EN11 8RL Broxbourne

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Hoddesdon North. Region: East of England.

Streets

House prices and rents in Broxbourne

A typical home in Broxbourne cost £414,692 in August 2026, 2.3% more than a year before. That is 11% more than five years earlier and 20% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£897,035
Semi-detached£528,531
Terraced£414,281
Flat or maisonette£225,424
Bought by a first-time buyer£343,542

Private renters in Broxbourne paid £1,692 a month on average in September 2026, 3.5% more than a year before. That is 33% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,136
Two bedrooms£1,456
Three bedrooms£1,788
Four or more bedrooms£2,506

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Council tax

What each band costs in Broxbourne in 2026-27: Band D £2,306 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,538£1,794£2,050£2,306£2,819£3,332£3,844£4,613

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (32% of about 1,150 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

3 energy projects near the postcode, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Ratty's Lane Sustainable Energy Facility (Waste AD) Broxbourne 7/0510-10 Anaerobic digestion 3 MW Operational Jul 2016 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Ratty's Lane Sustainable Energy Facility (ACT) Broxbourne 7/0510-10 Advanced Conversion Technologies 9.6 MW Being built Jul 2016 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Rye Meads Sewerage Treatment Works East Hertfordshire 3/14/0768/FP Anaerobic digestion 2.3 MW Operational Jul 2015 2.8 km (1.8 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this postcode.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The postcode's 29 addresses are between 52 m and 54 m above sea level (53 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsRye House 436,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Broxbourne 1.8 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
St Margarets (Herts) 351,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest College Road Hoddesdon410 m (0.3 miles)
Bus or coach stationBus Station Hertford5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Car parksJBF HGV Parking1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station570 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Stansted Airport STN22.2 km (14 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Amwell Surgery Good Jan 2024520 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots540 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery580 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalHertford County Hospital Good Apr 20166.1 km (3.8 miles)
Care homes5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rose Vale Good Feb 2023350 m
Police stationHoddesdon Police Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM590 m (0.4 miles)

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.2 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 590 m (0.4 miles) from the postcode's centre.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Premier Education - High Leigh EN11 8GF Out-of-school day care 24 Not inspected yet 590 m (0.4 miles)
St Catherines C of E Private Nursery EN11 8HT Sessional day care 26 Good (Oct 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 640 m (0.4 miles)
St Catherine's SSS Sports Camp EN11 8HT Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 640 m (0.4 miles)
Tiny Toes Nursery LTD (Hoddesdon) EN11 9AB Full day care 38 Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 650 m (0.4 miles)
Tiddley Tots Nursery EN11 8SX Full day care 88 Good (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 690 m (0.4 miles)
Cedar Park Day Nursery EN11 8SX Full day care 90 Not inspected yet 690 m (0.4 miles)
St Augustine's Under 5's EN11 8DR Sessional day care 36 Outstanding (Feb 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 770 m (0.5 miles)
Cornerstones Pre-School EN11 0PE Full day care 40 Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 860 m (0.5 miles)
Sheredes Pre-School EN11 8LL Sessional day care 24 Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Jousters at Sheredes EN11 8LL Out-of-school day care 44 Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 841 childminders and 251 home childcarers (nannies) in Hertfordshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre.

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,690 m²540 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Barclay Park 21 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 130 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldPound Close 3.4 ha840 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lord Street Allotment Gardens 1,100 m²240 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 21 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Parish Church of St Paul, a listed building (Grade II*), 500 m (0.3 miles) east. 54 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Parish Church of St PaulListed building, Grade II*500 m (0.3 miles) east
The Swan InnListed building, Grade II*540 m (0.3 miles) east
Rathmore HouseListed building, Grade II*670 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Jacobean Wing (east) and Victorian Wing (north) of Rawdon HouseListed building, Grade II*760 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Motte castle south of Cock LaneScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) south-west
Hoddesdon Park Wood moated site, HoddesdonScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Rye House moated enclosure and gatehouseScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Lanthorn's WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Admirals Walk LakeLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Dells WoodWood1.4 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Box WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Baas HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Nazeing MarshWetland3.4 km (2.1 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6920
60 to 64200
55 to 5960
Under 55129

28 of the postcode's 29 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 250 m of the postcode's centre. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported around the postcode in 2021 to 2025.

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A10 between A10 main route and A1170, with 22,940 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 170 m from the postcode.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A10 A10 main route to A1170 22,940 estimated; counted 2023 6% -0% since 2015 170 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Broxbourne: see them on the Broxbourne page.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 478 residents in 196 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age3940
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)67%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work69%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 5 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Winterscroft Road.