Property market
The five-year median is £990,000 from 2 recorded sales in HP2 6HW. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Dacorum is £459,438 in June 2026, up 1.8% year on year.
HP2 6HW
Watling · Dacorum · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Hemel Hempstead
- Ward
- Watling
- Local authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted
- Postcode district
- HP2
- Postcode sector
- HP2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP2 6HW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP2
- Postcode sector
- HP2 6
- Latitude
- 51.810939
- Longitude
- -0.489475
- British National Grid easting
- 504,230
- British National Grid northing
- 213,556
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Dacorum · E07000096
- Electoral ward
- Watling · E05004714
- Parish or community
- E04004702
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00119024
- Lower layer super output area
- Dacorum 001B · E01023431
- Middle layer super output area
- Dacorum 001 · E02004856
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 HP2
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Beechwood View, Gaddesden Row, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 6HW | 9 October 2025 | £1,000,000 |
| 4, Beechwood View, Gaddesden Row, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 6HW | 12 May 2023 | £980,000 |
| 2, Row Meadow Cottages, Gaddesden Row, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 6HW | 31 March 2021 | £20,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 1
- 965 m
Gaddesden Row JMI School
Community school
- 971 m
Beechwood Park School
Other independent school
- 2.6 km
Great Gaddesden Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 33
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 10
- Violence and sexual offences 10
- Public order 3
- Burglary 2
- Other theft 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 24
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 3.4
- HP2 6 residents
- 7,919
14 female, 10 male
Age bands in HP2 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.1%
1,638 residents
785 residents
2,263 residents
2,001 residents
1,376 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HP2 6 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+
- 72.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
2
within 5 km
GROVE HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
KILBRIDE COURT, GROVEHILL, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 6AD
ODS code E82050
4.8 km
WOODHALL FARM MEDICAL CTR
VALLEY GREEN, SHENLEY ROAD, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 7RJ
ODS code E82070
4.9 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
- 0.2 miles
Bradden Lane
BCT · Jockey End
- 0.2 miles
Bradden Lane
BCT · Jockey End
- 0.4 miles
Ballingdon Farm
BCT · Jockey End
- 0.4 miles
Ballingdon Farm
BCT · Jockey End
- 0.5 miles
Whitehouse Farm
BCT · Jockey End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dacorum 001B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,402 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
14 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 1 secondary schools. Gaddesden Row JMI School is the nearest published school at 965 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
33 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.