Tew Street Wakefield

16 addresses across 2 postcodes (WF2), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41803940.

  • Sales: 14 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £188,000 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: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 9, E: 1).
  • Flood: 16 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: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • 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.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A638, carries 28,174 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 890 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Clarence Park, is about 180 m 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: It is about 25 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 16 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Trinity Medical Centre, about 670 m (0.4 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 56 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 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
20251£188,000£188,000£188,000
20221£215,000£215,000£215,000
20211£237,000£237,000£237,000
20171£120,000£120,000£120,000
20151£130,000£130,000£130,000
20131£165,000£165,000£165,000
20121£126,000£126,000£126,000
20071£153,000£153,000£153,000
20061£108,000£108,000£108,000
20051£195,000£195,000£195,000
20021£110,000£110,000£110,000
19981£47,000£47,000£47,000
All 14 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 May 20121 WF2 8DRSemi-detached£126,000
8 Mar 20071 WF2 8DRSemi-detached£153,000
24 Aug 20152 WF2 8DRDetached£130,000
1 May 19982 WF2 8DRDetached£47,000
4 Mar 20134 WF2 8DRDetached£165,000
8 Feb 20056 WF2 8DRDetached£195,000
30 Aug 20026 WF2 8DRDetached£110,000
7 Apr 200611 WF2 8DRSemi-detached£108,000
28 May 202513 WF2 8DRSemi-detached£188,000
10 Oct 201813 WF2 8DRSemi-detached£175,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Jun 201713 WF2 8DRSemi-detached£120,000
29 Sep 202215 WF2 8DRSemi-detached£215,000
2 Apr 199615 WF2 8DRSemi-detached£45,500
30 Jul 202124 WF2 8DRDetached£237,000

House prices and rents in Wakefield

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

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

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

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

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

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 88 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (8); House, detached (2); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1930-1949 (5); 1950-1966 (2); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 13,104 kWh of it on average in 2024, 15% more than the district's 11,377 kWh, and 3,232 kWh of electricity, 6% more than the district's 3,044 kWh. There are gas meters for about 96% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WF2 8DR152,347 kWh 1512,080 kWh
WF2 8DZ382,989 kWh 3612,172 kWh

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

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

Council tax

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (34% of about 700 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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

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

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

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 15 at medium risk and 38 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 62 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 62 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
WF2 8DRzone 3 0 / 1 / 14 unlikely
WF2 8DZzone 3 1 / 14 / 24 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, Culverted Trib of Chald Beck, River Calder Via Pumped Outlet.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Thornes Lane Wharfe Cso Yorkshire Water River Calder 30 123 500 m (0.3 miles)
Clayton Hill Cso Yorkshire Water Culverted Trib of Chald Beck 0 0 560 m (0.3 miles)
Kirkgate Chantry Bridge Cso Yorkshire Water River Calder Via Pumped Outlet 23 82 690 m (0.4 miles)

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

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

Coal mining

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

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

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

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 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 addresses are about 25 m above sea level.

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 8DR100%100%100%0%
WF2 8DZ100%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 2024–25890 m (0.6 miles)
Wakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Sandal and Agbrigg 202,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cathedral Retail Park Wakefield City Centre80 m
Bus or coach stationPeterson Road Wakefield1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Storage King Wakefield Car Park660 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points11 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rodney Yard GeniePoint660 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA23.7 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Trinity Medical Centre Good Jul 2025670 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Trinity - Pharmacy Plus Health670 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Space Dental260 m
HospitalPinderfields Hospital Requires improvement Mar 20242.1 km (1.3 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Avalon Clarence Gardens Good Oct 2026730 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationPolice & Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire550 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM740 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Clarence Park 11 ha180 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Thornes Park 45 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 690 m²240 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.2 ha750 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,510 m²310 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 63 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Lowe Hill motte and bailey castle, a scheduled monument, 480 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 98 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade I and 9 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lowe Hill motte and bailey castleScheduled monument480 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Calder and Hebble Navigation Warehouse on River Calder Opposite Thornes Lane Wharf Grid Ref Se 3368 1988Listed building, Grade II*600 m (0.4 miles) east
Thornes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II690 m (0.4 miles) west
Wakefield BridgeScheduled monument740 m (0.5 miles) east
Wakefield BridgeListed building, Grade I740 m (0.5 miles) east
Chapel of St Mary on East Side of Wakefield BridgeListed building, Grade I750 m (0.5 miles) east
136, WestgateListed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Sandal Castle: motte and bailey castle and shell keep castleScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fall Ings CutLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) east
Stennard IslandIsland1 km (0.6 miles) east
Old CutLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) east
Calder IslandIsland1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Park HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Old Hall WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) 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 59100
Under 55616

10 of the street's 16 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Wakefield: see them on the Wakefield page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 6 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication ResourcePrimary3–11600 m (0.4 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)
Wakefield Lawefield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11740 m (0.5 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)
CAPA College16 plus16–19760 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade B+; 0% AAB or better; progress well above average
Wakefield St Marys Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 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)
Trinity Academy Cathedral Church of EnglandSecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 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
Heart of Yorkshire Education Group16 plus16–991.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade C; 8.6% AAB or better; progress below average
The Mount Junior Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 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)
The Castle Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Outwood Primary Academy GreenhillPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) 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 CatholicPrimary4–111.5 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)
Sandal Magna Community AcademyPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) 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)
Wakefield Pinders Primary (JIN) SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) 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)

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 1.4 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 600 m (0.4 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Wakefield Day Nursery WF1 1DL Full day care 102 Not inspected yet 600 m (0.4 miles)
New Life Pre-School Daycare Centre WF1 1DL Full day care 40 Good (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 600 m (0.4 miles)
Little Learners Lawefield WF2 8ST Full day care 40 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 740 m (0.5 miles)
Toybox Private Nursery Ltd WF1 1DD Full day care 101 Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 750 m (0.5 miles)
Children's Club WF2 8QZ Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 780 m (0.5 miles)
Utopia Gymnastics Limited WF1 5PE Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Cliff Hill Day Nursery WF1 2DJ Full day care 75 Outstanding (Aug 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Kip McGrath Wakefield West WF1 2QP Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Childcare@sandal WF1 5NU Full day care 49 Good (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Total Sports @ Wakefield Grammar School Foundation WF1 2DG Out-of-school day care 56 Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

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

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

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 6 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Royal Spirits Unit 241 WF2 8DHRetailers - other140 m5 Very good17 Jan 2025
GAMEFACE WF1 5QSRetailers - other220 mAwaiting inspection
Thornes Lane Cafe WF1 5RSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good3 Jul 2025
Joan's Sandwich Bar WF2 7RBTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m5 Very good31 Mar 2026
Astar and Muscle Fitness WF2 7RERetailers - other260 m4 Good7 Feb 2024
Slimming World WF2 7RARetailers - other310 mExempt
Sainsbury's WF1 1RSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets320 m5 Very good26 Aug 2026
Sainsbury's Petrol Filling Station WF1 1RSRetailers - other320 m5 Very good25 Oct 2023
The Range WF1 1RSRetailers - other320 m3 Generally satisfactory28 Feb 2025
B & M Retail Ltd @ Unit 1a WF1 1RNRetailers - other360 m5 Very good3 Jul 2025
Cafe Pausa WF2 9SERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good29 Oct 2024
B And Q WF2 9SERetailers - other370 m5 Very good8 Jul 2026
KFC WF2 9SHTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Mar 2026
Cineworld Cinemas WF2 9SHRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Jul 2024
Nandos WF2 9SHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Jul 2026

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.

56 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences25
Anti-social behaviour6
Vehicle crime5
Other crime4
Burglary4
Other theft4
Criminal damage and arson4
Drugs2
Robbery1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Avondale Street (12); On or near Ryburn Place (8); On or near Tew Street (8); On or near Wauchope Street (7); On or near Horne Street (7).

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.

4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 4 slight. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist. 25% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202210
202300
202400
202520
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
13 Jul 2025 17:47 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A636, 30 mph Daylight
9 May 2025 17:35 Slight 1 person A636, 30 mph Daylight
25 Oct 2022 10:55 Slight 1 person A636, 30 mph Daylight
3 Dec 2021 21:00 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A636, 30 mph Dark, street lights on

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 A638 between A638 merge and A636, with 28,174 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 440 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A636 A6186 to A636 Charlesworth Way 26,235 counted 2025 1% +2% since 2015 80 m
A636 A636 Charlesworth Way to A638 16,258 estimated; counted 2021 2% -7% since 2015 300 m
A636 A636 Denby Dale Road to A638 10,881 estimated; counted 2018 1% -3% since 2015 430 m (0.3 miles)
A638 A638 merge to A636 28,174 counted 2025 1% +2% since 2015 440 m (0.3 miles)
A638 A636 Denby Dale Road to A636 Charlesworth Way 23,962 estimated; counted 2023 1% -3% 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: 287 residents in 123 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 age4540
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright35%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)45%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

Avondale Street · Cotton Street · Waldorf Way · St James's Court · Wauchope Street · Park Avenue · Horne Street · Charlesworth Way · Fox Way · Symons Street · Turner Way · Foljambe Street

All the streets in WF2 and across Wakefield.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.