Handside · Welwyn Hatfield · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcode| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 78, Valley Road, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7DP | 16 March 2026 | £715,000 |
| 72, Valley Road, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7DP | 27 September 2024 | £940,000 |
| 78, Valley Road, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7DP | 18 August 2023 | £650,000 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
Applecroft School
Academy converter
Lakeside School
Community special school
St John's Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School, Lemsford
Voluntary aided school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
14 female, 16 male
1,532 residents
780 residents
1,673 residents
2,267 residents
1,553 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km
BIRDCROFT ROAD, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL8 6EH
ODS code E82041
807 m
110 PEARTREE LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 3UJ
ODS code E82040
1.6 km
SPRING HOUSE SITE, ASCOTS LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 4HL
ODS code Y02639
2.8 km
4 HALL GROVE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 4PL
ODS code E82062
2.9 km
41 HIGH STREET, WELWYN, AL6 9EF
ODS code E82019
3.3 km
9-11 WELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 0BS
ODS code E82002
3.8 km
THE COMMON, HATFIELD, AL10 0NL
ODS code E82018
4.0 km
52-54 DELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 8HP
ODS code E82023
4.4 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Youngs Rise
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
Applecroft Road
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
Youngs Rise
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
Applecroft Road
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
Barn Close
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
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
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.
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.
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.
The five-year median is £715,000 from 3 recorded sales in AL8 7DP. 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.
42 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 5 secondary schools. Applecroft School is the nearest published school at 321 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
1,814 published events cover 12 months, averaging 151.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 527 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.