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On Blackwood Avenue, in Wood End
What it's like at WV11 1EB: every home that has sold on Blackwood 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Blackwood Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 39 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 71, Blackwood AvenueTerraced | May 2008 | £88,000 | – | – | 1 |
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From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Wolverhampton, a drive away (3.4 km), with 5.2m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Harper Avenue, 50 m away, with a bus about every 27 minutes on weekdays (routes 65, 71); 30 departures an hour from the 15 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Long Knowle Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 73% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Whitgreave Primary School (1.6 km).
The nearest secondary is Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy, 1.2 km away; Attainment 8: 40.4 · 4.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Moseley Park (4 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Wolverhampton Girls' High School (4.7 km) and Queen Mary's High School (8.2 km).
The nearest supermarket is Lidl, 400 m away, with Essington Dispensing Chemists closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Keats Grove Surgery (700 m), with Essington Dispensing Chemists the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Kelly J's is 450 m away.
The nearest full A&E is New Cross Hospital, 1.1 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 66% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 8 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
The Baburchi Restaurant is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and Red Lion the nearest pub (450 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (14 of them).
Crime is around the national middle: about 80 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 15% flats and 10% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 46% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Scotlands Open Space, 1.2 km away; for exercise, PureGym (1.8 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 29 km away.
Most households own their home, 14% rent privately.
The nearest university is University of Wolverhampton, 3.7 km away (TEF Bronze).
26 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.
Wolverhampton North East constituency: Sureena Brackenridge MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 5,422 (16.3%), turnout 47%. Vote shares: Labour 43%, Conservative 27%, Reform UK 23%, Green Party 4%.
11 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 WV11 1EB →
On this street: 0 of 35 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 5 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.4% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.7% | 92.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.9% | 7.3% | 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: Pingles Leisure Centre · about 41 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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.
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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 39 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.