Riverside Stafford

42 addresses across 31 postcodes (ST16), about 60 m long. USRN 37602776.

  • 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 Stafford costs £2,303 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 83% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Stafford, about 460 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Victoria Park, is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 73 to 75 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 31 of its 42 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mill Bank, about 210 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 26% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 655 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 (1)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
8 Apr 2025UNIT 3-4 ST16 3PTOther£19,600,000Not 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 Stafford in 2026-27: Band D £2,303 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,535£1,791£2,047£2,303£2,814£3,326£3,838£4,605

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (69% of about 1,620 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: yes, Stafford (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
ST16 9SAzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 3PTzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 2HYzone 2 1 / 1 / 0 unlikely
ST16 3AQzone 2
ST16 9SBzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SDzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SEzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SFzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SGzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SHzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SJzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SLzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SNzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SPzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SQzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SRzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SSzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9STzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SUzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SWzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SXzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SYzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9SZzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9TAzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9TBzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9TDzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9TEzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9TGzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9THzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9ZQzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ST16 9ZTzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 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 42 addresses are between 73 m and 75 m above sea level (75 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
ST16 2HY67%0%0%0%
ST16 3PT0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SA83%83%83%0%
ST16 9SB0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SD0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SE0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SF0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SG0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SH0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SJ0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SL0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SN0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SP0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SQ0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SR0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SS0%0%0%0%
ST16 9ST0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SU0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SW0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SX0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SY0%0%0%0%
ST16 9SZ0%0%0%0%
ST16 9TA0%0%0%0%
ST16 9TB0%0%0%0%
ST16 9TD0%0%0%0%
ST16 9TE0%0%0%0%
ST16 9TG0%0%0%0%
ST16 9TH0%0%0%0%
ST16 9ZQ0%0%0%0%
ST16 9ZT0%0%0%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 stationsStafford 2.5 million journeys in 2024–25460 m (0.3 miles)
Penkridge 293,000 journeys in 2024–259.1 km (5.6 miles)
Stone (Staffs) 246,000 journeys in 2024–2511.8 km (7.3 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wetherspoons PH Stafford Town Centre50 m
Bus or coach stationNorton Bridge Station Drive8.6 km (5.3 miles)
Car parks10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waterfront Carpark120 m
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest E.ON Drive Public Charging Station250 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX46.3 km (29 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mill Bank210 m
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Superdrug Pharmacy90 m
NHS dentists13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Civic Centre50 m
HospitalSt George's Hospital750 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationStafford Police Station210 m
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Britannia Building Society130 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Victoria Park 4.5 ha110 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,400 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,480 m²370 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 5,100 m²870 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 4.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Former Post Office and attached railings and gate, a listed building (Grade II*), 90 m north-west. 114 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 12 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Former Post Office and attached railings and gateListed building, Grade II*90 m north-west
Church of St ChadListed building, Grade II*150 m north
Swan HotelListed building, Grade II*170 m north-west
45 and 46, Greengate StreetListed building, Grade II*180 m north-west
East GateScheduled monument310 m north-east
Battle of Hopton Heath 1643Registered battlefield4.6 km (2.9 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Mill PondLake or reservoir240 m south-west
Kingsmead MarshWetland450 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Tillington PoolLake or reservoir1.7 km (1 mile) north-west
Kingston Pool CovertWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Castle WoodWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) west
Beacon HillHill3 km (1.9 miles) north-east

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)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

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
55 to 59310
Under 551142

31 of the street's 42 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 Stafford: see them on the Stafford 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
St Austin's Catholic Primary School and Nursery Roman CatholicPrimary3–11490 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11610 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Blessed William Howard Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18740 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
John Wheeldon Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
King Edward VI High SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St Leonard's Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Rowley Park Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St John's CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Blessed Mother Teresa's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Flash Ley Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Silkmore Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Zizzi ST16 3PTOther catering premises10 m5 Very good16 Mar 2026
Odeon Cinema ST16 2HQRetailers - other30 m5 Very good20 Oct 2026
Bengal Lounge ST16 2HYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 mAwaiting inspection
Admiral ST16 2HLRetailers - other60 m5 Very good14 Apr 2025
The Boppin Dolphin ST16 2HLTakeaway/sandwich shop60 m1 Major improvement necessary20 Nov 2025
Betsy's x Little Dessert Shop Stafford ST16 2QZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 mAwaiting inspection
Picture House ST16 2HLPub/bar/nightclub70 m5 Very good13 Jun 2025
Subway ST16 2HLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m4 Good16 Dec 2025
The Liquor Tank ST16 2LPPub/bar/nightclub70 m4 Good1 Apr 2026
Greengate Off Licence ST16 2HSRetailers - other80 m4 Good30 Oct 2024
European Mini Market ST16 2HLRetailers - other80 mAwaiting inspection
Boutique Events Staffordshire Ltd ST16 2HZOther catering premises80 m5 Very good3 Oct 2024
Dixy Chicken ST16 2HJTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m3 Generally satisfactory7 May 2026
Marks and Spencer ST16 2HJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets90 m5 Very good5 Mar 2026
Casa ST16 2HJPub/bar/nightclub90 m5 Very good20 Jul 2023

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.

655 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences225
Anti-social behaviour102
Shoplifting88
Public order84
Drugs42
Criminal damage and arson38
Other theft19
Bicycle theft17
Other crime12
Possession of weapons10
Burglary9
Theft from the person4
Robbery4
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bridge Street (173); On or near Parking Area (136); On or near Waterfront Way (77); On or near Tipping Street (39); On or near Mill Bank (38).

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: 565 residents in 382 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 age3440
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)26%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented57%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van31%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle28%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)36%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 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.

Nearby streets

South Walls · Waterfront Way · Tipping Street · Mill Bank · Bridge Street · Greengate Street · Earl Street · Tipping Street · Lichfield Road · Pilgrim Street · St Chad's Place · Epsley's Yard

All the streets in ST16 and across Stafford.

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.