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On Croft Avenue, in Altofts
What it's like at WF6 2JW: every home that has sold on Croft 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Croft Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 42 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Croft AvenueTerraced | Oct 2020 | £130,000 | 70 m² | £1,857/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Croft AvenueTerraced | Nov 2011 | £79,000 | 74 m² | £1,068/m² | 5 |
| 5, Croft AvenueTerraced | Jun 1997 | £35,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 7, Croft AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2004 | £92,500 | – | – | 3 |
| 8, Croft AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2007 | £117,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 9, Croft AvenueTerraced | Mar 2021 | £132,500 | 75 m² | £1,767/m² | 1 |
| 10, Croft AvenueTerraced | Dec 1997 | £32,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Croft AvenueTerraced | Aug 2022 | £140,000 | 73 m² | £1,918/m² | 2 |
| 13, Croft AvenueTerraced | Mar 2025 | £165,000 | 89 m² | £1,854/m² | 5 |
| 14, Croft AvenueTerraced | Jul 2007 | £115,000 | 71 m² | £1,620/m² | 2 |
| 15, Croft AvenueTerraced | Nov 2023 | £145,000 | 73 m² | £1,986/m² | 1 |
| 16, Croft AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2019 | £135,000 | 81 m² | £1,667/m² | 5 |
| 18, Croft AvenueTerraced | May 2018 | £138,000 | 88 m² | £1,568/m² | 2 |
| 19, Croft AvenueTerraced | Feb 2025 | £160,000 | 88 m² | £1,818/m² | 5 |
| 21, Croft AvenueTerraced | Aug 2021 | £115,000 | 78 m² | £1,474/m² | 1 |
| 22, Croft AvenueTerraced | Mar 2025 | £185,000 | 77 m² | £2,403/m² | 3 |
| 23, Croft AvenueTerraced | Sept 2022 | £130,000 | 117 m² | £1,111/m² | 1 |
| 24, Croft AvenueTerraced | Nov 2023 | £175,000 | 77 m² | £2,273/m² | 2 |
| 25, Croft AvenueTerraced | Jan 2000 | £42,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 29, Croft AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2023 | £200,000 | 124 m² | £1,613/m² | 2 |
| 30, Croft AvenueTerraced | Dec 2025 | £178,000 | 87 m² | £2,046/m² | 4 |
| 32, Croft AvenueTerraced | Oct 2016 | £79,500 | 70 m² | £1,136/m² | 2 |
| 33, Croft AvenueTerraced | Oct 1999 | £40,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 36, Croft AvenueTerraced | Nov 2025 | £139,500 | 71 m² | £1,965/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Normanton, about a 5-minute walk (550 m), with 202k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Drury Lane, 150 m away, with a bus about every 33 minutes on weekdays (routes 187, 147); 15 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Lee Brigg Infant and Nursery School, a few minutes' walk (250 m).
The nearest secondary is Outwood Academy Freeston, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 44.6 · 10.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Oulton Academy (3.8 km).
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Lidl, 750 m away, with Greenhalgh Butchers closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Patience Lane Surgery (200 m), with M&A Pharmacies the closest pharmacy (150 m).
For a haircut, The Beach Hut is 700 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 4.4 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 7 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Chilli Pepper (Wakefield) is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and The Brig WMC the nearest pub (200 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 52 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 5% flats and 29% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Newland Park, 1.1 km away; for exercise, Normanton Leisure (750 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 23 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 69 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 42% of households own their home outright.
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.
17 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%.
15 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 WF6 2JW →
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 42 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 31 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.6% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.5% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.8% | 94.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.3% | 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 73 min
Nearest: Albert Avenue Pools · 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.
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