Queen Street Worcester

10 addresses across 3 postcodes (WR1), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 45000851.

  • 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 Worcester costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 65% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Worcester Foregate Street, about 250 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, St Andrew's Gardens, is about 350 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 22 to 23 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 10 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice, about 280 m away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 8% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1,549 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
Most recent sales (3)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 May 2022INDEPENDENCE HOUSE WR1 2PLOther£420,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 May 2022INDEPENDENCE HOUSE WR1 2PLOther£420,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Feb 2019INDEPENDENCE HOUSE WR1 2PLOther£420,000Not 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 Worcester in 2026-27: Band D £2,406 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,604£1,871£2,138£2,406£2,940£3,475£4,010£4,812

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (70% 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: yes, Historic City (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 3.
  • 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.

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, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
WR1 2PLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WR1 2DFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WR1 2PWnot 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 10 addresses are between 22 m and 23 m above sea level (23 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
WR1 2DF100%100%67%0%
WR1 2PL100%100%100%0%
WR1 2PW96%70%65%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 stationsWorcester Foregate Street 1.9 million journeys in 2024–25250 m
Worcester Shrub Hill 577,000 journeys in 2024–25670 m (0.4 miles)
Worcestershire Parkway 456,000 journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cross Worcester130 m
Bus or coach stationWorcester Bus Station320 m
Car parks10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cornmarket Car Park20 m
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station810 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX43.2 km (27 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Spring Gardens Group Medical Practice280 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Superdrug Pharmacy140 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery90 m
HospitalUhcw Worcester Spire Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationWorcester Police Station540 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 12 St Swithins Street Halifax100 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Andrew's Gardens 6,280 m²350 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Cripplegate Park 4.9 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 50 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,810 m²740 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hillborough Allotments 1.5 ha610 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 7.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Martin, a listed building (Grade II*), 60 m south. 522 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 12 of them Grade I and 34 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MartinListed building, Grade II*60 m south
Queen Elizabeth HouseListed building, Grade II*60 m south-west
BushwackersListed building, Grade II*90 m west
Former Church of St NicholasListed building, Grade II*130 m west
City walls: section extending 90ft (30m) under the E walls of Nos 2-5, No 1 Court, New StreetScheduled monument150 m south-east
City walls: section extending 130ft (40m) from the back of No 27 New Street to Windsor RowScheduled monument190 m south-east
City walls: section extending 50ft (15m) between Windsor Row and Nash's PassageScheduled monument230 m south-east
Gheluvelt ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Battle of Worcester 1651 with Powick Old Bridge 1642Registered battlefield2.5 km (1.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Perry WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Woodside CoppiceWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Gorse HillHill1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Leopard HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) east
Grove Farm ReservoirLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) west
Bevere IslandIsland4.7 km (2.9 miles) north

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)8.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
65 to 6940
60 to 6460
Under 55010

10 of the street's 10 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 Worcester: see them on the Worcester 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
Stanley Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–11680 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Clement's CofE Primary Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St George's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Bishop Perowne CofE College Church of EnglandSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Christopher Whitehead Language CollegeSecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St George's CofE Primary School Worcester Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic PrimaryPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Oldbury Park Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Barnabas CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Red Hill CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hollymount SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Waves De Portugal WR1 2PLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 mAwaiting inspection
The Salvation Army WR1 2PNOther catering premises40 m5 Very good22 Apr 2026
St Swithuns Institute WR1 2PNOther catering premises40 mExempt
Friends Asian Supermarket WR1 1UWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets50 m5 Very good16 May 2024
Caffe Bolero WR1 1UWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
The Imperial Tavern WR1 1UWPub/bar/nightclub80 m5 Very good27 Apr 2026
Bushwackers WR1 2PWPub/bar/nightclub90 mExempt
Oxfam WR1 2DQRetailers - other90 mExempt
Holland & Barrett WR1 2DQRetailers - other90 m5 Very good16 Oct 2025
The Sweet Greeks WR1 2DQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good27 Nov 2024
The Royal Exchange WR1 2DFPub/bar/nightclub100 mExempt
O'Neills/Reflex/ Burger Dudes WR1 1UNPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good9 Dec 2025
VIP Day Centre Worcester WR1 2RSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 m4 Good2 Oct 2026
St Richards Hospice WR1 2PSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good22 Jul 2025
Pack It In WR1 2DJRetailers - other110 m5 Very good20 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.

1,549 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences529
Shoplifting397
Anti-social behaviour181
Public order114
Other theft62
Criminal damage and arson51
Bicycle theft48
Robbery47
Burglary35
Drugs29
Possession of weapons16
Theft from the person15
Other crime13
Vehicle crime12

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (207); On or near Angel Street (153); On or near Supermarket (133); On or near Nightclub (98); On or near The Avenue (97).

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: 279 residents in 119 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 age2540
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and overunder 1%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)8%61%
Owned outrightunder 1%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented16%17%
Private rented74%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)under 1%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van28%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram9%4%
By any public transport, including bus22%8%
On foot or by bicycle32%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)71%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%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

  • Food hygiene ratings Boots UK (retailers - other, WR1 2EU) now 4 Good, was 5 Very good (rated 12 October 2026) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Bridge Inn (pub/bar/nightclub, WR1 2RX) is no longer listed; it was rated Exempt found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Five Guys (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WR1 2BY) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 28 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings All Bar One Worcester (pub/bar/nightclub, WR1 2BY) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 29 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Keystones Cocktail Club (pub/bar/nightclub, WR1 2HB) now Exempt, was 4 Good found 30 October 2026

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.

  • WR1 2PL: 8 addresses of 9 in the postcode
  • WR1 2DF: 1 address of 7 in the postcode
  • WR1 2PW: 1 address of 40 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Trinity · City Walls Road · Silver Street · Trinity Street · Mealcheapen Street · Mealcheapen Street · Trinity Passage · Lowesmoor · Lowesmoor · The Avenue · New Street · St Swithin's Street

All the streets in WR1 and across Worcester.

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.