Stanley Street Wakefield

50 addresses across 3 postcodes (WF1), about 360 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41803788.

  • Sales: 35 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £150,000 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: 35 homes have an energy certificate (C: 12, D: 17, E: 6).
  • Flood: 7 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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: 1 of its postcodes is in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
  • Landfill: 3 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, NEGAS, Wakefield Holder Station, is 190 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 23 times (82 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 10 to 30% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Neil Fox Way - Battery Storage, is 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A61, carries 17,467 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • 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 Kirkgate, about 620 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 500 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 42 to 44 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 50 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Warrengate Medical Centre, about 280 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 39% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 232 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 20 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 8 of them fatal or serious; 6 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
20251£150,000£150,000£150,000
20232£207,000£166,000£248,000
20222£150,000£135,000£165,000
20212£97,500£60,000£135,000
20192£117,475£105,000£129,950
20171£68,175£68,175£68,175
20111£108,950£108,950£108,950
20073£130,000£100,000£133,000
20062£109,000£80,000£138,000
20051£131,000£131,000£131,000
20043£102,000£93,000£120,000
20032£55,250£41,500£69,000
All 35 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Mar 20222 WF1 4NBSemi-detached£165,000
14 Jan 20054 WF1 4NBSemi-detached£131,000
12 Jan 20176 WF1 4NBSemi-detached£68,175
16 Aug 20046 WF1 4NBSemi-detached£120,000
15 May 20207 WF1 4NBTerraced£117,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Jun 202310 WF1 4NBSemi-detached£166,000
13 Jul 201113 WF1 4NBTerraced£108,950
9 Sep 200213 WF1 4NBTerraced£23,571
30 Aug 199618 WF1 4NBSemi-detached£39,500
8 Sep 202520 WF1 4NBSemi-detached£150,000
1 Sep 200620 WF1 4NBSemi-detached£138,000
27 Feb 199824 WF1 4NFSemi-detached£41,500
14 Jul 200627 WF1 4NBTerraced£80,000
3 Mar 202128 WF1 4NFTerraced£60,000
26 Jul 200228 WF1 4NFTerraced£62,950
27 Feb 199829 WF1 4NBTerraced£39,950
21 Jun 201931 WF1 4NBTerraced£105,000
30 Mar 200732 WF1 4NFSemi-detached£133,000
4 Apr 200333 WF1 4NBTerraced£69,000
30 Mar 200735 WF1 4NBTerraced£100,000
30 Jun 200437 WF1 4NBTerraced£93,000
14 Oct 200337 WF1 4NBTerraced£41,500
16 Mar 200137 WF1 4NBTerraced£41,500
30 Jun 202341 WF1 4NBTerraced£248,000
9 Sep 200241 WF1 4NBTerraced£50,000
5 May 200041 WF1 4NBTerraced£43,000
20 Oct 202243 WF1 4NBTerraced£135,000
9 Sep 200443 WF1 4NBTerraced£102,000
8 Apr 202147 WF1 4NFSemi-detached£135,000
12 Aug 200247 WF1 4NFSemi-detached£30,875
21 Aug 201949 WF1 4NFSemi-detached£129,950
12 Aug 199849 WF1 4NFSemi-detached£37,500
21 Aug 200751 WF1 4NFSemi-detached£130,000
30 May 200251 WF1 4NFSemi-detached£52,500
6 Jun 2022PLEASANT FISHERIES WF1 4NBOther£88,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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.

35 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (19); House, mid-terrace (11); House, end-terrace (5). Built: 1930-1949 (23); 1950-1966 (5); 1900-1929 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (social) (13); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (35 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 12,551 kWh of it on average in 2024, 14% more than the district's 10,995 kWh, and 3,219 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 91% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WF1 4NB312,216 kWh 3110,591 kWh
WF1 4NF142,837 kWh 1310,125 kWh
WF1 4LZ25 6 Economy 73,327 kWh 2013,006 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 WF1.

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 (74% of about 1,290 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.

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.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 2 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Neil Fox Way - Battery Storage Wakefield 22/01460/FUL Battery storage 99.9 MW Planning application made Jul 2022 1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Neil Fox Way - Battery Storage Wakefield X4725/W/25/3368025 Battery storage 99.9 MW Planning application made Aug 2025 1.9 km (1.2 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 11 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
WF1 4NBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 7 unlikely
WF1 4NFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 1 unlikely
WF1 4LZnot in 2 or 3 3 / 1 / 3 unlikely

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

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 23 times, for 82 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Calder Via Pumped Outlet.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Kirkgate Chantry Bridge Cso Yorkshire Water River Calder Via Pumped Outlet 23 82 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

1 of the street's 3 postcodes is in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground. 2 more are elsewhere in the coalfield, at low risk.

Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.

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 10 to 30%: 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.

By postcode centre: 5 to 10% (1); 10 to 30% (3).

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

3 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 190 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
NEGAS, Wakefield Holder Station Vicarage Street, Wakefield Not recorded Inert, industrial, commercial 190 m
Wakefield Holder Station Vicarage Street, Wakefield 1977 Inert, commercial 230 m
Windhill Quarry Queen Elizabeth Road, Wakefield 1960 to 1969 Commercial, household 440 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

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 50 addresses are between 42 m and 44 m above sea level (43 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
WF1 4LZ100%100%100%0%
WF1 4NB100%100%100%0%
WF1 4NF100%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 Kirkgate 612,000 journeys in 2024–25620 m (0.4 miles)
Wakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Sandal and Agbrigg 202,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Bus stops19 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 56 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shepley Street East Moor100 m
Bus or coach stationPeterson Road Wakefield330 m
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest George St Car Park510 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station210 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA23.2 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. 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Warrengate Medical Centre Good May 2016280 m
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Warrengate - Pharmacy Plus Health250 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery300 m
HospitalPinderfields Hospital Requires improvement Mar 2024920 m (0.6 miles)
Care homes5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Earls Lodge Care Home Good Nov 2025450 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationAsk the Police920 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 19-21 Kirkgate Halifax540 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,220 m²500 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 1.6 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 330 m²250 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Park Lodge Lane Allotments 3.7 ha260 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 2.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Old Cathedral Grammar School, a listed building (Grade II*), 620 m (0.4 miles) west. 86 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Old Cathedral Grammar SchoolListed building, Grade II*620 m (0.4 miles) west
Cathedral Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade I630 m (0.4 miles) west
53 and 55, NorthgateListed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) west
Chapel of St Mary on East Side of Wakefield BridgeListed building, Grade I850 m (0.5 miles) south
Wakefield BridgeScheduled monument850 m (0.5 miles) south
Lowe Hill motte and bailey castleScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Thornes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Park HillHill460 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Old CutLake or reservoir950 m (0.6 miles) south
Stennard IslandIsland1 km (0.6 miles) south
Fall Ings CutLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Old Hall WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Low WoodWood1.5 km (1 mile) 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)14.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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 5910
Under 554850

2 of the street's 50 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), 5 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
Outwood Primary Academy GreenhillPrimary3–11200 m No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 72% in 2023)
Wakefield St Marys Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary2–11400 m (0.2 miles) No published inspection 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 34% in 2023)
St Austin's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11470 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 51% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 47% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
Wakefield Pinders Primary (JIN) SchoolPrimary3–11520 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 47% in 2023)
Outwood Primary Academy Park HillPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
Outwood Academy City FieldsSecondary11–16890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 44.5 (38.8 in 2025 and 38.6 in 2024); 52.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
CAPA College16 plus16–191 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade B+; 0% AAB or better; progress well above average
Heart of Yorkshire Education Group16 plus16–991.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade C; 8.6% AAB or better; progress below average
Wakefield St Johns Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) 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)
Wakefield Lawefield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 64% in 2024 and 50% in 2023)
Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication ResourcePrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 39% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
Newton Hill Community SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 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)

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

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1 km (0.6 miles); the nearest is 300 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Trinity Pre-School WF1 4LH Sessional day care 28 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 300 m
GMI Education Centre Tutoring WF1 3PD Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 490 m (0.3 miles)
Pinders Primary School Tutoring WF1 3SQ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 500 m (0.3 miles)
Childcare @ St Swithun's WF1 4RR Sessional day care 32 Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 720 m (0.4 miles)
Utopia Gymnastics Limited WF1 5PE Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 770 m (0.5 miles)
Future Einsteins College Grove WF1 3RZ Full day care 74 Outstanding (Feb 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 800 m (0.5 miles)
Toybox Private Nursery Ltd WF1 1DD Full day care 101 Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 880 m (0.5 miles)
Abacus Nursery WF1 4DG Full day care 166 Good (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 920 m (0.6 miles)
Nurtured @ Wakefield WF1 3RY Full day care 76 Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 940 m (0.6 miles)
Wakefield Day Nursery WF1 1DL Full day care 102 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 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 5 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
Polo Market WF1 4NNRetailers - other100 m4 Good21 Mar 2025
Freshly Market/Racco's Pizza & Grill WF1 4NNRetailers - other110 m5 Very good23 Oct 2025
Rozlia International Groceries WF1 4QHRetailers - other120 m5 Very good24 Sep 2018
Lal's Best One Superstore WF1 4NLRetailers - other140 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Feb 2026
Manchester Superstores WF1 4NLRetailers - other140 m5 Very good29 Apr 2025
Connect Cafe WF1 4XARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good17 Dec 2025
Cheeky Monkeys WF1 4LARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good15 Apr 2026
Eastmoor Post Office/Quidz In WF1 4LRRetailers - other240 m5 Very good13 Dec 2019
Happy Frydays WF1 4LRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good21 Sep 2026
Freshco WF1 4JZRetailers - other270 m3 Generally satisfactory31 Mar 2026
Roshan's WF1 4JZTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m4 Good11 Aug 2026
Asian Wok Wakey WF1 4JZTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good22 Oct 2026
Here For You WF1 4JZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good9 May 2024
Star East Chinese Takeaway WF1 4DUTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Mar 2026
Fox And Grapes WF1 4LHPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good24 Sep 2015

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.

232 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences93
Shoplifting24
Anti-social behaviour21
Other theft15
Criminal damage and arson15
Drugs13
Public order13
Burglary10
Other crime8
Vehicle crime7
Robbery6
Possession of weapons5
Theft from the person1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Earl Street (75); On or near Back Mount Pleasant (33); On or near Marsland Terrace (27); On or near Park Lodge Grove (21); On or near Stanley Street (18).

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.

20 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 8 serious and 12 slight, in which 9 people were seriously hurt. 6 involved a pedestrian; 4 involved a cyclist; 4 involved a child under 16. 20% happened in the dark, and 25% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202121
202263
202363
202431
202530
The most recent 10 of 20
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
17 Oct 2025 16:30 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
7 Jun 2025 15:25 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
20 Apr 2025 14:15 Slight 2 people: 1 child Minor road, 40 mph Daylight
2 Dec 2024 14:10 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
22 Oct 2024 15:00 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
3 Jun 2024 12:10 Slight 1 person Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
22 Dec 2023 11:12 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
7 Jul 2023 23:16 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
2 Jun 2023 08:41 Serious 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
11 May 2023 12:55 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Wet road

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

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A61 between A638 intersection and A642, with 17,467 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 240 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A61 A638 intersection to A642 17,467 estimated; counted 2020 2% 240 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

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 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,311 residents in 432 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 age3240
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)39%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented30%17%
Private rented31%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications34%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)68%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all10%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all 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

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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

Park Lodge Grove · Greenwood Road · Back Mount Pleasant · Warren Court · Stanley Road · Marsland Terrace · Back Grantley Street · Johnston Street · Upper Warrengate · Marsland Avenue · Marsland Place · Earl Street

All the streets in WF1 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.