Rodger Lane Wakefield

12 addresses across 2 postcodes (WF2), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41803386.

  • Sales: 19 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £337,660 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Wakefield cost £199,283 in August 2026 (+2.9% on a year); private rents averaged £810 a month.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 5, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Storm overflows: 4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 31 times (62 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 5 to 10% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Wakefield costs £2,297 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Outwood, about 2 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 250 m away, and Wrenthorpe Park (24 hectares) is about 360 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 54 to 59 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 12 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Outwood Park Medical Centre, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 470 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 77 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious; 2 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
20221£337,660£337,660£337,660
20191£182,000£182,000£182,000
20171£170,000£170,000£170,000
20151£238,000£238,000£238,000
20141£177,000£177,000£177,000
20091£124,000£124,000£124,000
20072£252,500£230,000£275,000
20032£75,500£73,000£78,000
20021£105,000£105,000£105,000
20014£64,248£49,000£71,500
20001£18,000£18,000£18,000
19991£50,000£50,000£50,000
All 19 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Oct 20071 WF2 0JWDetached£275,000
16 Nov 20012B WF2 0JWSemi-detached£69,995
5 Oct 20223 WF2 0JWDetached£337,660
16 Apr 20073 WF2 0JWDetached£230,000
31 Jul 200110 WF2 0JWSemi-detached£58,500
7 Mar 200010 WF2 0JWSemi-detached£18,000
18 Dec 199612 WF2 0JWSemi-detached£17,000
11 Aug 201725 WF2 0JWTerraced£170,000
28 Nov 200225 WF2 0JWTerraced£105,000
29 Mar 200125 WF2 0JWTerraced£71,500
29 Oct 199925 WF2 0JWTerraced£50,000
31 Jan 200327 WF2 0JWTerraced£78,000
9 Mar 200127 WF2 0JWTerraced£49,000
23 Oct 199827 WF2 0JWTerraced£46,500
1 Feb 201929 WF2 0JWTerraced£182,000
5 Dec 201429 WF2 0JWTerraced£177,000
5 Feb 200929 WF2 0JWTerraced£124,000
4 Apr 200329 WF2 0JWTerraced£73,000
13 Jul 201531 WF2 0JWTerraced£238,000

House prices and rents in Wakefield

A typical home in Wakefield cost £199,283 in August 2026, 2.9% more than a year before. That is 19% more than five years earlier and 54% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£314,988
Semi-detached£200,459
Terraced£159,794
Flat or maisonette£100,645
Bought by a first-time buyer£178,078

Private renters in Wakefield paid £810 a month on average in September 2026, 5.9% more than a year before. That is 31% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£579
Two bedrooms£730
Three bedrooms£874
Four or more bedrooms£1,224

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 June 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 110 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (3); House, end-terrace (2); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: before 1900 (3); 1967-1975 (2); 1900-1929 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 15,137 kWh of it on average in 2024, 33% more than the district's 11,377 kWh, and 3,859 kWh of electricity, 27% more than the district's 3,044 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WF2 0JW93,646 kWh 914,430 kWh
WF2 0JL71,701 kWh 711,542 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is WF2.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Wakefield in 2026-27: Band D £2,297 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,531£1,786£2,042£2,297£2,807£3,318£3,828£4,594

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (31% of about 1,400 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.

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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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

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

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 31 times, for 62 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Cut Beck, Balne Beck, Carr Gate Beck.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Woodside Cso Yorkshire Water Cut Beck 0 0 160 m
Wrenthorpe Lane Cso Yorkshire Water Balne Beck 15 11 200 m
Brandy Carr Road 252 Cso Yorkshire Water Carr Gate Beck 0 0 1 km (0.6 miles)
Wrenthorpe Cso Yorkshire Water Balne Beck 16 51 1 km (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

2 of the street's 2 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 5 to 10%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 12 addresses are between 54 m and 59 m above sea level (56 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
WF2 0JL100%100%100%0%
WF2 0JW100%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 stationsOutwood 310,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Wakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Wakefield Kirkgate 612,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops20 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rishworth Close Wrenthorpe40 m
Bus or coach stationWakefield Bus Station Wakefield City Centre2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Car parksFormer Pub Car Park - 5 mins from Westgag1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA20.6 km (13 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Outwood Park Medical Centre Good Sep 20161.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy150 m
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wrenthorpe Dental Care130 m
HospitalFieldhead Hospital2 km (1.2 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Lawrence Good Oct 2025690 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationNational Police Air Service HQ490 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM240 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 Unnamed 1,020 m²250 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Wrenthorpe Park 24 ha360 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 240 m²250 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,700 m²230 m
AllotmentsSt Johns Allotment Gardens 7,690 m²1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 25 hectares in all.

Landmarks

3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Snow HillHill590 m (0.4 miles) east
Quarry HillHill800 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Stoney Lane PlantationWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Ardsley ReservoirLake or reservoir3.3 km (2 miles) north-west
Stennard IslandIsland3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-east
Holme Leas CloughValley4.7 km (2.9 miles) west

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)11.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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 5940
Under 55712

5 of the street's 12 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 Wakefield: see them on the Wakefield page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 6 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Wrenthorpe AcademyPrimary4–11280 m No published inspection 59% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 52% in 2024 and 64% in 2023)
Jerry Clay AcademyPrimary4–11370 m No published inspection 90% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 27% at the higher standard (2025; 93% in 2024 and 76% in 2023)
Alverthorpe St Paul's CofE (VA) School 3-11yrs Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 69% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 47% in 2024 and 78% in 2023)
Outwood Grange AcademySecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 49.2 (47.2 in 2025 and 49.4 in 2024); 57.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 11.1% AAB or better; progress below average
Newton Hill Community SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 84% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 73% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
Wakefield Flanshaw Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 46% in 2024 and 36% in 2023)
Wakefield St Johns Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Outwood Primary Academy Ledger LanePrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18% at the higher standard (2025; 73% in 2024 and 71% in 2023)
Outwood Primary Academy KirkhamgatePrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 81% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 30% at the higher standard (2025; 83% in 2024 and 76% in 2023)
Heart of Yorkshire Education Group16 plus16–991.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade C; 8.6% AAB or better; progress below average

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

6 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 130 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Little Wrens Nursery & Pre School WF2 0NL Full day care 32 Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 130 m
Waterton Pre Schools - Wrenthorpe WF2 0LW Full day care 50 Mar 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas 300 m
Kings Camps WF2 0PD Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 690 m (0.4 miles)
Busy Bees Day Nursery at Wakefield WF1 2UN Full day care 112 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Nurtured @ Alverthorpe WF2 0AZ Full day care 67 Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Batley Road Pre-School WF2 0AE Sessional day care 25 Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 190 childminders and 13 home childcarers (nannies) in Wakefield. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 6 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
New Wheel Inn WF2 0JNPub/bar/nightclub80 m4 Good14 Mar 2023
Little Wrens Nursery And Pre School WF2 0NLSchool/college/university130 m5 Very good23 Sep 2025
Wrenthorpe Methodist Church WF2 0JROther catering premises140 m4 Good1 Mar 2023
New Pot Oil WF2 0JGPub/bar/nightclub150 m5 Very good28 Jul 2026
Wrenthorpe & Kirkhamgate Assist WF2 0JROther catering premises170 m5 Very good28 Jan 2026
The Wren Cafe WF2 0NEOther catering premises190 m5 Very good6 Mar 2025
Wrenthorpe Post Office WF2 0HRRetailers - other250 m4 Good28 May 2025
Patel's Convenience Store WF2 0LPRetailers - other280 m5 Very good13 Jan 2025
Wrenthorpe Pre School WF2 0LWSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good29 Jun 2026
ISS Facilities Services WF2 0LWSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good9 Jun 2025
Caterlink WF2 0LWSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good19 Nov 2024
Hallcliffe Primary School WF2 0QBSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Wrenthorpe Sports And Social Club WF2 0LPPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Jun 2014

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.

77 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences31
Anti-social behaviour12
Criminal damage and arson8
Public order7
Burglary5
Other theft4
Other crime4
Vehicle crime3
Drugs2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Valley Crescent (16); On or near Southfield Close (14); On or near Bunkers Hill (11); On or near Valley Drive (11); On or near Towlerton Lane (6).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 2 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 2 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist. 67% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202121
202200
202300
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
12 Feb 2024 18:07 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
23 Oct 2021 18:48 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
27 Jun 2021 12:07 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 472 residents in 229 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 age5340
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over32%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)37%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 10 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.

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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

Bunkers Hill · Ashley Close · Bowling Lane · Rishworth Close · Towlerton Lane · School Lane · Dean Close · Greenfield Way · Lyndale Drive · Greenfield Close · John's Crescent · Southfield Close

All the streets in WF2 and across Wakefield.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.