Property market
The five-year median is £916,465 from 2 recorded sales in WD18 0PD. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Watford is £396,385 in June 2026, up 2.8% year on year.
WD18 0PD
Central · Watford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD18 0PD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD18
- Postcode sector
- WD18 0
- Latitude
- 51.655234
- Longitude
- -0.397871
- British National Grid easting
- 510,925
- British National Grid northing
- 196,375
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Watford · E07000103
- Electoral ward
- Central · E05011047
- Parish or community
- E43000082
- Westminster constituency
- Watford · E14001568
- Output area
- E00189417
- Lower layer super output area
- Watford 009I · E01035578
- Middle layer super output area
- Watford 009 · E02004976
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 WD18
Property
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Market Street, Watford, WD18 0PD | 4 November 2025 | £997,930 |
| 2, Market Street, Watford, WD18 0PD | 21 July 2023 | £835,000 |
| 12a, Market Street, Watford, WD18 0PD | 15 March 2021 | £204,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 88
- Primary
- 54
- Secondary
- 10
- 308 m
Nisai Virtual Academy Ltd
Special post 16 institution
- 318 m
Watford Grammar School for Girls
Academy converter
- 347 m
Watford St John's Church of England Primary School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,568
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,265
- Anti social behaviour 901
- Shoplifting 659
- Other theft 504
- Public order 458
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 50
- Postcode households
- 24
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- WD18 0 residents
- 10,101
25 female, 25 male
Age bands in WD18 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 40.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.1%
1,817 residents
976 residents
3,811 residents
2,089 residents
766 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WD18 0 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
13
within 5 km
WATFORD HEALTH CENTRE
GROUND FLOOR, COLNE HOUSE, 21 UPTON ROAD, WATFORD, WD18 0JP
ODS code E82045
274 m
SUTHERGREY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
37A ST. JOHNS ROAD, WATFORD, WD17 1LS
ODS code E82015
636 m
THE ELMS SURGERY
38 THE AVENUE, WATFORD, WD17 4NT
ODS code E82069
838 m
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code E82013
1.8 km
SAS WEST HERTS
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code Y08362
1.8 km
ATTENBOROUGH SURGERY
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82124
1.9 km
MANOR VIEW PRACTICE
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82073
1.9 km
GARSTON MEDICAL CENTRE
6A NORTH WESTERN AVENUE, WATFORD, WD25 9GP
ODS code E82017
3.1 km
CONSULTING ROOMS
THE CONSULTING ROOMS, OXHEY DRIVE, WATFORD, WD19 7RU
ODS code E82020
3.3 km
SOUTH OXHEY SURGERY
OXHEY DRIVE, WATFORD, WD19 7SF
ODS code E82655
3.3 km
NEW ROAD SURGERY
166 NEW ROAD, CROXLEY GREEN, RICKMANSWORTH, WD3 3HD
ODS code E82106
3.5 km
LITTLE BUSHEY SURGERY
CALIFORNIA LANE, BUSHEY HEATH, BUSHEY, WD23 1EZ
ODS code E82657
4.4 km
SHEEPCOT MEDICAL CENTRE
6 CUNNINGHAM WAY, WATFORD, WD25 7NL
ODS code E82096
4.6 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
Market Street
BCT · Watford
- 0.0 miles
Market Street
BCT · Watford
- 0.0 miles
Market Street
BCT · Watford
- 0.1 miles
St Mary's Road
BCT · Watford
- 0.1 miles
High Street
BCT · Watford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Watford 009I, 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
7,359 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 12
- Medium risk addresses
- 14
- Low risk addresses
- 8
- 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
88 open schools are in scope, including 54 primary and 10 secondary schools. Nisai Virtual Academy Ltd is the nearest published school at 308 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
6,568 published events cover 12 months, averaging 547.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,265 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.