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On Oakwood Avenue, in Alverthorpe & Flanshaw
What it's like at WF2 9JS: every home that has sold on Oakwood 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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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.
7 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Oakwood Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
3 of the 96 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 4, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | May 2001 | £42,250 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8, Oakwood AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2002 | £59,999 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Oakwood AvenueSemi-detached | May 2024 | £185,000 | 70 m² | £2,643/m² | 2 |
| 20, Oakwood AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2010 | £135,000 | 84 m² | £1,607/m² | 3 |
| 22, Oakwood AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2016 | £136,000 | 76 m² | £1,789/m² | 1 |
| 26, Oakwood AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2000 | £50,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 28, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | Dec 2024 | £173,000 | 62 m² | £2,790/m² | 1 |
| 30, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | May 2026 | £183,000 | 64 m² | £2,859/m² | 2 |
| 34, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | Dec 2016 | £130,000 | 65 m² | £2,000/m² | 5 |
| 36, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | Apr 2018 | £121,950 | 77 m² | £1,584/m² | 3 |
| 40, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | Apr 2003 | £139,950 | 95 m² | £1,473/m² | 1 |
| 42, Oakwood AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2022 | £176,000 | 67 m² | £2,627/m² | 3 |
| 46, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | Mar 2025 | £220,000 | 108 m² | £2,037/m² | 3 |
| 48, Oakwood AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Oct 2023 | £110,000 | 67 m² | £1,642/m² | 1 |
| 50, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | May 2024 | £131,250 | 72 m² | £1,823/m² | 3 |
| 52, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | Nov 2021 | £140,000 | 64 m² | £2,188/m² | 1 |
The nearest station is Wakefield Westgate, a short drive or bike ride (1.7 km), with 2.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Oakwood Avenue, 150 m away, with a bus about every 27 minutes on weekdays (routes 104, OG2, OG1); 29 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is St Michael's CofE Academy, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 73% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Jerry Clay Academy (1.7 km).
The nearest secondary is Trinity Academy Cathedral, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 48.7 · 12.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Horbury Academy (3 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Heckmondwike Grammar School (9.5 km).
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 300 m away; Dewsbury Road Post Office (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Homestead (850 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (850 m).
For a haircut, Lillywhite is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 2.8 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: 6 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
Pickle Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Alverthorpe Working Mens Club the nearest pub (550 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (17 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 130 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 12% flats and 16% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
The nearest park is Wrenthorpe Park & Alverthorpe Meadows, 1.5 km away; for exercise, Total Fitness (1.0 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.4 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 22 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 62 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.
22 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 203 and 205 Flanshaw Lane | II | 190 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
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%.
14 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 WF2 9JS →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
On this street: 1 of 75 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 4 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.2% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.0% | 94.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.2% | 3.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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 79 min
Nearest: Ilkley Swimming Pool · about 54 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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 96 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.