Rookhill Road, Pontefract house prices are built from 113 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2002 and the most recent on 12 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £106,000. Across the 14 years from 2009 to 2023 the median moved +62.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +6.8%.
Median price paid
£106,000
Change in cash, 2009–2023
+62.5%
Change in real terms
+6.8%
Median per m²
£1,443
HM Land Registry113 sales25 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Sep 2025
Section 01
How Rookhill Road, Pontefract prices moved
The chart tracks the median Rookhill Road, Pontefract house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2002 to 2023. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 5 | £95,500 | £173,973 |
| 2010s | 3 | £115,000 | £162,150 |
| 2020s | 3 | £136,500 | £139,467 |
The highest yearly median on record for Rookhill Road, Pontefract is £148,250 in 2023; the lowest is £58,000 in 2002. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £58,000 to £148,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £111,874, so the real change over the whole record is +43.2% — about +1.72% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +62.5% in cash against +6.8% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 117 | 12 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £183,913 |
| 31 | 30 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| 93 | 7 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £178,804 |
| 168 | 23 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £189,403 |
| 114 | 19 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| 78 | 1 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £146,500 | £158,287 |
| 34 | 31 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £172,874 |
| 188 | 24 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £145,000 | £156,667 |
| 72 | 21 Apr 2023 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £183,678 |
| 80 | 31 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £130,000 | £140,460 |
| 7 | 16 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £162,069 |
| 76 | 18 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £202,753 |
| 3 | 19 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £148,000 | £171,471 |
| 74 | 29 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £166,000 | £192,325 |
| 190 | 22 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £122,000 | £141,348 |
| 129 | 7 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £133,000 | £168,038 |
| 138 | 22 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £145,000 | £183,199 |
| 5 | 19 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £127,000 | £160,457 |
| 7 | 14 Oct 2021 | Semi-detached | £140,000 | £176,882 |
| 56 | 28 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £140,000 | £176,882 |
| 194 | 30 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £151,613 |
| 144 | 9 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £90,000 | £116,529 |
| 126 | 23 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £136,500 | £176,736 |
| 25 | 17 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £139,000 | £179,972 |
| 170 | 5 Jun 2020 | Semi-detached | £127,500 | £165,083 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Rookhill Road, Pontefract values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 117 Rookhill Road | £120,000 (2006) | £180,000 (2025) | +2.2% | -0.8% |
| 31 Rookhill Road | £112,000 (2014) | £205,000 (2025) | +5.6% | +2.4% |
| 93 Rookhill Road | £118,000 (2020) | £175,000 (2025) | +8.2% | +3.2% |
| 72 Rookhill Road | £32,000 (1996) | £170,000 (2023) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 80 Rookhill Road | £111,000 (2008) | £130,000 (2023) | +1.1% | -1.9% |
| 7 Rookhill Road | £140,000 (2021) | £150,000 (2023) | +3.5% | -4.3% |
| 76 Rookhill Road | £117,500 (2007) | £175,000 (2022) | +2.7% | -0.1% |
| 3 Rookhill Road | £79,950 (2003) | £148,000 (2022) | +3.3% | +0.7% |
| 74 Rookhill Road | £39,995 (2001) | £166,000 (2022) | +7.0% | +4.4% |
| 5 Rookhill Road | £36,500 (1997) | £127,000 (2021) | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| 56 Rookhill Road | £112,000 (2009) | £140,000 (2021) | +1.9% | -0.3% |
| 170 Rookhill Road | £60,000 (2002) | £127,500 (2020) | +4.3% | +2.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Rookhill Road, Pontefract is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 106 | 93.8% | £108,000 | £32,000 – £205,000 |
| Terraced | 7 | 6.2% | £87,500 | £35,750 – £110,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Rookhill Road, Pontefract
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 113 freehold — 0.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 113 | 100.0% | £106,000 |
A further 5 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Rookhill Road, Pontefract
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Doncaster, 38.8% of 155,404 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 649 | 0.4% |
| B | 15,448 | 9.9% |
| C | 44,227 | 28.5% |
| D | 65,682 | 42.3% |
| E | 22,894 | 14.7% |
| F | 4,994 | 3.2% |
| G | 1,510 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Doncaster at £690 a month as of Jun 2026 — £490 for a one-bedroom home and £752 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £106,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.81% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of WF8, 248 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 94 violent, 7 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 40 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.5 times busier.
Against the 308,106 residents the 2021 census counted in Doncaster, that is 0.80 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Rookhill Road, Pontefract
The 2021 census counted 308,106 residents in Doncaster across 133,480 households. 63.3% of those households own their home and 36.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
16 state and independent schools have a WF8 postcode: 12 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The King's School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,041 |
| Carleton High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,026 |
| Halfpenny Lane Junior Infant and Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 434 |
| De Lacy Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 342 |
| St Giles C of E Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 337 |
| Orchard Head Junior and Infant and Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 335 |
| The Rookeries Carleton Junior and Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 330 |
| Cherry Tree Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 233 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Pontefract | Primary | Academy converter | 222 |
| Carleton Park Junior and Infant School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 208 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Pontefract Baghill Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Pontefract Monkhill Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Pontefract Tanshelf Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Knottingley Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
Section 09
How Rookhill Road, Pontefract compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Rookhill Road, Pontefract sits below that national figure — -32.7%.
Within Pontefract the street ranks 736 of 1302 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £109,950 (-3.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,443 per square metre, across 25 of the 113 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £32,000 to £205,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Rookhill Road, Pontefract sits in Doncaster, in England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Doncaster at 5.2 times median local earnings of £33,802 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Carleton Road£130,000 median
- Northgate Lodge£63,000 median
- Mill Lane£75,750 median
- Ackworth Road£142,500 median
- Ashworth Road£124,000 median
- Priory Chase£98,000 median
- Cavendish Avenue£117,000 median
- Willow Bank Drive£145,725 median
- Bexhill Close£125,000 median
- Churchbalk Lane£122,000 median
- Church Lane£90,000 median
- Lake View£147,950 median
- Wordsworth Approach£89,000 median
- Ferrybridge Road£80,000 median
- Bondgate£95,250 median
- Larks Hill£149,975 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 5 Rookhill Road5 sales
- 14 Rookhill Road5 sales
- 174 Rookhill Road4 sales
- 100 Rookhill Road4 sales
- 60 Rookhill Road4 sales
- 117 Rookhill Road3 sales
- 31 Rookhill Road3 sales
- 74 Rookhill Road3 sales
- 33 Rookhill Road3 sales
- 87 Rookhill Road3 sales
- 46 Rookhill Road3 sales
- 93 Rookhill Road2 sales
- 72 Rookhill Road2 sales
- 80 Rookhill Road2 sales
- 7 Rookhill Road2 sales
- 76 Rookhill Road2 sales
- 3 Rookhill Road2 sales
- 56 Rookhill Road2 sales
- 170 Rookhill Road2 sales
- 15 Rookhill Road2 sales
- 178 Rookhill Road2 sales
- 37 Rookhill Road2 sales
- 122 Rookhill Road2 sales
- 84 Rookhill Road2 sales
Back to Pontefract house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Rookhill Road, Pontefract?
The median price paid in Rookhill Road, Pontefract across every sale on the register is £106,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Rookhill Road, Pontefract?
113 sales are on record for Rookhill Road, Pontefract, the most recent completing on 12 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Rookhill Road, Pontefract house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +62.5% between 2009 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +6.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Rookhill Road, Pontefract house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £148,250, set in 2023. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Rookhill Road, Pontefract?
£1,443 per square metre, from the 25 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 12 Sep 2025. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Rookhill Road, Pontefract house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.