TW9 3AS Richmond upon Thames

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Kew. Region: London.

Streets

Council tax

What each band costs in Richmond upon Thames in 2026-27: Band D £2,486 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,657£1,934£2,210£2,486£3,039£3,591£4,144£4,972

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band G (52% of about 710 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: yes, Kew Green (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 4.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

  • 58A, Waldeck Road: up to 9 homes, permissioned (380 m)
  • 66A, Waldeck Road: up to 5 homes, permissioned (380 m)
  • Land Rear of, Kew Bridge Road: up to 30 homes, permissioned (470 m (0.3 miles))
  • KEW BRIDGE STATION, Kew Bridge Road: up to 8 homes, permissioned (470 m (0.3 miles))
  • Griffin Park, Braemar Road, Brentford TW8 0NT: up to 75 homes, permissioned (620 m (0.4 miles))
  • LAND AT LIONEL ROAD, Lionel Road, TW8 9QR: up to 910 homes, permissioned (630 m (0.4 miles))
  • Land at Citroen Site: up to 441 homes, permissioned (660 m (0.4 miles))
  • NORTH EAST CAR PARK, CHISWICK VILLAGE: up to 12 homes, permissioned (690 m (0.4 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.

Flood risk

No address in this postcode is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 1 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 1 very low.

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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

Sources: 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.

Height above sea level

The postcode's addresses are about 4 m above sea level.

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 stationsKew Bridge 1.2 million journeys in 2024–25460 m (0.3 miles)
Kew Gardens 1.4 million journeys in 2024–25930 m (0.6 miles)
Gunnersbury 2.0 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramKew Gardens Underground Station930 m (0.6 miles)
Gunnersbury Underground Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Chiswick Park Underground Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waterloo Place Kew90 m
Bus or coach stationMontpelier Road / St Peters Way Ealing4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Ferry terminalKew Pier120 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa770 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points35 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge150 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR12.2 km (7.6 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. 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 Grove Park Terrace Surgery850 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kew Pharmacy890 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery370 m
HospitalClayponds Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brentford Service Station Cashzone550 m (0.3 miles)

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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kew Green 4.3 ha90 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Royal Botanic Gardens 129 ha310 m
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 950 m²120 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Westerley Ware Recreation Ground 8,710 m²60 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Short Lots Allotment 5,120 m²170 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 135 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Churchyard of Church of St Anne, to East of Church, a listed building (Grade II*), 220 m south-west. 114 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 7 of them Grade I and 8 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Churchyard of Church of St Anne, to East of ChurchListed building, Grade II*220 m south-west
Parish Church of St AnneListed building, Grade II*240 m south-west
Churchyard of Church of St Anne, to South of ChurchListed building, Grade II*250 m south-west
Zoffany HouseListed building, Grade II*260 m north-east
Kew Palace (remains of)Scheduled monument690 m (0.4 miles) west
Royal Botanic Gardens, KewWorld Heritage Site1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Gunnersbury ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.4 km (0.8 miles) north
Chiswick HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Chiswick HouseScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Oliver's IslandIsland310 m east
Hog HoleTidal water650 m (0.4 miles) west
The PondLake or reservoir790 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Woodland WalkWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Small ProfitsWetland2.7 km (1.7 miles) east
Conolly DellValley4.8 km (3 miles) north-west

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)17.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.7205
Particles (PM10)14.04015

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

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
60 to 64100
55 to 59500
Under 55066

6 of the postcode's 6 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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: 247 residents in 123 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 age4940
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over30%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)74%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)68%32%
Travel to work by car or van13%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%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 away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)71%34%
No qualifications5%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 8 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 Riverside.