Property market
The five-year median is £605,000 from 1 recorded sale in WD24 7LY. 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.
WD24 7LY
Tudor · Watford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD24 7LY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD24
- Postcode sector
- WD24 7
- Latitude
- 51.676840
- Longitude
- -0.381372
- British National Grid easting
- 512,013
- British National Grid northing
- 198,803
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Watford · E07000103
- Electoral ward
- Tudor · E05011055
- Parish or community
- E43000082
- Westminster constituency
- Watford · E14001568
- Output area
- E00121340
- Lower layer super output area
- Watford 005C · E01023897
- Middle layer super output area
- Watford 005 · E02004972
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 WD24
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 11, Douglas Avenue, Watford, WD24 7LY | 19 October 2023 | £605,000 |
| 1, Douglas Avenue, Watford, WD24 7LY | 20 April 2021 | £520,000 |
| 3, Douglas Avenue, Watford, WD24 7LY | 5 March 2021 | £440,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 73
- Primary
- 46
- Secondary
- 10
- 739 m
Parkgate Infants' and Nursery School
Community school
- 755 m
Knutsford Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 798 m
The Grove Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,478
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 841
- Anti social behaviour 366
- Other theft 333
- Vehicle crime 204
- Criminal damage and arson 160
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 30
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- WD24 7 residents
- 5,416
16 female, 14 male
Age bands in WD24 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.9%
913 residents
509 residents
1,429 residents
1,375 residents
924 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WD24 7 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
12
within 5 km
GARSTON MEDICAL CENTRE
6A NORTH WESTERN AVENUE, WATFORD, WD25 9GP
ODS code E82017
901 m
SUTHERGREY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
37A ST. JOHNS ROAD, WATFORD, WD17 1LS
ODS code E82015
2.2 km
THE ELMS SURGERY
38 THE AVENUE, WATFORD, WD17 4NT
ODS code E82069
2.3 km
WATFORD HEALTH CENTRE
GROUND FLOOR, COLNE HOUSE, 21 UPTON ROAD, WATFORD, WD18 0JP
ODS code E82045
2.6 km
SHEEPCOT MEDICAL CENTRE
6 CUNNINGHAM WAY, WATFORD, WD25 7NL
ODS code E82096
3.0 km
ABBOTSWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
12 KATHERINE PLACE, COLLEGE ROAD, ABBOTS LANGLEY, WD5 0BT
ODS code E82105
3.1 km
ATTENBOROUGH SURGERY
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82124
3.5 km
MANOR VIEW PRACTICE
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82073
3.5 km
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code E82013
4.0 km
SAS WEST HERTS
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code Y08362
4.0 km
VINE HOUSE HEALTH CENTRE
87-89 HIGH STREET, ABBOTS LANGLEY, WD5 0AL
ODS code E82046
4.0 km
THE RED HOUSE GROUP
THE RED HOUSE SURGERY, 124 WATLING STREET, RADLETT, WD7 7JQ
ODS code E82085
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Widgeon Way
BCT · Garston
- 0.1 miles
Widgeon Way
BCT · Garston
- 0.1 miles
Douglas Avenue
BCT · North Watford
- 0.1 miles
Douglas Avenue
BCT · North Watford
- 0.2 miles
Garsmouth Way
BCT · Garston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Watford 005C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,522 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
73 open schools are in scope, including 46 primary and 10 secondary schools. Parkgate Infants' and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 739 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,478 published events cover 12 months, averaging 206.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 841 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.