Rydal Crescent Wakefield

9 addresses across 2 postcodes (WF2), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41803458.

  • Sales: 4 recorded sales since 1995; in 2007 the median was £115,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 3 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 2).
  • 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 Wakefield costs £2,297 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wakefield Westgate, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Wrenthorpe Park, is about 340 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 36 to 39 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 9 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Alverthorpe, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 55% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 142 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
20071£115,000£115,000£115,000
20032£67,500£58,000£77,000
19961£30,000£30,000£30,000
Most recent sales (4)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
8 Jul 20072 WF2 9HHTerraced£115,000
13 Jun 20038 WF2 9HHTerraced£77,000
30 Apr 20034 WF2 9HHSemi-detached£58,000
29 Nov 19961 WF2 9HHSemi-detached£30,000

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 February 2021 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

3 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 89 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (2); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1950-1966 (2); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (2); rented (private) (1).

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (90% of about 610 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, 0 at medium risk and 2 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
WF2 9HHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
WF2 9HQnot in 2 or 3 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 9 addresses are between 36 m and 39 m above sea level (37 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 9HH100%100%100%0%
WF2 9HQ100%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 stationsWakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Wakefield Kirkgate 612,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Outwood 310,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 49 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Flanshaw School80 m
Bus or coach stationWakefield Bus Station Wakefield City Centre1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Car park-Wakefield700 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station750 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA22 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alverthorpe450 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots570 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery870 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalFieldhead Hospital2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationNational Police Air Service HQ1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machinesWestgate Mini Market1.1 km (0.7 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wrenthorpe Park 24 ha340 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 930 m²270 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha260 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.0 ha890 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 53 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Thornes Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.7 km (1 mile) south-east. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Thornes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Lowe Hill motte and bailey castleScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Snow HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Lindale HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Thornes CutLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Calder IslandIsland2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Stoney Lane PlantationWood3.1 km (1.9 miles) north
Holme Leas CloughValley4.5 km (2.8 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)10.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

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
55 to 5910
Under 5589

1 of the street's 9 addresses is 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), 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
Wakefield Flanshaw Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary3–11150 m Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–11660 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Alverthorpe St Paul's CofE (VA) School 3-11yrs Church of EnglandPrimary3–11770 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wakefield Lawefield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Heart of Yorkshire Education Group16 plus16–991.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Wakefield St Johns Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
CAPA College16 plus16–191.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Jerry Clay AcademyPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Wakefield Snapethorpe Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wrenthorpe AcademyPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Trinity Academy Cathedral Church of EnglandSecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jun 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; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
ISS Facilities Services WF2 0ASSchool/college/university100 m5 Very good25 Nov 2025
Breakfast Club WF2 0ASSchool/college/university100 mAwaiting inspection
Slimming World WF2 9EXRetailers - other140 mExempt
West Villa WF2 0ABHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good28 Jul 2026
Wasdale Children's Resource Centre WF2 9EXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m5 Very good11 Jan 2017
Thirlmere Stores WF2 9ERRetailers - other200 m5 Very good15 May 2015
RS Butties WF2 9ERTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good28 Oct 2025
Aldi WF2 0AERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets220 m5 Very good19 May 2025
NAV Mini Market (off license) WF2 0AERetailers - other220 m4 Good3 Jul 2024
The Miners Lamp WF2 0EEPub/bar/nightclub320 mAwaiting inspection
Sun Bo WF2 0AGTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Al Fresco WF2 9AATakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory28 Jan 2026
Jav's Authentic Indian Cuisine WF2 9PXTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Sainsburys WF2 9PPRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Aug 2026
Kasim's WF2 9PPTakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Feb 2025

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.

142 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences78
Anti-social behaviour15
Criminal damage and arson11
Other theft10
Public order7
Other crime7
Vehicle crime5
Burglary4
Possession of weapons2
Robbery1
Theft from the person1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Flanshaw Road (55); On or near Rydal Drive (13); On or near Meadow Croft (11); On or near Derwent Road (10); On or near Windermere Road (10).

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: 349 residents in 118 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3940
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)55%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented33%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%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)18%34%
No qualifications36%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

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

Borrowdale Road · Rydal Drive · Ennerdale Road · Wasdale Crescent · Keswick Drive · Eskdale Road · Hawthorne Grove · Meadow Lane · Hawthorne Terrace · Windermere Road · Wasdale Road · Derwent Road

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.
  • 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.