W4 4GF Hounslow

Postcode no longer in use, introduced August 2003. Ward: Chiswick Gunnersbury. Region: London.

Streets

House prices and rents in Hounslow

A typical home in Hounslow cost £528,051 in August 2026, 1.5% less than a year before. That is 11% more than five years earlier and 17% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£1,047,015
Semi-detached£720,301
Terraced£617,676
Flat or maisonette£353,291
Bought by a first-time buyer£460,699

Private renters in Hounslow paid £1,962 a month on average in September 2026, 3.6% more than a year before. That is 46% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,589
Two bedrooms£1,956
Three bedrooms£2,254
Four or more bedrooms£3,093

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 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 (31% of about 1,130 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: yes, Turnham Green, Turnham Green (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 5.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Change of use or development that would result in new dwellings (Class MA/ZA), 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.

Listed buildings

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

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the postcode, operating or planned.

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

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.

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.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Gas and electricity use

The postcode does not have the 5 or more domestic meters needed for figures to be published.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 addresses are about 6 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

No Ofcom figures for this postcode.

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 2024–25920 m (0.6 miles)
South Acton 747,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Chiswick 707,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramChiswick Park Underground Station500 m (0.3 miles)
Turnham Green Underground Station630 m (0.4 miles)
Gunnersbury Underground Station920 m (0.6 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 37 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Clifton Gardens Turnham Green60 m
Bus or coach stationMontpelier Road / St Peters Way Ealing4.4 km (2.8 miles)
Ferry terminalKew Pier1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sainsburys Chiswick Car Park340 m
EV charging points43 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station460 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR13.9 km (8.7 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 surgeries11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Holly Road Medical Centre Good Nov 2016150 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots70 m
NHS dentists14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chiswick Dental & Implant Clinic30 m
HospitalClayponds Hospital2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Clifton Gardens Resource Centre Good Jul 2025270 m
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service250 m
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barclays Bank Cash Machine470 m (0.3 miles)

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 560 m (0.3 miles); the nearest is 30 m from the postcode's centre.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Fairyland Nursery W4 4PH Full day care 59 Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 30 m
Aktiva Camps at Belmont W4 5UL Out-of-school day care 128 Not inspected yet 150 m
Chiswick House Day Nursery and Preschool W4 5UJ Full day care 57 Good (Nov 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 190 m
Petite Performers Chiswick W4 2AE Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 200 m
Rocks Lane Montessori W4 1RZ Sessional day care 26 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 260 m
First Class Learning - Chiswick W4 4NF Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 300 m
Learning Pandas Day Nursery W4 5LE Full day care 69 Good (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 540 m (0.3 miles)
Sparks Chiswick W4 2JR Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 560 m (0.3 miles)
Dolce Senso Bake N Play After School Club W4 2JR Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 560 m (0.3 miles)
Club Sporters & Leisure W4 2JR Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 560 m (0.3 miles)

Ofsted also registers 118 childminders and 88 home childcarers (nannies) in Hounslow. 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Turnham Green 3.2 ha80 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Acton Green Common 4.5 ha370 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,890 m²280 m
Playing fieldHomefield Recreation Ground 2.8 ha800 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,870 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 10 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Voysey House, a listed building (Grade II*), 0 m. 279 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 14 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Voysey HouseListed building, Grade II*0 m
14, South Parade W4Listed building, Grade II*450 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Temple (Rustic House) at End of Yew Walk North East of Chiswick HouseListed building, Grade I600 m (0.4 miles) south
The TabardListed building, Grade II*660 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Chiswick HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade I840 m (0.5 miles) south
Chiswick HouseScheduled monument940 m (0.6 miles) south
Walpole HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Royal Botanic Gardens, KewWorld Heritage Site2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Chiswick EyotIsland1.2 km (0.8 miles) east
Corney ReachLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Leg o' Mutton ReservoirLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Oliver's IslandIsland1.5 km (1 mile) south-west
Small ProfitsWetland1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Woodland WalkWood3.2 km (2 miles) south-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)18.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.9205
Particles (PM10)14.54015

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 64800
Under 55088

8 of the postcode's 8 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.

36 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported around the postcode in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 5 serious and 31 slight, in which 5 people were seriously hurt. 11 involved a pedestrian; 14 involved a cyclist; 8 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 36% happened in the dark, and 22% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202150
2022103
202350
202490
202572
The most recent 10 of 36
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
15 Dec 2025 17:45 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A315, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
26 Nov 2025 19:50 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
30 Sep 2025 08:25 Slight 1 person Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
2 Sep 2025 21:00 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A315, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
27 Aug 2025 19:15 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
28 Jul 2025 14:00 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
25 Jun 2025 19:23 Slight 1 person A3000, 30 mph Daylight
11 Dec 2024 18:40 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A3000, 20 mph Daylight
19 Nov 2024 07:00 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A315, 20 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
16 Nov 2024 09:52 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A315, 20 mph Daylight

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 A315 between A3000 and A316, with 12,909 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 270 m from the postcode.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A315 A3000 to A316 12,909 estimated; counted 2018 1% -15% since 2015 270 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 Hounslow: see them on the Hounslow 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: 361 residents in 146 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 age3440
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)24%61%
Owned outright9%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented25%17%
Private rented51%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)55%32%
Travel to work by car or van10%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram11%4%
By any public transport, including bus16%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)59%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)77%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 7 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 Sandersons Lane.