Welwyn Garden City Central & Handside · AL8
Welwyn Hatfield
Close to East of England's middle on most measures.
Sales in this neighbourhood · 12 months to Aug 2026
- All homes
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| 12 months to | All homes |
|---|---|
| Aug 2016 | £460k |
| Aug 2017 | £510k |
| Aug 2018 | £595k |
| Aug 2019 | £475k |
| Aug 2020 | £580k |
| Aug 2021 | £505k |
| Aug 2022 | £707k |
| Aug 2023 | £680k |
| Aug 2024 | £690k |
| Aug 2025 | £515k |
| Aug 2026 | £545k |
- Resale £/m²
- £6,300 (£587/sq ft) · 56 sales, 36 mo
- Change
- 5 y +7.0%
- Sales & turnover
- 25 of 800 recorded homes in 12 mo · 3.1%
- Leasehold · new-build
- 20% · —
- All homes
- £545k median · 24 sales · middle half £451k–£665k
- Rent, All homes
- £1,512 / month · Welwyn Hatfield average
- Rent change
- 1 yr +3.5% · 5 yr +28.4% (East of England +3.5% · +31.0%)
- East of England rank
- Faster rise than 41% of local authorities in East of England
Recent sales in this area
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Sold prices in AL8: Rightmove
A postcode district is wider than the area. Close Knit doesn't host listings.
Sources
Price per square metre. Rolling 12-month median achieved price per square metre of standard market sales (Price Paid category A), using each home's EPC floor area.
HM Land Registry Price Paid + EPC · 2026-08
Areas with fewer than 20 qualifying sales in the 12 months fall back to their MSOA, then council.
Excludes repossessions, buy-to-let and company sales (category B) and 'other' property types.
Sales without an EPC floor area, under £20,000, or outside 15–1,000 m² or £500–£40,000/m² are excluded.
Land Registry registers sales with a lag of up to a few months, so the latest window is still filling.
Outside London, sales are placed in their postcode's area (ONSPD) and linked to EPC floor areas by address; before 2023 they show one value a year. London's figures come from its address-level build.
Price sample: 24 matched sales support this number at LSOA level; 0 of 24 sales had no usable floor area and are excluded.
Compared with England: Not published: nationwide price coverage is incomplete.
Based on 24 sales · 2026-08 · release src-hmlr-pp-category-a-2026-08-england
Recent sales: standard sales from the last 18 months, nearest first.
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Standard sales only (Price Paid category A) of £10,000 or more; repossessions, company and buy-to-let transfers are left out.
Sales reach the register weeks to months after completion, so the newest months are incomplete.
£ per m² uses only sales whose home has an energy certificate with a floor area.
ONS Price Index of Private Rents: Source: Office for National Statistics, Price Index of Private Rents. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Council-wide: every neighbourhood in a council reads the council's rents.
Average (mean) monthly rent of new and existing tenancies; change is from the ONS index, which adjusts for the mix of homes let.
Official statistics in development: ONS may revise recent months.
No City of London figures are published.
- Typical walk from homes
- 14 min to a station · shorter than 85% of East of England
- Welwyn Garden City
- about 14 min walk · Great Northern, Thameslink
- Cycle lanes ≤ 1 km
- London only
Sources
Walk to a station: the typical walk from the area's homes to the nearest rail, tube, DLR or tram station is timed along mapped OpenStreetMap paths at 4.8 km/h; each station row is a straight-line estimate stretched by a 1.3 routing detour, so it reads 'about'. Lifts, stairs, crossings and waiting are not timed. © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the area.
Places come from OpenStreetMap, which volunteers keep up to date; a new shop or a closed pub may be missing.
Distances are straight lines from the area's centre or the home, not walking routes.
© OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).
Powered by TfL Open Data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2016 and Geomni UK Map data © and database rights [2019].
Powered by TfL Open Data.
- Trend
- −23.2% over 11 months
- Road casualties ≤ 500 m
- 5 in 5 years · 0 children · 1 serious or fatal · On map
- Who was hurt
- 4 pedestrians · 1 cyclists
- Per year
- 1 · 1 · 0 · 2 · 1 (2021–2025)
- Period
- 12 months to Aug 2026
Sources
Crime is counted where it happens, so busy shopping and night-life streets score high.
Rates are per 1,000 residents over 12 months; places with few residents and many visitors read high.
Police.uk open data: the police forces of England and Wales. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Road casualties: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), OGL v3.0. Many slight injuries are never reported to the police.
Recorded crime. Police-recorded offences in the 12 months to the selected month, per 1,000 residents (every police force in England). Excludes anti-social behaviour and British Transport Police.
Police.uk open data · 2026-08
Rolling 12 months: each month shows offences recorded in the year to that month.
Published crime coordinates are deliberately anonymised and never identify a building.
British Transport Police records are excluded.
Anti-social behaviour is excluded from the rate (police.uk lists it separately).
Population denominator: ONS mid-2024 LSOA estimates; council/MSOA rates use summed counts and populations.
City of London and West End rates use resident population; daytime footfall is far higher.
police.uk places each crime at an anonymous snap point; an LSOA with fewer than 20 offences in 12 months and under a tenth of the crimes its MSOA rate predicts shows the MSOA rate instead (marked fallback).
Percentiles compare each area with the others of its region.
No figure where the police force did not publish every month of the 12 (latest window: Greater Manchester, Northumbria, Gloucestershire).
Schools
7 within 1.5 kmBest nearby: top 15% of East of England- Nurseries ≤ 1 km
- 7 well rated: Parkway Pre-School 0 m · 4kidz Childcare Ltd @ Gosling 718 m
Sources
State schools within 1.5 km, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Not a catchment: being close does not guarantee a place.
Top 10%: the school is in the top tenth of East of England's schools on its latest published results and rated Good or better.
Older Ofsted grades and the new report cards are not comparable; each badge says which it is.
Kids, each ranked against East of England's areas: nurseries and pre-schools within 1 km rated well by Ofsted (Good or Outstanding, or a report card with no area below Expected standard; childminders are not included), Ofsted Early Years management information, Open Government Licence v3.0. Road safety: pedestrians and cyclists hurt within 500 m in police-reported collisions over five years, DfT road safety data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0. Cycle lanes: km of protected track and TfL Cycleway within 1 km, TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database (surveyed 2017–19) and Cycleways, Powered by TfL Open Data (London only).
- ShopBudgens3 min
- PharmacySuperdrug9 min
- GP1 within 1 km390 m
- GymNo gym within 1.5 km—
- PoolNo pool within 1.5 km—
- Within 10 min walk
- 4 to eat · 3 shops
- Food hygiene 4–5
- 88% (7 of 8) · above 36% of East of England
- Bars, pubs and clubs
- 1 place · more than 41% of East of England
- Playgrounds, nurseries, libraries
- 6 min walk in this area
Sources
Shops, pubs, cafés, pharmacies and GP surgeries mapped in OpenStreetMap. Volunteers keep it up to date, so a new or closed place may be missing.
Food hygiene: cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs within 800 m with a published rating; exempt places and those awaiting inspection are left out. Food Standards Agency, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the area.
Places come from OpenStreetMap, which volunteers keep up to date; a new shop or a closed pub may be missing.
Distances are straight lines from the area's centre or the home, not walking routes.
© OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).
Powered by TfL Open Data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2016 and Geomni UK Map data © and database rights [2019].
- Nearest nature site
- Sherrardspark Wood · Local Nature Reserve · 15 min
- Homes over 55 dB
- 31.1%
- Road noise
- Median 52.9 dB · 3.2% over 65 dB · rail 7.8% over 55 dB
- Flood (highest band)
- rivers and sea: very low · surface water: high
Sources
Flood: shares of the area's land by Environment Agency band, not of its buildings. Highest: the highest band covering at least 1% of the land.
Environment Agency: these bands show the likelihood of flooding for an area, not for a specific property. Check one address.
Bands are modelled chances of flooding in a year, not a record of past floods.
Area figures describe the land in the area, not each building in it.
Read from the Environment Agency's map service at 1 m per pixel, the same grid as the London figures.
Homes are the addresses in the domestic EPC register, read at their OS Open UPRN point; no single home is shown.
Places outside every mapped band count as very low. Groundwater and sewer flooding are not included.
Rivers, lakes and reservoirs (OpenStreetMap) are left out of an area's land.
Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea and Risk of Flooding from Surface Water (NaFRA2). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right. Open water: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Homes: OS Open UPRN (OGL v3) at UPRNs in the domestic EPC register (OGL v3).
Noise: modelled whole-day average (Lden) at 528 recorded homes, road or rail; no aircraft noise.
Modelled annual averages at 4 m above ground on a 10 m grid, not measurements.
Levels under 40 dB Lden are not mapped; aircraft noise is not included outside London.
Homes are the addresses in the domestic EPC register, read at their OS Open UPRN point; no single home is shown.
Homes under 40 dB Lden are not mapped; the road median covers mapped homes only.
Defra strategic noise mapping Round 4 (2022), road and rail. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Homes: OS Open UPRN and the domestic EPC register (OGL v3).
Straight-line distances from the middle of the area.
Places come from OpenStreetMap, which volunteers keep up to date; a new shop or a closed pub may be missing.
Distances are straight lines from the area's centre or the home, not walking routes.
© OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).
Powered by TfL Open Data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2016 and Geomni UK Map data © and database rights [2019].
Nature: the score combines green land, street trees per hectare and the distance to the nearest nature reserve or SSSI, each ranked among East of England neighbourhoods.
Wildlife: species people recorded within 1 km (birds, mammals, amphibians). Records follow where people look, so a short list can mean few observers, not few animals.
Local Nature Reserves and Sites of Special Scientific Interest only; council Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation are not openly licensed and are not included.
© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Health
GP 386 m- GP
- 1 within 1 km · 2,945 patients per GP · nearest 390 m
- Air NO₂ / PM2.5
- London only
Sources
Air pollution is modelled by the GLA (London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory) for one year on a 20 m grid and averaged over the area's homes; it is not a measurement at any one address.
Summer heat is the GLA's modelled mean midnight air temperature, May to September 2011, on a 250 m grid, averaged over the area's homes: it shows which places stay warmer at night, not a forecast or an indoor temperature.
GP access counts the practices whose surgery postcode is within 1 km of a neighbourhood's centre (for an MSOA or council, inside it): registered patients per full-time-equivalent GP, trainees and locums excluded. People can register with a practice further away; practices outside England are not counted.
- Extending
- Conservation 89% · Article 4 not published (Welwyn Hatfield) · 1 listed building
- Gigabit broadband
- 100% of homes (East of England 87%)
- Settled
- 93% at the same address a year earlier (East of England 90%)
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Sources
Shares of this neighbourhood's households, 2021 Census; the tick on each row is East of England. Neutral context, never rated.
ONS Census 2021 tables TS003, TS004, TS007A, TS012, TS013, TS015, TS021, TS022, TS028, TS030, TS031, TS044, TS054, TS063, TS066, TS067 via Nomis; country of birth (190 categories) and main language (26) via the ONS API. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ONS mid-2024 Lower layer Super Output Area population estimates (revised November 2025). Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Listed buildings: © Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right. National Heritage List for England, via planning.data.gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ofcom Connected Nations, spring 2026 update (January 2026 coverage). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 TS019 Migrant indicator, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Article 4 direction areas, planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG, from local planning authorities). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Conservation areas, planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, from local planning authorities and Historic England), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right.
Shares are of the area's land; the council's own maps and planning team are the authority on what needs permission.
Article 4 counts only directions that remove householder rights (extensions, roofs, porches, windows), and only from councils that publish them to planning.data.gov.uk.
Conservation areas outside London are as councils publish them to planning.data.gov.uk; a council that publishes none shows no conservation share (unknown).
Listed buildings are counted by list entry; one entry can be a terrace. Listing covers the whole building, inside and out.
Broadband is availability (a line can be ordered), not take-up or speed in use; full fibre is the council area's figure.
Settledness is from Census day, 21 March 2021, during the pandemic: students and some renters were away.
People
Census 2021- 1,722 people (2024)
- 3,158 people / km² · 9.2× East of England's density
- 774 households
- Deprivation: among East of England's least deprived 20%
Sources
Shares of this neighbourhood's residents and households, 2021 Census; the tick on each row is East of England. Neutral context, never rated.
People per km²: mid-2024 population estimate over the area's land.
ONS Census 2021 tables TS003, TS004, TS007A, TS012, TS013, TS015, TS021, TS022, TS028, TS030, TS031, TS044, TS054, TS063, TS066, TS067 via Nomis; country of birth (190 categories) and main language (26) via the ONS API. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ONS mid-2024 Lower layer Super Output Area population estimates (revised November 2025). Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Deprivation is the official Index of Multiple Deprivation for the area, not its people.
Living costs
Band D £2,452Welwyn Hatfield 2026-27- Council tax 2026-27
- Band D £2,452 · A £1,635 … H £4,905
- Band D
- £2,452.26 = Welwyn Hatfield £252.00 + County £1,858.19 + Police £280.00 + Parish £62.07
- Renting, Welwyn Hatfield average
- 1 bed £1,063 · 2 bed £1,375 · 3 bed £1,646 · 4+ bed £2,337
Sources
Councillor data from Democracy Club (democracyclub.org.uk), CC BY 4.0.
Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026.
MP data from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Price Index of Private Rents. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.