Property market
The five-year median is £825,000 from 1 recorded sale in WD6 5PW. 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 5PW
Shenley · Hertsmere · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD6 5PW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD6
- Postcode sector
- WD6 5
- Latitude
- 51.677875
- Longitude
- -0.263742
- British National Grid easting
- 520,143
- British National Grid northing
- 199,105
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Hertsmere · E07000098
- Electoral ward
- Shenley · E05012192
- Parish or community
- E04004765
- Westminster constituency
- Hertsmere · E14001284
- Output area
- E00119771
- Lower layer super output area
- Hertsmere 004C · E01023583
- Middle layer super output area
- Hertsmere 004 · E02004899
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
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Silver Hill, Well End, Borehamwood, WD6 5PW | 14 March 2022 | £825,000 |
| 6, Silver Hill, Well End, Borehamwood, WD6 5PW | 12 February 2021 | £760,000 |
| 4, Silver Hill, Well End, Borehamwood, WD6 5PW | 23 October 2020 | £847,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.3 km
Hertswood Academy
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Woodlands Primary School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Parkside Community Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 551
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 222
- Anti social behaviour 111
- Vehicle crime 39
- Drugs 36
- Public order 35
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- WD6 5 residents
- 8,959
9 female, 5 male
Age bands in WD6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.2%
1,614 residents
913 residents
2,508 residents
2,221 residents
1,202 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WD6 5 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+
- 0%
- 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 straight-line
FAIRBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
4 FAIRWAY AVENUE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 1PR
ODS code E82012
2.1 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
BOREHAMWOOD SHOPPING CENTRE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 4PR
ODS code E82117
2.6 km
THE RED HOUSE GROUP
THE RED HOUSE SURGERY, 124 WATLING STREET, RADLETT, WD7 7JQ
ODS code E82085
3.7 km
SCHOPWICK SURGERY
EVERETT COURT, ROMELAND, ELSTREE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 3BJ
ODS code E82043
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Campions Close
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.5 miles
Campions Close
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.5 miles
Stapleton Road
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.5 miles
Stapleton Road
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.5 miles
Redwood Rise
BCT · Borehamwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hertsmere 004C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,058 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
34 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 5 secondary schools. Hertswood Academy is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
551 published events cover 12 months, averaging 45.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 222 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.