025
The New Yew Tree WV2 4HNPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good13 Mar 2025
Desi Yew Tree WV2 4HNPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Steel Mill Events Ltd Pub/bar/nightclub170 m1 Major improvement necessary2 Sep 2026
Funky Pizzas WV2 4JWTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m4 Good9 Dec 2025
LM's Gym WV2 4HHRetailers - other190 mExempt
Taste Da Flavourz WV2 4JWTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m4 Good30 Jul 2026
The Camper Hamper WV2 3BPMobile caterer200 m5 Very good22 Jul 2026

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.

114 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Vehicle crime34
Violence and sexual offences26
Other theft12
Criminal damage and arson10
Burglary7
Drugs6
Public order5
Shoplifting5
Possession of weapons4
Bicycle theft1
Robbery1
Theft from the person1
Anti-social behaviour1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bloomsbury Street (35); On or near Grove Street (35); On or near Parking Area (26); On or near Drayton Street (11); On or near Sidney Street (7).

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: 686 residents in 311 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 age3940
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)29%61%
Owned outright20%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented34%17%
Private rented36%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)10%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications33%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)67%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all14%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 3 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.

  • WV2 4HX: 19 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • WV2 4HN: 2 addresses of 27 in the postcode
  • WV2 4JH: 1 address of 12 in the postcode
  • WV2 4LY: 1 address of 30 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Stevens Gate · Dobbs Street · Little Pountney Street · Pearson Street · Bell Place · Drayton Street · Frederick Street · Pool Street · Stewart Street · Thomas Street · Sidney Street · Cooke Street

All the streets in WV2 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 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.