Property market
The five-year median is £257,500 from 1 recorded sale in AL9 5JE. 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.
AL9 5JE
Hatfield East · Welwyn Hatfield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Hatfield
- Ward
- Hatfield East
- Local authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Postcode district
- AL9
- Postcode sector
- AL9 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL9 5JE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL9
- Postcode sector
- AL9 5
- Latitude
- 51.761649
- Longitude
- -0.214668
- British National Grid easting
- 523,308
- British National Grid northing
- 208,503
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Welwyn Hatfield · E07000241
- Electoral ward
- Hatfield East · E05011062
- Parish or community
- E04004819
- Westminster constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield · E14001573
- Output area
- E00121488
- Lower layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 011A · E01023924
- Middle layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 011 · E02004990
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 AL9
Property
27 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Batterdale, Hatfield, AL9 5JE | 2 September 2025 | £257,500 |
| 7, Flat, Batterdale, Hatfield, AL9 5JE | 16 December 2020 | £280,000 |
| 7, Flat, Batterdale, Hatfield, AL9 5JE | 30 November 2015 | £260,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 4
- 433 m
Onslow St Audrey's School
Academy converter
- 467 m
Countess Anne Church of England School
Academy converter
- 836 m
Southfield School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,476
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 999
- Anti social behaviour 360
- Criminal damage and arson 184
- Vehicle crime 158
- Public order 144
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- AL9 5 residents
- 2,816
4 female, 10 male
Age bands in AL9 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.7%
528 residents
271 residents
1,009 residents
815 residents
605 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider AL9 5 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
BURVILL HOUSE SURGERY
52-54 DELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 8HP
ODS code E82023
865 m
LISTER HOUSE SURGERY
THE COMMON, HATFIELD, AL10 0NL
ODS code E82018
927 m
WRAFTON HOUSE SURGERY
9-11 WELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 0BS
ODS code E82002
996 m
SPRING HOUSE HEALTH
SPRING HOUSE SITE, ASCOTS LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 4HL
ODS code Y02639
2.9 km
HALL GROVE GROUP PRACTICE
4 HALL GROVE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 4PL
ODS code E82062
3.8 km
POTTERELLS MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION ROAD, WELHAM GREEN, NORTH MYMMS, HATFIELD, AL9 7SN
ODS code E82058
3.9 km
THE GARDEN CITY PRACTICE
BIRDCROFT ROAD, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL8 6EH
ODS code E82041
4.0 km
PEARTREE LANE SURGERY
110 PEARTREE LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 3UJ
ODS code E82040
4.1 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
St Etheldreda's Drive
BCT · Hatfield
- 0.1 miles
St Etheldreda's Drive
BCT · Hatfield
- 0.1 miles
Hatfield Railway Station
BCT · Hatfield
- 0.1 miles
Hatfield Railway Station
BCT · Hatfield
- 0.1 miles
Hatfield Railway Station
BCT · Hatfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Welwyn Hatfield 011A, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,530 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
33 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 4 secondary schools. Onslow St Audrey's School is the nearest published school at 433 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,476 published events cover 12 months, averaging 206.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 999 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.