Wetherby Road Rufforth, York

1 address across 1 postcode (YO23), about 60 m long, classed as a b road. USRN 82651482.

  • Sales: 54 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £450,000 across 1 sale.
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in York costs £2,287 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Poppleton, about 3.9 km (2.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, York Community Woodland, is about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 17 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Priory Medical Group, about 4.7 km (2.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 45% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 5 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£450,000£450,000£450,000
20242£477,500£415,000£540,000
20232£642,500£600,000£685,000
20212£377,250£237,500£517,000
20201£382,500£382,500£382,500
20163£447,500£325,000£630,000
20155£392,000£246,000£430,000
20141£345,000£345,000£345,000
20131£418,000£418,000£418,000
20121£236,000£236,000£236,000
20111£350,000£350,000£350,000
20091£268,000£268,000£268,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 54)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Mar 2026OLD OAK BARN YO23 3QBOther£330,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jan 2025WHEATEN COTTAGE YO23 3QBDetached£450,000
12 Dec 2024DUNBAR YO23 3QBDetached£415,000
9 Dec 2024AMBERLEY YO23 3QBDetached£540,000
18 Jul 2023THE GABLES YO23 3QBDetached£685,000
4 Jul 2023NANTELLAN YO23 3QBDetached£600,000
17 Sep 2021HAZEL COTTAGE YO23 3QBSemi-detached£237,500
3 Jun 2021LABURNUM LODGE YO23 3QBDetached£517,000
25 Sep 2020WHEATEN COTTAGE YO23 3QBDetached£382,500
30 Nov 2016FIR TREE COTTAGE YO23 3QBDetached£630,000
30 Nov 2016LABURNUM LODGE YO23 3QBDetached£447,500
22 Jul 2016CHURCH FARM COTTAGE YO23 3QBSemi-detached£325,000
13 Nov 2015CONISTON HOUSE YO23 3QBDetached£430,000
21 Sep 2015LORIEN YO23 3QBDetached£427,500
3 Jul 20152A, NURSERY COTTAGES YO23 3QBDetached£246,000
12 Jun 20153, NURSERY COTTAGES YO23 3QBTerraced£320,000
27 Mar 2015LABURNUM LODGE YO23 3QBDetached£392,000
1 Apr 2014NANTELLAN YO23 3QBDetached£345,000
12 Apr 2013MEADOW GRANGE, 129 YO23 3QBDetached£418,000
28 Jun 2012ORCHARD CROFT YO23 3QBDetached£236,000
17 Nov 2011LORIEN YO23 3QBDetached£350,000
2 Oct 2009THE WILLOWS YO23 3QBDetached£268,000
29 Jun 2007THE WILLOWS YO23 3QBDetached£265,000
7 Mar 2007ORCHARD CROFT YO23 3QBDetached£249,950
14 Dec 2006CHURCH FARM YO23 3QBSemi-detached£360,000
9 Sep 2005RISIEM YO23 3QBDetached£225,000
27 Aug 2004131 YO23 3QBDetached£380,000
30 Jan 2004LORIEN YO23 3QBDetached£267,000
14 Jan 2004CHURCH FARM COTTAGE YO23 3QBSemi-detached£225,000
3 Nov 2003HAZEL COTTAGE YO23 3QBSemi-detached£170,000
3 Oct 2003THE WILLOWS YO23 3QBDetached£220,000
27 Sep 2002WHITE HOUSE FARM YO23 3QBDetached£275,000
26 Jul 2002THE WILLOWS YO23 3QBDetached£192,000
19 Oct 2001THE PADDOCKS YO23 3QBDetached£345,000
22 Jun 2001THE WILLOWS YO23 3QBDetached£139,000
18 May 2001WILLOW GARTH YO23 3QBSemi-detached£106,500
7 Dec 2000EAST VIEW YO23 3QBDetached£138,000
7 Aug 2000THE GABLES YO23 3QBDetached£178,500
10 Jul 2000129 YO23 3QBDetached£195,000
7 Apr 2000FIR TREE COTTAGE YO23 3QBDetached£225,950
6 Sep 1999HAZEL COTTAGE YO23 3QBSemi-detached£105,000
18 Jun 1999CARLMARTHA YO23 3QBDetached£106,000
1 Apr 1999WESTLANDS YO23 3QBDetached£180,000
10 Mar 1999LABURNUM COTTAGE YO23 3QBDetached£110,000
5 Mar 1999AMBERLEY YO23 3QBDetached£128,000
11 Dec 1998THE WILLOWS YO23 3QBDetached£95,000
27 Aug 1998ROSEDALE YO23 3QBDetached£102,500
27 Mar 1998HAZEL COTTAGE YO23 3QBSemi-detached£90,000
2 Jul 1997LABURNUM LODGE YO23 3QBDetached£160,000
1 Jul 1997WELL GARTH HOUSE YO23 3QBDetached£230,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here 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.

Council tax

What each band costs in York in 2026-27: Band D £2,287 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,525£1,779£2,033£2,287£2,795£3,304£3,812£4,574

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (22% of about 590 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.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's address is about 17 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
YO23 3QB96%0%0%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 stationsPoppleton 120,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Hammerton 57,000 journeys in 2024–257 km (4.3 miles)
York 10 million journeys in 2024–257 km (4.3 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rufforth Primary School40 m
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station3.6 km (2.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA32 km (20 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesPriory Medical Group4.7 km (2.9 miles)
PharmaciesCitywide Health-Poppleton Pharmacy3.9 km (2.4 miles)
NHS dentistsAlmsford House (Dental Surgery)4.2 km (2.6 miles)
HospitalYork Hospital7.7 km (4.8 miles)
Police stationNorth Yorkshire Police Mill House7.5 km (4.7 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Foxwood, Foxwood4.7 km (2.9 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 gardenYork Community Woodland 94 ha2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 550 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 5.9 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,280 m²1.6 km (1 mile)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Battle of Marston Moor 1644, a registered battlefield, 4.1 km (2.5 miles) west. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Battle of Marston Moor 1644Registered battlefield4.1 km (2.5 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Nursery PlantationWood500 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Sand DykeWood530 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Little PlantationWood950 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Hutton ThornWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Town PondLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Marston HillHill3.7 km (2.3 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)5.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.7205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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
65 to 6910
Under 5501

1 of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

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

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Rufforth Primary SchoolPrimary4–11110 m No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Aspens at Rufforth Primary School YO23 3QFSchool/college/university200 m5 Very good20 Jan 2026
Rufforth Park Cafe YO23 3QFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good26 Oct 2025
Tankard Inn YO23 3QFPub/bar/nightclub200 mAwaiting inspection
Old School Coffee Stop & Village Store YO23 3QBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m1 Major improvement necessary10 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.

5 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences4
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Middlewood Close (4); On or near Yew Tree Close (1).

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: 337 residents in 140 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 age5240
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright55%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle1%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)47%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)45%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

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

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • YO23 3QB: 1 address of 73 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Maythorpe · Middlewood Close · Laburnum Close · Yew Tree Close · Hawthorn Fields · Church Farm Close · The Avenue · Wetherby Road · The Ridings · Victoria Farm Close

All the streets in YO23 and across York.

What this page cannot tell you

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

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