Property market
The five-year median is £825,000 from 1 recorded sale in AL8 7BD. 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.
AL8 7BD
Handside · Welwyn Hatfield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Welwyn Garden City
- Ward
- Handside
- Local authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Postcode district
- AL8
- Postcode sector
- AL8 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL8 7BD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL8
- Postcode sector
- AL8 7
- Latitude
- 51.803620
- Longitude
- -0.217347
- British National Grid easting
- 523,009
- British National Grid northing
- 213,166
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Welwyn Hatfield · E07000241
- Electoral ward
- Handside · E05011060
- Parish or community
- E43000083
- Westminster constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield · E14001573
- Output area
- E00121456
- Lower layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 006D · E01023919
- Middle layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 006 · E02004985
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 AL8
Property
21 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 10, Dellcott Close, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7BD | 25 June 2025 | £825,000 |
| 18, Dellcott Close, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7BD | 5 February 2020 | £568,000 |
| 26, Dellcott Close, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7BD | 20 November 2019 | £912,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 4
- 682 m
Applecroft School
Academy converter
- 905 m
Templewood Primary School
Community school
- 1.4 km
Lakeside School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,922
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 579
- Shoplifting 480
- Anti social behaviour 287
- Public order 125
- Criminal damage and arson 107
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 38
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- AL8 7 residents
- 7,518
21 female, 17 male
Age bands in AL8 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.9%
1,532 residents
780 residents
1,673 residents
2,267 residents
1,553 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider AL8 7 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
8
within 5 km
THE GARDEN CITY PRACTICE
BIRDCROFT ROAD, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL8 6EH
ODS code E82041
910 m
PEARTREE LANE SURGERY
110 PEARTREE LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 3UJ
ODS code E82040
1.5 km
HALL GROVE GROUP PRACTICE
4 HALL GROVE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 4PL
ODS code E82062
2.9 km
BRIDGE COTTAGE SURGERY
41 HIGH STREET, WELWYN, AL6 9EF
ODS code E82019
2.9 km
SPRING HOUSE HEALTH
SPRING HOUSE SITE, ASCOTS LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 4HL
ODS code Y02639
3.0 km
WRAFTON HOUSE SURGERY
9-11 WELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 0BS
ODS code E82002
4.2 km
LISTER HOUSE SURGERY
THE COMMON, HATFIELD, AL10 0NL
ODS code E82018
4.4 km
BURVILL HOUSE SURGERY
52-54 DELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 8HP
ODS code E82023
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Valley Green
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
- 0.1 miles
The Valley Green
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
- 0.2 miles
Handside Lane
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
- 0.2 miles
Youngs Rise
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
- 0.2 miles
Youngs Rise
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Welwyn Hatfield 006D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,461 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
36 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 4 secondary schools. Applecroft School is the nearest published school at 682 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,922 published events cover 12 months, averaging 160.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 579 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.