Tadman Street Wakefield

22 addresses across 3 postcodes (WF1), about 470 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 41803900.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2003 the median was £185,000 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.
  • Flood: 6 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.
  • Storm overflows: 3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 53 times (205 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 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A61, carries 47,285 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 88% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wakefield Kirkgate, about 750 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 290 m away, and Clarence Park (11 hectares) is about 630 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 24 to 25 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Maybush Medical Centre, about 370 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 61% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 23 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often vehicle crime.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious; 1 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
20031£185,000£185,000£185,000
20021£115,000£115,000£115,000
All 6 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Nov 20241 WF1 5QUOther£375,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Apr 20151 WF1 5QUOther£135,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 20223 WF1 5QUOther£1,207,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Sep 200220 WF1 5RGDetached£115,000
25 Oct 2024UNIT A WF1 5QUOther£495,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Nov 2003UNIT C WF1 5QUDetached£185,000

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Gas and electricity use

None of the street's postcodes has the 5 or more domestic meters needed for figures to be published.

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (72% of about 790 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.

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 1.6 km (1 mile)
Neil Fox Way - Battery Storage Wakefield X4725/W/25/3368025 Battery storage 99.9 MW Planning application made Aug 2025 1.6 km (1 mile)

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 17 September 2026 to 18 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 27 August 2026: YORKSHIRE WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the carriageway (minor works)

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 15 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 1 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 1 low and 0 very low.

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

Flood zone for planning: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WF1 5QUzone 2 0 / 0 / 5 unlikely
WF1 5RGzone 3 0 / 4 / 4 unlikely
WF1 5RNzone 3 0 / 2 / 6 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

3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 53 times, for 205 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Calder, River Calder Via Pumped Outlet, Culverted Trib of Chald Beck.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Thornes Lane Wharfe Cso Yorkshire Water River Calder 30 123 140 m
Kirkgate Chantry Bridge Cso Yorkshire Water River Calder Via Pumped Outlet 23 82 350 m
Clayton Hill Cso Yorkshire Water Culverted Trib of Chald Beck 0 0 940 m (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.

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 22 addresses are between 24 m and 25 m above sea level (25 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 5QU100%100%100%0%
WF1 5RG100%88%88%0%
WF1 5RN100%88%88%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 2024–25750 m (0.5 miles)
Sandal and Agbrigg 202,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Wakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chancel Road Belle Isle200 m
Bus or coach stationPeterson Road Wakefield1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Storage King Wakefield Car Park700 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station330 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA24.2 km (15 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Maybush Medical Centre Good Oct 2018370 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Belle Isle Pharmacy370 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Space Dental450 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalPinderfields Hospital Requires improvement Mar 20242.2 km (1.4 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Broxbourne House Good Mar 2023380 m
Police stationPolice & Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM770 m (0.5 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 3,200 m²290 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Clarence Park 11 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 690 m²260 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.2 ha730 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha700 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 17 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Calder and Hebble Navigation Warehouse on River Calder Opposite Thornes Lane Wharf Grid Ref Se 3368 1988, a listed building (Grade II*), 220 m north-east. 25 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Calder and Hebble Navigation Warehouse on River Calder Opposite Thornes Lane Wharf Grid Ref Se 3368 1988Listed building, Grade II*220 m north-east
Wakefield BridgeListed building, Grade I510 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Wakefield BridgeScheduled monument510 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Chapel of St Mary on East Side of Wakefield BridgeListed building, Grade I520 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Lowe Hill motte and bailey castleScheduled monument890 m (0.6 miles) west
Thornes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Sandal Castle: motte and bailey castle and shell keep castleScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fall Ings CutLake or reservoir510 m (0.3 miles) east
Stennard IslandIsland600 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Old CutLake or reservoir620 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Park HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Calder IslandIsland1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Old Hall WoodWood1.7 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)12.54010
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
55 to 59211
Under 552011

2 of the street's 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 11 from railways, 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
Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication ResourcePrimary3–11490 m (0.3 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)
The Castle Nursery SchoolNursery2–5940 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Wakefield St Marys Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 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)
Sandal Magna Community AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
CAPA College16 plus16–191.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade B+; 0% AAB or better; progress well above average
Wakefield Lawefield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) 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)
St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 49.1 (46.3 in 2025 and 46.5 in 2024); 51.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
Trinity Academy Cathedral Church of EnglandSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 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 GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 50.9 (48.7 in 2025 and 47.0 in 2024); 53.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
Outwood Primary Academy GreenhillPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) 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)
St Austin's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) 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)
Heart of Yorkshire Education Group16 plus16–991.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade C; 8.6% AAB or better; progress below average
The Mount Junior Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 47% 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

8 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 750 m (0.5 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Utopia Gymnastics Limited WF1 5PE Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 750 m (0.5 miles)
Childcare@sandal WF1 5NU Full day care 49 Good (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 770 m (0.5 miles)
Wakefield Day Nursery WF1 1DL Full day care 102 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
New Life Pre-School Daycare Centre WF1 1DL Full day care 40 Good (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Toybox Private Nursery Ltd WF1 1DD Full day care 101 Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Children's Club WF2 8QZ Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Little Learners Lawefield WF2 8ST Full day care 40 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Stagecoach Wakefield WF2 6EQ Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.5 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
The Wharf WF1 5RFPub/bar/nightclub70 m5 Very good26 Mar 2024
Traditional Leisure WF1 5RFMobile caterer110 m5 Very good14 Dec 2023
Dotty Bridal WF1 5RHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good17 Feb 2026
Rainbow Playrooms WF1 5RDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good17 Jul 2026
The Continental Taphouse WF1 5FYPub/bar/nightclub300 mAwaiting inspection
Thornes Lane Cafe WF1 5RSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good3 Jul 2025
Slimming World WF2 7RARetailers - other330 mExempt
Joan's Sandwich Bar WF2 7RBTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good31 Mar 2026
Bridge Inn WF1 5RTPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good4 Mar 2025
The Distillery Bar WF1 5FYPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good29 Mar 2023
Forged Spirits WF1 5FYPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good1 May 2024
Vinyl Cafe /Vera, Corn Mill WF1 5FYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good6 Mar 2025
GAMEFACE WF1 5QSRetailers - other350 mAwaiting inspection
Wakefield Baptist Church WF1 5JYOther catering premises380 m5 Very good27 Feb 2024
Broxbourne House WF1 5LEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good2 Oct 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.

23 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Vehicle crime11
Violence and sexual offences5
Burglary2
Public order2
Robbery1
Anti-social behaviour1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bus/Coach Station (23).

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.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 1 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a motorcyclist. 50% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202321
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
21 Nov 2023 17:00 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
12 Aug 2023 11:30 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 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

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A61 between Bridge Street and Ings Road/Kirkgate inersection, with 47,285 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 420 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A61 Bridge Street to Ings Road/Kirkgate inersection 47,285 counted 2025 1% -14% since 2015 420 m (0.3 miles)
A636 A6186 to A636 Charlesworth Way 26,235 counted 2025 1% +2% since 2015 460 m (0.3 miles)

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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 324 residents in 131 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 age3340
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)61%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented33%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

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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.

  • WF1 5QU: 14 addresses of 15 in the postcode
  • WF1 5RG: 7 addresses of 9 in the postcode
  • WF1 5RN: 1 address of 12 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Calder Street · Thornes Lane Wharf · Commercial Street · Church Street · Mark Street · Navigation Walk · Thornleigh Avenue · Belle Isle Drive · Temple Court · Seymour Street · Bridge Street · Belle Isle Crescent

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.