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On The Rowick, in Wakefield St John's
What it's like at WF2 9SY: every home that has sold on The Rowick 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on The Rowick; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 23 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, The RowickTerraced | Aug 2022 | £197,500 | 104 m² | £1,899/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, The RowickDetached | Oct 2019 | £206,000 | 123 m² | £1,675/m² | 3 |
| 3, The RowickTerraced | Aug 2010 | £140,000 | 110 m² | £1,273/m² | 2 |
| 4, The RowickDetached | Oct 2025 | £190,000 | 109 m² | £1,743/m² | 3 |
| 5, The RowickTerraced | Oct 2022 | £215,000 | 101 m² | £2,129/m² | 2 |
| 6, The RowickTerraced | Feb 2025 | £230,000 | 120 m² | £1,917/m² | 3 |
| 7, The RowickTerraced | Mar 2003 | £144,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 8, The RowickSemi-detached | May 2007 | £182,500 | 104 m² | £1,755/m² | 2 |
| 9, The RowickTerraced | Feb 2003 | £126,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 10, The RowickSemi-detached | Nov 2002 | £148,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, The RowickSemi-detached | Jul 2020 | £177,500 | 128 m² | £1,387/m² | 2 |
| 14, The RowickFlat | Apr 2003 | £90,000 | 62 m² | £1,452/m² | 1 |
| 16, The RowickFlat | Jul 2020 | £89,000 | 62 m² | £1,435/m² | 2 |
| 18, The RowickFlat | Apr 2003 | £82,000 | 62 m² | £1,323/m² | 1 |
| 20, The RowickSemi-detached · company-owned | Feb 2021 | £72,500 | 68 m² | £1,066/m² | 3 |
| 22, The RowickFlat | Dec 2023 | £112,000 | 65 m² | £1,723/m² | 3 |
| 24, The RowickFlat | Dec 2019 | £92,475 | 64 m² | £1,445/m² | 2 |
| 26, The RowickFlat | Mar 2009 | £124,995 | – | – | 2 |
| 28, The RowickFlat | Jun 2016 | £80,000 | 69 m² | £1,159/m² | 2 |
| 30, The RowickFlat | May 2025 | £116,000 | 65 m² | £1,785/m² | 5 |
| 32, The RowickFlat | Mar 2003 | £74,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 34, The RowickFlat | Aug 2017 | £87,000 | 64 m² | £1,359/m² | 2 |
| 36, The RowickFlat | Nov 2021 | £115,000 | 62 m² | £1,855/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Wakefield Westgate, about a 10-minute walk (800 m), with 2.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Henry Street, 100 m away, with a bus about every 30 minutes on weekdays (routes 104, OG1); 94 departures an hour from the 17 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 11 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is Wakefield Lawefield Primary School, a few minutes' walk (500 m); 53% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Trinity Academy Cathedral, 1.0 km away; Attainment 8: 48.7 · 12.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Horbury Academy (3.8 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Heckmondwike Grammar School (10.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Poundstretcher, 150 m away; Dokrat News (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Homestead (300 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, The Suntan Centre is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 1.4 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: 52 restaurants and cafés and 23 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
McDonalds Restaurant is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and St Michaels Snooker Club the nearest pub (200 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (14 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 148 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 81 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 25% flats and 12% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
It's growing: about 157 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Thornes Park, 850 m away; for exercise, The Gym (200 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 22 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 63 km.
41 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%.
37 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 9SY →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
Most households own their home, 30% rent privately.
It's young: 20% 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 23 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 15 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 | 0.7% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.4% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 88.3% | 94.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 7.2% | 3.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 3.0% | 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 81 min
Nearest: Ilkley Swimming Pool · about 56 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.