Wild's Yard Wakefield

1 address across 1 postcode (WF1), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41805168.

  • Flood: 5 addresses on its postcodes are 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 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 340 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 300 m away, and Clarence Park (11 hectares) is about 800 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 26 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 Trinity Medical Centre, about 100 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 470 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 10% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 408 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 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 (81% of about 890 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: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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

Roadworks

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

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 35 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 26 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
WF1 1NJ100%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 2024–25340 m
Wakefield Westgate 2.3 million journeys in 2024–25920 m (0.6 miles)
Sandal and Agbrigg 202,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 58 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kirkgate Wakefield110 m
Bus or coach stationPeterson Road Wakefield330 m
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Storage King Wakefield Car Park90 m
EV charging points9 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Turton Street GeniePoint280 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA23.5 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. 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 Trinity Medical Centre100 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kingfisher Chemist LTD80 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery360 m
HospitalPinderfields Hospital1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationPolice & Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire500 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM80 m

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 9,100 m²300 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Clarence Park 11 ha800 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 330 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.8 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Park Lodge Lane Allotments 3.7 ha500 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Wakefield Bridge, a scheduled monument, 410 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 118 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade I and 12 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wakefield BridgeScheduled monument410 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Wakefield BridgeListed building, Grade I410 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Chapel of St Mary on East Side of Wakefield BridgeListed building, Grade I420 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Cathedral Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade I450 m (0.3 miles) north-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) south
Lowe Hill motte and bailey castleScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Thornes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Old CutLake or reservoir670 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Stennard IslandIsland680 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Park HillHill680 m (0.4 miles) east
Fall Ings CutLake or reservoir820 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Old Hall WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) east
Calder IslandIsland1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-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)14.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
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 Wakefield: see them on the Wakefield page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Wakefield St Marys Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary2–11430 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
CAPA College16 plus16–19630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Outwood Primary Academy GreenhillPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 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
St Austin's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Wakefield Pinders Primary (JIN) SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Wakefield Lawefield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Heart of Yorkshire Education Group16 plus16–991.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication ResourcePrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Outwood Primary Academy Park HillPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wakefield St Johns Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Outwood Academy City FieldsSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Castle Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Chimes Sandwich Bar WF1 1UHTakeaway/sandwich shop30 m5 Very good10 Nov 2023
Kirkgate Post Office & Newsagents WF1 1UERetailers - other80 m5 Very good15 Feb 2022
Chunky Chicken WF1 1UDTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m5 Very good22 Feb 2024
Lotus Dragon WF1 1UDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m1 Major improvement necessary25 Mar 2026
Eva's Kitchen WF1 1UDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 mAwaiting inspection
Dungeons and Donuts WF1 1UDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Kaiju Martial Arts WF1 1UARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m1 Major improvement necessary27 Apr 2026
Luis Bar @ Fernandes Brewery WF1 1UAPub/bar/nightclub100 m4 Good7 Jul 2026
The Pizza Yard WF1 1UFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m4 Good20 Mar 2025
Wakefield Mini Market WF1 1TURetailers - other130 m4 Good7 Mar 2024
Double Broz WF1 1NRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good18 Dec 2025
Kurdistan Restaurant WF1 1TURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m4 Good17 Sep 2026
Millat Food Limited WF1 1TURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good31 Mar 2026
Dosa Village WF1 1TSTakeaway/sandwich shop150 m4 Good8 Apr 2025
New Wells Assisted Living Catering WF1 1NJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m5 Very good11 Mar 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.

408 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences126
Shoplifting58
Public order46
Anti-social behaviour42
Drugs30
Other theft22
Criminal damage and arson19
Robbery17
Burglary16
Other crime10
Vehicle crime7
Possession of weapons6
Bicycle theft5
Theft from the person4

Most of these are attached to: On or near West Parade Street (85); On or near Wonder Street (80); On or near Avison Yard (75); On or near William Street (34); On or near Supermarket (27).

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: 468 residents in 243 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3240
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)10%61%
Owned outright5%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented39%17%
Private rented50%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)60%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)73%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

  • WF1 1NJ: 1 address of 48 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Charlotte Street · Harrison Street · Trinity Church Gate · Cass Yard · New Wells · Wonder Street · Thornhill Street · Union Square · Thornhill Street · Grove Street · Grove Road · Kirkgate

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.
  • 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.