Redheath Close Watford

51 addresses across 2 postcodes (WD25), about 390 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42414296.

  • Sales: 73 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £490,000 across 4 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Watford cost £408,659 in August 2026 (-0.4% on a year); private rents averaged £1,834 a month.
  • Energy: 36 homes have an energy certificate (B: 5, C: 15, D: 15, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Radon: Up to 3 to 5% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A41, carries 10,082 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Watford costs £2,447 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Garston (Hertfordshire), about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 210 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 100 to 101 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 45 of its 51 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sheepcot Medical Centre, about 760 m (0.5 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 550 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 45 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20254£490,000£345,000£675,000
20233£510,000£465,000£647,000
20215£244,000£213,000£470,000
20201£235,000£235,000£235,000
20191£225,000£225,000£225,000
20172£432,500£325,000£540,000
20163£314,000£235,000£393,800
20142£213,500£182,000£245,000
20131£134,000£134,000£134,000
20121£214,995£214,995£214,995
20111£197,500£197,500£197,500
20102£224,500£199,000£250,000
All 73 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Oct 20251 WD25 7AHDetached£470,000
24 Mar 20232 WD25 7AHDetached£647,000
1 Apr 20213 WD25 7AHDetached£470,000
20 Apr 20003 WD25 7AHDetached£165,000
8 Dec 20235 WD25 7AHSemi-detached£510,000
9 Jun 20085 WD25 7AHSemi-detached£275,000
31 Mar 20037 WD25 7AHSemi-detached£229,950
11 Apr 20168 WD25 7AHSemi-detached£393,800
19 Dec 20018 WD25 7AHDetached£170,000
2 Aug 201010 WD25 7AHSemi-detached£250,000
21 Dec 200910 WD25 7AHSemi-detached£174,995
5 Apr 200210 WD25 7AHSemi-detached£167,500
4 Jul 202511 WD25 7AHSemi-detached£510,000
11 May 200011 WD25 7AHSemi-detached£159,000
22 Sep 202312 WD25 7AHSemi-detached£465,000
25 Oct 199612 WD25 7AHSemi-detached£90,000
29 Sep 201717 WD25 7AHDetached£540,000
12 Apr 200118 WD25 7AHDetached£155,000
29 Dec 200920 WD25 7AHDetached£160,000
2 Oct 200920 WD25 7AHDetached£160,000
29 Mar 199620 WD25 7AHSemi-detached£82,000
27 Mar 202421 WD25 7AHSemi-detached£670,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Mar 200921 WD25 7AHSemi-detached£445,000
27 Jan 200421 WD25 7AHSemi-detached£335,000
10 Oct 202524 WD25 7AHSemi-detached£675,000
19 Apr 202132 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£213,000Leasehold.
21 May 199833 WD25 7AHTerraced£74,000Leasehold.
21 Apr 200634 WD25 7AHTerraced£138,000Leasehold.
2 Oct 200234 WD25 7AHTerraced£119,950Leasehold.
19 Dec 200235 WD25 7AHTerraced£165,000Leasehold.
4 Apr 200536 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£126,000Leasehold.
16 Sep 199936 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£69,250Leasehold.
2 Jul 200738 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£172,000Leasehold.
17 Aug 200739 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£207,000Leasehold.
18 Oct 200239 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£155,000Leasehold.
7 Dec 201241 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£214,995Leasehold.
31 Jul 200841 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£209,950Leasehold.
2 Aug 200241 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£139,950Leasehold.
9 May 199741 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£75,000Leasehold.
18 Jul 201442 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£182,000Leasehold.
22 Sep 200642 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£140,000Leasehold.
7 Sep 200442 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£139,950Leasehold.
5 Jun 199842 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£62,950Leasehold.
27 Jun 199742 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£55,000Leasehold.
27 Nov 202543 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£345,000Leasehold.
31 Mar 201043 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£199,000Leasehold.
28 Nov 200343 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£167,500Leasehold.
9 Jun 199843 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£78,500Leasehold.
18 Dec 202044 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£235,000Leasehold.
6 Jul 201644 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£235,000Leasehold.
6 Oct 201645 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£314,000Leasehold.
11 Mar 200545 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£170,000Leasehold.
21 Nov 200345 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£167,500Leasehold.
2 Aug 200646 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£159,500Leasehold.
2 Feb 200146 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£89,950Leasehold.
25 Aug 200448 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£139,000Leasehold.
9 Aug 200248 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£120,000Leasehold.
29 Mar 199648 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£49,000Leasehold.
23 Apr 200449 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£160,000Leasehold.
14 Dec 202150 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£244,000Leasehold.
19 Jul 201950 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£225,000Leasehold.
23 Jan 200450 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£127,000Leasehold.
9 Jul 200852 WD25 7AHTerraced£167,000Leasehold.
30 Apr 202153 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£315,000Leasehold.
28 Nov 201453 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£245,000Leasehold.
15 Jun 199854 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£63,950Leasehold.
30 Aug 201755 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£325,000Leasehold.
11 Feb 201155 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£197,500Leasehold.
30 Nov 200155 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£128,500Leasehold.
28 Feb 199755 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£65,950Leasehold.
30 Sep 202156 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£240,000Leasehold.
20 Dec 201356 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£134,000Leasehold.
31 Oct 199656 WD25 7AHFlat or maisonette£52,500Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Watford

A typical home in Watford cost £408,659 in August 2026, 0.4% less than a year before. That is 6% more than five years earlier and 12% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£941,650
Semi-detached£541,069
Terraced£435,927
Flat or maisonette£265,100
Bought by a first-time buyer£355,866

Private renters in Watford paid £1,834 a month on average in September 2026, 2.1% more than a year before. That is 32% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,268
Two bedrooms£1,602
Three bedrooms£1,830
Four or more bedrooms£2,657

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, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

36 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 77 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (7); Maisonette, end-terrace (7); Bungalow, semi-detached (5). Built: 1967-1975 (8); 1950-1966 (7); 1983-1990 (7). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (24); rented (private) (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (36 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 10,434 kWh of it on average in 2024, 13% less than the district's 11,931 kWh, and 2,510 kWh of electricity, 29% less than the district's 3,512 kWh. There are gas meters for about 91% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WD25 7AH492,100 kWh 448,621 kWh
WD25 7AQ151,684 kWh 149,728 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is WD25.

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.

Council tax

What each band costs in Watford in 2026-27: Band D £2,447 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,631£1,903£2,175£2,447£2,990£3,534£4,078£4,893

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (39% of about 790 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 street; 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 street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • 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)

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 on or by this street. 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 street's postcodes, 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.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 29 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 10 September 2026 to 14 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)
  • 10 September 2026 to 11 September 2026: AFFINITY WATER - C, Utility asset works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WD25 7AHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WD25 7AQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

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 street's postcodes.

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 street's postcodes.

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 on the street 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 highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 3 to 5%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

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.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 street's 51 addresses are between 100 m and 101 m above sea level (100 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

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WD25 7AH100%100%100%0%
WD25 7AQ100%100%100%0%

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 middle of the street, 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 stationsGarston (Hertfordshire) 53,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Watford North 65,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Kings Langley 507,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Evans Avenue Kingswood50 m
Car parksJacketts Field Patient & Visitor Car Park1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN20.9 km (13 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 middle of the street. 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 Sheepcot Medical Centre Requires improvement Jun 2025760 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chemilab Pharmacy660 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Happy Smile Company760 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalLangley House Community Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Care homes7 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lancaster Court Requires improvement Apr 2025170 m
Police stationWatford Police Station3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Watford - Abbotswood Park, Leavesden Cashzone900 m (0.6 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 middle of the street 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,990 m²210 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3.9 ha430 m (0.3 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 280 m²220 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.6 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,090 m²660 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 7.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cassiobury Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 3 km (1.9 miles) south-west. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cassiobury ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II3 km (1.9 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Harebreaks WoodWood920 m (0.6 miles) south
Albans WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Tanners WoodWood1.5 km (1 mile) north-west
Charlotte's ValeValley2.2 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Mill StreamLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-west
Jacotts HillHill3.1 km (1.9 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 middle of the street. 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)11.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)12.34015

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 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 6930
60 to 64330
55 to 5990
Under 55651

45 of the street's 51 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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 Watford: see them on the Watford page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Kingsway Infants' SchoolPrimary5–7230 m No published inspection None published
Kingsway Junior SchoolPrimary7–11260 m Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 80% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15% at the higher standard (2025; 86% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
Leavesden JMI SchoolPrimary3–11370 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 40% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 46% in 2023)
Kingswood Nursery SchoolNursery2–5680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Cherry Tree Primary SchoolPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
The Orchard Primary SchoolPrimary3–11950 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 20% at the higher standard (2025; 81% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
Alban Wood Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 74% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 23% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Holy Rood Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 84% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 17% at the higher standard (2025; 77% in 2024 and 80% in 2023)
Beechfield SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) 47% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
Future Academies WatfordSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.6 (39.8 in 2025 and 39.4 in 2024); 40% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 0% AAB or better; progress well above average
Parkgate Infants' and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection None published

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.4 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 390 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Ashbourne Day Nurseries at Leavesden WD25 7QZ Full day care 72 Mar 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas 390 m
FunFest Holiday Club WD25 7QZ Out-of-school day care 48 Not inspected yet 390 m
Little Blossom Nursery School (Leavesden) WD25 0BW Full day care 50 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 500 m (0.3 miles)
The WonderWorks @ Leavesden WD25 7GS Full day care 57 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 660 m (0.4 miles)
Orbital Pre School WD25 7QU Sessional day care 30 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 760 m (0.5 miles)
Junior Adventures Group @ The Orchard WD24 WD24 5JW Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 950 m (0.6 miles)
Bright Little Stars Nursery WD25 0EA Full day care 78 Outstanding (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Rainbow Childcare WD25 7NX Out-of-school day care 20 Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Let's Play @ Watford Woodside WD25 7HH Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Little Hands Adventure Club WD17 4FS Out-of-school day care 50 Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 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 middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Lancaster Court WD25 7AJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good24 Nov 2025
HCL @ Kingsway Infants School WD25 0ESSchool/college/university220 m5 Very good2 Jun 2026
HCL @ Kingsway Junior School WD25 0JHSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good24 Jun 2025
Caterlink @ Leavesden Green JMI School WD25 7QZSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good5 Jun 2025
Ashbourne Day Nurseries WD25 7QZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good12 Nov 2025
Next Thing Education Camps @ Leavesden Green JMI School And Nursery WD25 7QZSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good10 Apr 2025
Costcutter WD25 0HARetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory16 Sep 2025
Nisa WD25 7QXRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Aug 2018
Haines Fish & Grill WD25 7QXTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory25 Feb 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

45 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences22
Anti-social behaviour5
Criminal damage and arson5
Other theft3
Burglary3
Public order2
Vehicle crime2
Drugs2
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Harris Road (20); On or near Ross Crescent (13); On or near Foxlands Close (4); On or near Westland Close (3); On or near Comet Close (2).

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 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

4 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 3 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a motorcyclist. Most were on roads with a 50 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202210
202300
202410
202521
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
12 Jun 2025 14:07 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
31 Jan 2025 08:50 Slight 1 person A405, 50 mph Wet road
24 Mar 2024 10:20 Slight 1 person A405, 50 mph Daylight
23 May 2022 19:08 Slight 2 people A405, 50 mph Wet road

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 A41, with 10,082 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 390 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A41 Not recorded 10,082 estimated; counted 2023 2% +23% since 2015 390 m
A41 Not recorded 8,211 estimated; counted 2023 2% +25% since 2015 390 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.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 549 residents in 230 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 streetEngland
Median age4340
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)68%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented27%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street 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.

What has changed

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • WD25 7AH: 50 addresses of 51 in the postcode
  • WD25 7AQ: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Foxlands Close · Privet Drive · Ross Crescent · Comet Close · Westland Close · Trident Road · Harris Road · High Road · Humberstone Close · Trident Road · Sunderland Grove · Leveret Close

All the streets in WD25 and across Watford.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.