Ripon Road Walsall

61 addresses across 1 postcode (WS2), about 230 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41902532.

  • Sales: 31 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £175,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 45 homes have an energy certificate (B: 11, C: 17, D: 14, E: 3).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Walsall costs £2,627 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Walsall, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Reeds Wood Park, is about 750 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 128 to 136 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 32 of its 61 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Forrester Street Medical Centre, about 730 m (0.5 miles) away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 35% of households owned their home and 16% 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 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
20231£175,000£175,000£175,000
20211£130,000£130,000£130,000
20193£120,000£95,000£130,000
20162£84,300£82,000£86,600
20142£90,500£79,500£101,500
20131£74,000£74,000£74,000
20121£70,000£70,000£70,000
20111£55,000£55,000£55,000
20091£93,000£93,000£93,000
20082£88,000£80,000£96,000
20072£112,975£101,000£124,950
20064£102,498£93,000£111,000
Most recent sales (31)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Jun 202647 WS2 9UUOther£98,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Apr 202455 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£136,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Jul 20239 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£175,000
11 Apr 20238 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£122,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Apr 20239 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£106,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Apr 202165 WS2 9UUTerraced£130,000
30 Jul 201953 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£120,000
17 Jun 201955 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£130,000
13 May 20193 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£95,000
30 Jul 201847 WS2 9UUOther£4,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Oct 201623 WS2 9UUTerraced£86,600
10 Jun 201613 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£82,000
19 Dec 201459 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£101,500
19 Dec 201411 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£79,500
28 Mar 201359 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£74,000
24 Aug 201210 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£70,000
15 Jun 201110 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£55,000
18 Dec 200949 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£93,000
12 Dec 200814 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£80,000
21 Nov 200863 WS2 9UUTerraced£96,000
30 Mar 200717 WS2 9UUTerraced£124,950
22 Jan 200716 WS2 9UUTerraced£101,000
10 Nov 200620 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£95,000
2 Aug 200647 WS2 9UUTerraced£111,000
30 Jun 200643 WS2 9UUTerraced£109,995
24 Mar 200616 WS2 9UUTerraced£93,000
10 Dec 200463 WS2 9UUTerraced£84,950
30 Oct 200127 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£47,500
6 Aug 200112 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£18,360
15 Mar 19968 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£38,000
31 Oct 19959 WS2 9UUSemi-detached£38,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

45 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 80 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (27); House, end-terrace (8); House, mid-terrace (7). Built: 1950-1966 (25); 1930-1949 (10); 2017 (8). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (18); owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (32 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Walsall in 2026-27: Band D £2,627 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,752£2,044£2,336£2,627£3,211£3,795£4,379£5,255

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (75% of about 1,180 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

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

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

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 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 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.

© 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 61 addresses are between 128 m and 136 m above sea level (133 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
WS2 9UU100%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 stationsWalsall 1.2 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Bescot Stadium 155,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bloxwich 114,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops17 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 48 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ripon Road Alumwell60 m
Bus or coach stationWalsall Bus Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Village Hotel Birmingham - Walsall Car Park Pre Book330 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ionity Charging Station370 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX22.8 km (14 miles)

Local services

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

NearestDistance
GP surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Forrester Street Medical Centre730 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Manor Pharmacy730 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hillary Street Dental Surgery1.5 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalDorothy Pattison Hospital390 m
Police stationWest Midlands Police1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM470 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 Reeds Wood Park 24 ha750 m (0.5 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 420 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.7 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lane Avenue Allotments 4.3 ha320 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 24 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Walsall Memorial Garden, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2 km (1.2 miles) east. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Walsall Memorial GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.2 miles) east
Walsall ArboretumRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.5 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pouk HillHill890 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Hatherton LakeLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) east
Rough WoodWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-west
Lady PoolLake or reservoir3.2 km (2 miles) north-east
Park PitsLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) east
Sneyd ReservoirLake or reservoir4.1 km (2.5 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)17.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.7205
Particles (PM10)14.84015

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 6410
55 to 59310
Under 552961

32 of the street's 61 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 Walsall: see them on the Walsall page.

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
Alumwell Nursery SchoolNursery2–4140 m No published inspection
Alumwell Junior SchoolPrimary7–11160 m Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Alumwell Infant SchoolPrimary4–7160 m Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Walsall E-ACT AcademySecondary11–18380 m No published inspection
Reedswood E-ACT AcademyPrimary2–11530 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
King Charles Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Birchills Church of England Community AcademyPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hillary Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Croft AcademyPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Walsall Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
County Bridge Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Bentley West Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Requires improvement (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Alumwell Junior School WS2 9UPSchool/college/university90 m5 Very good30 Jun 2026
Alumwell Infant School WS2 9UPSchool/college/university90 m5 Very good30 Jun 2026
Jiseon Lee WS2 9UXOther catering premises130 mAwaiting inspection
Bluebells Childrens Home WS2 9UPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good7 Jan 2026
Primley Service Station & Asda Express WS2 8RNRetailers - other250 m5 Very good16 Sep 2025
Wing Wah Chinese Takeaway WS2 8RLTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m5 Very good4 Oct 2025
Benny's Chicken WS2 8RLTakeaway/sandwich shop250 mAwaiting inspection
The Local Shop WS2 9XQRetailers - other290 m1 Major improvement necessary11 Aug 2025
KFC (M6 Juction 10) WS2 8TJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
Karachi Street Food Ltd WS2 9QBMobile caterer380 mAwaiting inspection
W'hampton Rd Post Office & Newsagent WS2 8RQRetailers - other380 m3 Generally satisfactory27 Apr 2026
The Village Hotel & Leisure Club WS2 8TJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house380 m5 Very good14 Sep 2026
Holiday Inn Express Walsall WS2 8TJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house380 m5 Very good2 Mar 2026
West Walsall E Act Academy WS2 9UASchool/college/university380 m5 Very good21 May 2024
Dorothy Pattison Hospital WS2 9XHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good19 Feb 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
Violence and sexual offences42
Criminal damage and arson16
Vehicle crime10
Other theft10
Public order7
Drugs7
Burglary6
Other crime4
Possession of weapons3
Robbery3
Anti-social behaviour3
Shoplifting2
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Southbourne Avenue (27); On or near Primley Close (24); On or near Chester Place (16); On or near Petrol Station (14); On or near Ripon Road (14).

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: 388 residents in 147 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 age3540
Children under 1527%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)35%61%
Owned outright20%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented50%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)12%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus11%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%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)16%34%
No qualifications33%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)83%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, semi-detached (lodged 20 October 2026) found 2 November 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.

  • WS2 9UU: 61 addresses of 62 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Madison Avenue · Chester Place · Moat Road · York Avenue · Norwich Road · Primley Close · Alumwell Road · Alum Well Road · Exeter Place · Tempus Drive · Bassett Street · Wolverhampton Road

All the streets in WS2 and across Walsall.

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.