Property market
The five-year median is £335,000 from 7 recorded sales in WD6 4AJ. 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.
WD6 4AJ
Borehamwood Cowley Hill · Hertsmere · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Borehamwood
- Local authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere
- Postcode district
- WD6
- Postcode sector
- WD6 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD6 4AJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD6
- Postcode sector
- WD6 4
- Latitude
- 51.669942
- Longitude
- -0.285637
- British National Grid easting
- 518,650
- British National Grid northing
- 198,187
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Hertsmere · E07000098
- Electoral ward
- Borehamwood Cowley Hill · E05012181
- Parish or community
- E04004763
- Westminster constituency
- Hertsmere · E14001284
- Output area
- E00119550
- Lower layer super output area
- Hertsmere 006C · E01023536
- Middle layer super output area
- Hertsmere 006 · E02004901
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 WD6
Property
43 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 25, Allerton Road, Borehamwood, WD6 4AJ | 6 December 2024 | £478,000 |
| 31, Allerton Road, Borehamwood, WD6 4AJ | 1 August 2024 | £271,000 |
| 25, Allerton Road, Borehamwood, WD6 4AJ | 23 January 2024 | £280,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 4
- 320 m
Parkside Community Primary School
Foundation school
- 568 m
Meryfield Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Woodlands Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,710
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 682
- Anti social behaviour 281
- Shoplifting 115
- Public order 114
- Criminal damage and arson 113
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 83
- Postcode households
- 36
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- WD6 4 residents
- 8,330
45 female, 38 male
Age bands in WD6 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.6%
1,891 residents
1,015 residents
2,571 residents
2,111 residents
1,092 residents
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WD6 4 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
FAIRBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
4 FAIRWAY AVENUE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 1PR
ODS code E82012
1.5 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
BOREHAMWOOD SHOPPING CENTRE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 4PR
ODS code E82117
1.6 km
THE RED HOUSE GROUP
THE RED HOUSE SURGERY, 124 WATLING STREET, RADLETT, WD7 7JQ
ODS code E82085
2.6 km
SCHOPWICK SURGERY
EVERETT COURT, ROMELAND, ELSTREE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 3BJ
ODS code E82043
2.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Buckton Road
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.1 miles
Belford Road
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.1 miles
Berwick Road
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.1 miles
Baldock Way
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.2 miles
Aycliffe Road
BCT · Borehamwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hertsmere 006C, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,525 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 32
- Medium risk addresses
- 4
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
32 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 4 secondary schools. Parkside Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 320 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,710 published events cover 12 months, averaging 142.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 682 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.