Property market
The five-year median is £1,625,000 from 1 recorded sale in EN5 4RZ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Hertsmere is £560,436 in June 2026, up 2.6% year on year.
EN5 4RZ
Bentley Heath & The Royds · Hertsmere · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EN5 4RZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EN
- Postcode district
- EN5
- Postcode sector
- EN5 4
- Latitude
- 51.683921
- Longitude
- -0.197127
- British National Grid easting
- 524,732
- British National Grid northing
- 199,889
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Hertsmere · E07000098
- Electoral ward
- Bentley Heath & The Royds · E05012179
- Parish or community
- E43000288
- Westminster constituency
- Hertsmere · E14001284
- Output area
- E00119760
- Lower layer super output area
- Hertsmere 001A · E01023576
- Middle layer super output area
- Hertsmere 001 · E02004896
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 EN5
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Elm Cottage, Bentley Heath Lane, Barnet, EN5 4RZ | 30 September 2022 | £1,625,000 |
| Elm House, Bentley Heath Lane, Barnet, EN5 4RZ | 14 October 2015 | £1,315,000 |
| Elm Cottage, Bentley Heath Lane, Barnet, EN5 4RZ | 5 May 2006 | £675,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 44
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 7
- 694 m
Pope Paul Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Dame Alice Owen's School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Elysium Healthcare Potters Bar Clinic School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 852
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 323
- Anti social behaviour 116
- Shoplifting 93
- Other theft 63
- Criminal damage and arson 61
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- EN5 4 residents
- 6,059
2 female, 3 male
Age bands in EN5 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
1,007 residents
533 residents
1,344 residents
1,664 residents
1,259 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider EN5 4 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+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Gigabit-capable
- 25%
- 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
PARKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE WALK, POTTERS BAR, EN6 1QH
ODS code E82027
1.7 km
ANNANDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82098
2.3 km
HIGHVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82078
2.3 km
THE OLD COURT HOUSE SURGERY
27 WOOD STREET, BARNET, EN5 4BB
ODS code E83012
3.5 km
LONGROVE SURGERY
VALE DRIVE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, BARNET, EN5 2ED
ODS code E83017
3.9 km
ADDINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
46 STATION ROAD, NEW BARNET, BARNET, EN5 1QH
ODS code E83044
4.1 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERY
113 EAST BARNET ROAD, BARNET, EN4 8RF
ODS code E83031
4.5 km
EAST BARNET HEALTH CENTRE
149 EAST BARNET ROAD, BARNET, EN4 8QZ
ODS code E83613
4.7 km
POTTERELLS MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION ROAD, WELHAM GREEN, NORTH MYMMS, HATFIELD, AL9 7SN
ODS code E82058
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Pope Paul Catholic Primary School
BCT · Dugdale Hill
- 0.5 miles
Pope Paul Catholic Primary School
BCT · Dugdale Hill
- 0.5 miles
Wagon Road
BCT · Ganwick Corner
- 0.5 miles
Wagon Road
BCT · Ganwick Corner
- 0.5 miles
Baker Street
BCT · Potters Bar
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hertsmere 001A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,093 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
44 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 7 secondary schools. Pope Paul Catholic Primary School is the nearest published school at 694 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
852 published events cover 12 months, averaging 71 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 323 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.