Wakenshaw Road
County Durham, England
Reality check: Recorded indicators: area-safety proxy 40/100; transport-stop proximity 40/100; daily amenities 30/100; flood mapping 90/100; green-space proximity 76/100. These indicators do not establish personal suitability or future property returns.
Compare Profile Scores
Each profile applies different weights to the available indicators; it does not determine personal suitability.
Available components: liquidity proxy 90/100; market proxy 65/100. Recorded median sale price: £119,950 from 47 transactions. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
Available components: area-safety proxy 40/100; family indicators 60/100; green-space proximity 76/100; daily amenities 30/100. Data unavailable: energy. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Safety 30%, Family indicators 30%, Environment 20%, Amenities 10%, Energy 10%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: transport-stop proximity 40/100; amenity proximity 60/100; daily amenities 30/100; market proxy 65/100. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Transport 35%, Walkability 30%, Amenities 25%, Market 10%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: liquidity proxy 90/100; market proxy 65/100. Recorded median sale price: £119,950 from 47 transactions. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Transaction activity 50%, Market 50%; no return forecast. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: area-safety proxy 40/100; green-space proximity 76/100; daily amenities 30/100; amenity proximity 60/100. Data unavailable: energy. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Safety 25%, Environment 25%, Amenities 20%, Energy 15%, Walkability 15%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: transport-stop proximity 40/100; daily amenities 30/100; area-safety proxy 40/100. Recorded median sale price: £119,950 from 47 transactions. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Affordability 40%, Transport 25%, Amenities 20%, Safety 15%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Flood mapping
The mapped street point is classified as Zone 1 in the Environment Agency planning dataset. This covers river and sea flooding; it does not assess every property or surface-water risk.
Dataset revision: 2026-05-20. This is the dataset revision date, not a property inspection date.
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Score 40/100. This is an LSOA incident-count proxy, not a population-adjusted crime rate.
How Life Works Here
Wakenshaw Road is located in County Durham, near Durham. The associated LSOA area has 225 recorded incidents from 2025-08 to 2026-07. Incident rows were observed in 12 of the 12 selected months. These are area counts, not street-level incidents or population-adjusted rates; they do not establish a comparison with local or national averages. No nearby amenity records are available in this extract. Recorded nearby transport modes: bus. The nearest mapped stop (Montgomery Crescent) is 119m away. Check current routes and service frequency with the operator. The median property price is £119,950. Based on 47 transactions recorded since 2014. LSOA source indicators: recorded population 1,964; owner-occupied homes 17.7%; social housing 19.4%; retired population 15.7%; average household size 2.1. There are 4 schools within 2 km, 4 rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Primary schools are nearby, though secondary options may require travel. Proximity does not establish admissions eligibility, catchment or personal suitability. The highest available weighted profile is investors at 78/100. This is a comparison of recorded inputs, not a recommendation or a forecast of returns. The available indicators produce a composite score of 52/100. Its recorded district percentile is 90. Missing dimensions are excluded; scores are proxies rather than measurements of personal liveability.
Score Breakdown
Scores are heuristic proxies from open datasets. Missing dimensions are excluded from the overall score. Source and scope are listed below.
police.uk recorded incident counts in the source extract; LSOA area, not street-level or population-adjusted
OpenStreetMap amenities within 2km
DfT NaPTAN + TfL stops
OpenStreetMap green-space proximity; distance-decay proxy, not noise or air quality
HM Land Registry price paid data
GIAS/Ofsted school records, mapped amenities, household and area-score indicators
Amenity and transport proximity proxy; no pedestrian network or route assessment
EPC Register — awaiting public API access
English Environment Agency planning zones; Welsh NRW categories are shown separately
Property Market
Semi-Detached | Freehold | Transactions: High recorded volume
Source release: 2026-08-28; registrations received through 2026-07-31. Earlier periods can be revised by late registrations. Standard and additional transactions are included, so property mix can affect the median.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Open Government Licence v3.0). Median comparisons use two full calendar years five years apart, with at least five sales in each. Different properties may have sold; this is not a house-price index or a prediction of returns.
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Public Services Nearby
Public facilities within walking distance from Wakenshaw Road, with detailed information for each.
gyms & sports centres (2)
- The Unity Gym 810m · 10 min walk
- Ross Thompson Personal Trainer 913m · 11 min walk
hospitals (1)
- Durham Diagnostic & Treatment Centre 1189m · 15 min walk
parks & green spaces (5)
- Gilesgate Park 150m · 2 min walk
- Cross Fields 259m · 3 min walk
- Sherburn Road nature area 612m · 8 min walk
- Pelaw Woods Local Nature Reserve 624m · 8 min walk
- Old Durham Gardens 1107m · 14 min walk
schools (5)
- Durham Gilesgate Primary School 587m · 7 min walk
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gilesgate 701m · 9 min walk
- Laurel Avenue Community Primary School 719m · 9 min walk
- St Hild's College Church of England Aided Primary School, Durham 822m · 10 min walk
- St Oswald's Church of England Aided Primary and Nursery School 1461m · 18 min walk
Transport Links
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Data Transparency
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- OS Open Roads — Crown copyright and database right
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data — Crown copyright
- police.uk crime data — Open Government Licence v3.0
- OpenStreetMap — ODbL licence
- DfT NaPTAN — Open Government Licence v3.0
- GIAS schools data — Crown copyright
- Environment Agency flood data — OGL v3.0
- ONS Census 2021 — Open Government Licence v3.0
All scores are computed from publicly available government and open data. No proprietary data is used. Scores reflect statistical patterns, not guarantees.
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