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On Racca Avenue, in Knottingley
What it's like at WF11 8BB: every home that has sold on Racca Avenue since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
Sales and extensions on Racca Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 14 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Racca AvenueTerraced | Jun 2023 | £85,000 | 74 m² | £1,149/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Racca AvenueTerraced | Sept 2018 | £52,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 5, Racca AvenueTerraced | Mar 2017 | £80,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 6, Racca AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2008 | £103,000 | 78 m² | £1,321/m² | 2 |
| 10, Racca AvenueDetached | Jan 2015 | £126,500 | 83 m² | £1,524/m² | 1 |
| 11, Racca AvenueDetached | Feb 2017 | £118,000 | 64 m² | £1,844/m² | 1 |
| 12, Racca AvenueDetached | May 2026 | £190,000 | 53 m² | £3,585/m² | 3 |
| 14, Racca AvenueDetached | Jul 2007 | £160,000 | 32 m² | £5,000/m² | 1 |
| 15, Racca AvenueDetached | Apr 1995 | £25,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, Racca AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 1996 | £45,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 18, Racca AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 1996 | £48,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 19, Racca AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2026 | £187,500 | 61 m² | £3,074/m² | 3 |
| 20, Racca AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2013 | £105,000 | 50 m² | £2,100/m² | 4 |
| 21, Racca AvenueDetached | Jun 2006 | £32,970 | 69 m² | £478/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Knottingley, a short drive or bike ride (1.5 km), with 156k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Common Lane, 200 m away, with a bus about every 35 minutes on weekdays (routes 476, 148, SW3); 19 departures an hour from the 11 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 44 minutes away by public transport (18 by car).
The nearest primary school is St Botolphs CE Academy, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 65% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is England Lane Academy (0.3 km).
The nearest secondary is De Lacy Academy, 600 m away; Attainment 8: 45.6 · 6.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsburys Local, 150 m away; Racca Green Convenience & News Store (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Ash Grove (750 m), with Fast Track Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (150 m).
For a haircut, Salon 9 is 450 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 16 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 59% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 66% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 13 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
Gaf's Restaurant is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and The New Jolly the nearest pub (100 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (14 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 143 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 15% flats and 12% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
The nearest park is field, 200 m away; for exercise, Iron Wolf Gym (1.2 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 33 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 79 km.
Most households own their home, 15% rent privately.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
33 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley constituency: Yvette Cooper MP (Labour), since May 1997. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 6,630 (18.4%), turnout 48%. Vote shares: Labour 48%, Reform UK 29%, Conservative 15%, Green Party 5%.
12 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near WF11 8BB →
On this street: 0 of 9 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.8% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.1% | 94.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.2% | 3.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.1% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Nearest: Cleethorpes · about 65 min
Nearest: Albert Avenue Pools · about 46 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 14 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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