Property market
The five-year median is £480,000 from 1 recorded sale in EN6 5LX. 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.
EN6 5LX
Potters Bar Oakmere · Hertsmere · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Potters Bar
- Ward
- Potters Bar Oakmere
- Local authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere
- Postcode district
- EN6
- Postcode sector
- EN6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EN6 5LX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EN
- Postcode district
- EN6
- Postcode sector
- EN6 5
- Latitude
- 51.696162
- Longitude
- -0.170580
- British National Grid easting
- 526,533
- British National Grid northing
- 201,296
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Hertsmere · E07000098
- Electoral ward
- Potters Bar Oakmere · E05012190
- Parish or community
- E43000288
- Westminster constituency
- Hertsmere · E14001284
- Output area
- E00119733
- Lower layer super output area
- Hertsmere 003B · E01023572
- Middle layer super output area
- Hertsmere 003 · E02004898
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 EN6
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 23, Chace Avenue, Potters Bar, EN6 5LX | 26 May 2023 | £480,000 |
| 25, Chace Avenue, Potters Bar, EN6 5LX | 25 June 2021 | £510,000 |
| 11, Chace Avenue, Potters Bar, EN6 5LX | 15 April 2021 | £640,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 4
- 423 m
Oakmere Primary School
Community school
- 471 m
Stormont School
Other independent school
- 631 m
Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,660
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 518
- Anti social behaviour 250
- Other theft 217
- Shoplifting 188
- Criminal damage and arson 102
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 30
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- EN6 5 residents
- 5,662
20 female, 10 male
Age bands in EN6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.9%
1,030 residents
643 residents
1,458 residents
1,555 residents
1,239 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider EN6 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
ANNANDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82098
365 m
HIGHVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82078
365 m
PARKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE WALK, POTTERS BAR, EN6 1QH
ODS code E82027
632 m
CUFFLEY AND GOFFS OAK MEDICAL PRACTICE
MAYNARD PLACE, CUFFLEY, POTTERS BAR, EN6 4JA
ODS code E82081
4.2 km
POTTERELLS MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION ROAD, WELHAM GREEN, NORTH MYMMS, HATFIELD, AL9 7SN
ODS code E82058
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Tempest Avenue
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.1 miles
Bowmans Close
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.2 miles
Stamford Close
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.2 miles
Bus Garage
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.2 miles
Bus Garage
BCT · Potters Bar
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hertsmere 003B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,451 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
30 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 4 secondary schools. Oakmere Primary School is the nearest published school at 423 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,660 published events cover 12 months, averaging 138.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 518 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.