W4 4AN Hounslow

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Chiswick Gunnersbury. Region: London.

Streets

Council tax

What each band costs in Hounslow in 2026-27: Band D £2,186 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,457£1,700£1,943£2,186£2,671£3,157£3,643£4,371

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band D (39% of about 1,080 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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): Dwellinghouses (C3) to small HMOs (C4) - borough-wide Article 4 Direction.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

  • Garages at Garth Court, Chiswick, W4 4QL: up to 3 homes, permissioned (110 m)
  • 361-365, Chiswick High Road: up to 34 homes, permissioned (310 m)
  • NORTH EAST CAR PARK, CHISWICK VILLAGE: up to 12 homes, permissioned (360 m)
  • 66A, Waldeck Road: up to 5 homes, permissioned (640 m)
  • 100 Bollo Lane, permissioned (640 m)
  • 100 Bollo Lane, permissioned (640 m)
  • 58A, Waldeck Road: up to 9 homes, permissioned (660 m)
  • 396-400, Chiswick High Road: up to 34 homes, permissioned (690 m)

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: 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: 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 8 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 0%, gigabit 0% 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 stationsGunnersbury 2.0 million journeys in 2024–2520 m
Kew Bridge 1.2 million journeys in 2024–25870 m
South Acton 747,000 journeys in 2024–25940 m
Underground, metro or tramGunnersbury Underground Station10 m
Chiswick Park Underground Station590 m
Acton Town Underground Station1.3 km
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m, 35 within 800 m; nearest Gunnersbury Station50 m
Bus or coach stationMontpelier Road / St Peters Way Ealing3.9 km
Ferry terminalKew Pier1.0 km
Car parks3 within 800 m; nearest Parking (spare 2) on Oxford Road North230 m
EV charging points35 within 1.6 km; nearest bp pulse Charging Station280 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR13.0 km

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 surgeries11 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Grove Park Terrace Surgery810 m
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Sabel Pharmacy LTD500 m
NHS dentists14 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery200 m
HospitalClayponds Hospital1.7 km
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service1.2 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Rontec - Chiswick Flyover Cashzone580 m

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 garden3 within 800 m; nearest Turnham Green 3.2 ha500 m
Largest park within 800 mGunnersbury Park 75 ha760 m
Play area5 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,030 m²390 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 7,640 m²410 m
Allotments2 within 800 m; nearest Manor Gardens Allotments 1,910 m²630 m

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 83 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Zoffany House, a listed building (Grade II*), 760 m south-west. 62 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Zoffany HouseListed building, Grade II*760 m south-west
East Stables in Gunnersbury ParkListed building, Grade II*900 m north-west
Voysey HouseListed building, Grade II*910 m east
Gunnersbury ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.2 km north-west
Chiswick HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.3 km south-east
Chiswick HouseScheduled monument1.5 km south-east
Kew Palace (remains of)Scheduled monument1.6 km south-west
Royal Botanic Gardens, KewWorld Heritage Site2.2 km south-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Oliver's IslandIsland870 m south-west
PotomacLake or reservoir1.2 km west
Barons PondLake or reservoir1.4 km north-west
Hog HoleTidal water1.5 km south-west
Small ProfitsWetland2.5 km south-east
Woodland WalkWood2.6 km south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)19.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.1205
Particles (PM10)15.64015

All three are within the UK legal limits; all three are 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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6902
Under 5520

2 of the postcode's 2 addresses at 55 dB or more from railways, 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: 313 residents in 141 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 age3240
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)18%61%
Owned outright11%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented80%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)60%32%
Travel to work by car or van15%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram11%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)56%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)70%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 6 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 Chiswick High Road.