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On Second Avenue, in Wakefield Central
What it's like at WF1 2HU: every home that has sold on Second 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Second Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 16 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Second AvenueTerraced | Oct 2014 | £100,000 | 88 m² | £1,136/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Second AvenueTerraced | Apr 2001 | £46,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 4, Second AvenueTerraced | Oct 2020 | £90,000 | 58 m² | £1,552/m² | 3 |
| 5, Second AvenueTerraced | Mar 2019 | £140,500 | 78 m² | £1,801/m² | 3 |
| 6, Second AvenueTerraced | Jun 2025 | £122,500 | 57 m² | £2,149/m² | 6 |
| 7, Second AvenueTerraced | Sept 2019 | £115,000 | 65 m² | £1,769/m² | 1 |
| 8, Second AvenueTerraced | Jan 2007 | £86,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 11, Second AvenueTerraced | Jan 2008 | £110,000 | 65 m² | £1,692/m² | 2 |
| 13, Second AvenueTerraced | Feb 2020 | £141,000 | 90 m² | £1,567/m² | 2 |
| 15, Second AvenueTerraced | Jul 2019 | £135,000 | 66 m² | £2,045/m² | 4 |
| 17, Second AvenueTerraced | Mar 2009 | £90,000 | 105 m² | £857/m² | 1 |
| 19, Second AvenueTerraced | Jan 2011 | £77,000 | 66 m² | £1,167/m² | 1 |
| 25, Second AvenueTerraced | Jul 2014 | £97,000 | 65 m² | £1,492/m² | 2 |
| 27, Second AvenueTerraced | Feb 2018 | £95,000 | 66 m² | £1,439/m² | 2 |
| 29, Second AvenueTerraced | Oct 2009 | £104,000 | 65 m² | £1,600/m² | 2 |
| 33, Second AvenueTerraced | Oct 2007 | £120,000 | – | – | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Outwood, a short drive or bike ride (1.6 km), with 310k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is First Avenue, 100 m away, with a bus about every 16 minutes on weekdays (route 110); 24 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 9 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
43% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Newton Hill Community School, a few minutes' walk (200 m); 84% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Outwood Grange Academy, 1.0 km away; Attainment 8: 47.2 · 10.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Trinity Academy Cathedral (2 km) and Horbury Academy (4.2 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Heckmondwike Grammar School (11.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Aldi, 500 m away, with Penny On The Move closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is New Southgate Surgery (950 m), with Pharmacy Express the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, Newton Hill Barbers is 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 1.0 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 63 restaurants and cafés and 28 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Baxterstorey is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and The Victoria the nearest pub (600 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (30 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 407 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 44 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 50% flats and 10% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
It's growing: about 236 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Hedleys AFC, 450 m away; for exercise, Bannatynes (450 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 23 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 63 km.
29 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.
Wakefield and Rothwell constituency: Simon Lightwood MP (Labour (Co-op)), since June 2022. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 9,346 (23.0%), turnout 54%. Vote shares: Labour 44%, Reform UK 21%, Conservative 18%, Liberal Democrat 8%.
33 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 WF1 2HU →
Many neighbours rent: 37% of households rent privately and 26% socially.
It's young: 22% of residents are aged 15–29.
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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Wakefield since 2011.
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 16 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 1 of 13 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 | 0.6% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 76.6% | 94.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 22.9% | 3.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.2% | 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 81 min
Nearest: Ilkley Swimming Pool · about 57 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.