Property market
The five-year median is £620,000 from 1 recorded sale in AL6 9EW. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Welwyn Hatfield is £450,696 in June 2026, up 5.8% year on year.
AL6 9EW
Welwyn West · Welwyn Hatfield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Welwyn
- Ward
- Welwyn West
- Local authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Postcode district
- AL6
- Postcode sector
- AL6 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL6 9EW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 February 2025
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL6
- Postcode sector
- AL6 9
- Latitude
- 51.829540
- Longitude
- -0.214669
- British National Grid easting
- 523,123
- British National Grid northing
- 216,053
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Welwyn Hatfield · E07000241
- Electoral ward
- Welwyn West · E05011073
- Parish or community
- E04004822
- Westminster constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield · E14001573
- Output area
- E00121714
- Lower layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 002C · E01023969
- Middle layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 002 · E02004981
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore AL6
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 10, Prospect Place, Welwyn, AL6 9EW | 14 September 2023 | £620,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 3
- 345 m
Tenterfield Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 349 m
Welwyn St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 582 m
Sherrardswood School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 388
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 147
- Anti social behaviour 70
- Other theft 59
- Criminal damage and arson 24
- Burglary 21
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL6 9 residents
- 5,734
Age bands in AL6 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.7%
953 residents
459 residents
1,315 residents
1,568 residents
1,409 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
BRIDGE COTTAGE SURGERY
41 HIGH STREET, WELWYN, AL6 9EF
ODS code E82019
104 m
THE GARDEN CITY PRACTICE
BIRDCROFT ROAD, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL8 6EH
ODS code E82041
3.6 km
PEARTREE LANE SURGERY
110 PEARTREE LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 3UJ
ODS code E82040
3.8 km
KNEBWORTH & MARYMEAD PRACTICE
7 ST MARTINS ROAD, KNEBWORTH, SG3 6ER
ODS code E82035
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Library
BCT · Welwyn
- 0.1 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Welwyn
- 0.1 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Welwyn
- 0.1 miles
St Mary's School
BCT · Welwyn
- 0.1 miles
School Lane
BCT · Welwyn
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Welwyn Hatfield 002C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,041 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 3 secondary schools. Tenterfield Nursery School is the nearest published school at 345 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
388 published events cover 12 months, averaging 32.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 147 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.