Property market
The five-year median is £337,500 from 1 recorded sale in HP4 2BY. 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.
HP4 2BY
Berkhamsted Castle · Dacorum · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Berkhamsted
- Ward
- Berkhamsted Castle
- Local authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted
- Postcode district
- HP4
- Postcode sector
- HP4 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP4 2BY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2003
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP4
- Postcode sector
- HP4 2
- Latitude
- 51.759439
- Longitude
- -0.560890
- British National Grid easting
- 499,420
- British National Grid northing
- 207,729
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Dacorum · E07000096
- Electoral ward
- Berkhamsted Castle · E05004697
- Parish or community
- E04004697
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00118688
- Lower layer super output area
- Dacorum 009A · E01023361
- Middle layer super output area
- Dacorum 009 · E02004864
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 HP4
Property
21 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Pilkington Manor, 4, High Street, Berkhamsted, HP4 2BY | 19 January 2026 | £337,500 |
| Pilkington Manor, 4, High Street, Berkhamsted, HP4 2BY | 26 June 2018 | £161,250 |
| Pilkington Manor, 9, High Street, Berkhamsted, HP4 2BY | 28 November 2014 | £380,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 2
- 117 m
Berkhamsted School
Other independent school
- 261 m
Victoria Church of England Infant and Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
- 476 m
Swing Gate Infant School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 888
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 268
- Anti social behaviour 164
- Shoplifting 102
- Vehicle crime 61
- Other theft 60
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- HP4 2 residents
- 8,109
8 female, 8 male
Age bands in HP4 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.4%
1,387 residents
641 residents
1,942 residents
2,333 residents
1,716 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HP4 2 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+
- 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
4
within 5 km
THE MANOR STREET SURGERY
ANNANDALE HSE, MANOR STREET, BERKHAMSTED, HP4 2DL
ODS code E82094
141 m
GOSSOMS END SURGERY
VICTORY ROAD, BERKHAMSTED, HP4 1DL
ODS code E82652
1.3 km
PARKWOOD SURGERY
PARKWOOD DRIVE SURGERY, PARKWOOD DRIVE, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP1 2LD
ODS code E82091
4.5 km
ARCHWAY SURGERY
52 HIGH STREET, BOVINGDON, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 0HJ
ODS code E82643
4.5 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Collegrate School
BCT · Berkhamsted
- 0.1 miles
Victoria Road
BCT · Berkhamsted
- 0.1 miles
Victoria Road
BCT · Berkhamsted
- 0.2 miles
Town Hall
BCT · Berkhamsted
- 0.2 miles
Town Hall
BCT · Berkhamsted
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dacorum 009A, 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
28,097 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
24 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 2 secondary schools. Berkhamsted School is the nearest published school at 117 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
888 published events cover 12 months, averaging 74 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 268 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.