116 addresses across 4 postcodes (WD23), about 300 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 17220986.
Sales: 174 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £375,000 across 5 sales.
Energy: 102 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, B: 41, C: 35, D: 17, E: 7, G: 1).
Flood: 95 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Hertsmere costs £2,406 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 90% to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Watford High Street, about 670 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden, Fisher's Field, is about 250 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 54 to 60 m above sea level.
Noise: 7 of its 116 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Manor View Practice, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 1,110 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 60% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 85 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
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)
102 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 67 m².
Most common: Flat (59); House, mid-terrace (20); House, semi-detached (17). Built: 2007-2011 (32); 2009 (31); 1900-1929 (14). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (37); rented (private) (24); rented (social) (6).
What each band costs in Hertsmere in 2026-27: Band D £2,406 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
£1,604
£1,871
£2,139
£2,406
£2,940
£3,475
£4,010
£4,812
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (37% of about 780 homes).
A1%
B4%
C35%
D37%
E18%
F4%
G1%
H0%
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 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: 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 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.
Roadworks
Finished in the last three months
10 September 2026: Whyfibre Limited, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, 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, 48 addresses are in areas at high risk, 47 at medium risk and 14 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.
Rivers and the sea alone: of the 110 homes the Environment Agency counts, 47 are in areas at high risk, 47 medium, 14 low and 0 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: at least one 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.
Postcode
Planning zone
Addresses at high / medium / low risk
Groundwater
WD23 2FE
zone 3
30 / 32 / 9
unlikely
WD23 2JE
zone 3
3 / 15 / 0
unlikely
WD23 2JD
zone 3
6 / 0 / 5
unlikely
WD23 2HR
zone 3
9 / 0 / 0
unlikely
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.
The street's 116 addresses are between 54 m and 60 m above sea level (57 m on average); the ground rises about 5 m from the lowest to the highest.
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)
Postcode
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)
Gigabit
Below 10 Mbit/s
WD23 2FE
100%
100%
100%
0%
WD23 2HR
100%
100%
90%
0%
WD23 2JD
100%
100%
100%
0%
WD23 2JE
100%
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.
Nearest
Distance
Railway stations
Watford High Street 1.4 million journeys in 2024–25
670 m (0.4 miles)
Bushey 1.2 million journeys in 2024–25
1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Watford Junction 6.9 million journeys in 2024–25
1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops
1 stop within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Extra Watford
340 m
Car parks
3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lambert Court Car Park
210 m
EV charging points
5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp Pulse
660 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights
London Heathrow Airport LHR
21.2 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. 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.
Nearest
Distance
GP surgeries
4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Manor View Practice
1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies
10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy
560 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists
12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Better Care Clinic
1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM
450 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 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.
Nearest
Distance
Park or garden
1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fisher's Field 3.3 ha
250 m
Play area
6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed110 m²
230 m
Playing field
3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waterfields Recreation Ground 2.1 ha
460 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments
Timberlake Allotments 1.5 ha
870 m (0.5 miles)
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 3.3 hectares in all.
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Frogmore House, a listed building (Grade II*), 720 m (0.4 miles) south. 56 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.
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)
Pollutant
Here
UK limit
WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
13.7
40
10
Fine particles (PM2.5)
8.0
20
5
Particles (PM10)
12.8
40
15
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)
Level
Road traffic
Railways
55 to 59
7
0
Under 55
109
116
7 of the street's 116 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 Hertsmere: see them on the Hertsmere page.
Nearest schools
Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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.
School
Phase
Ages
Distance
Inspection
Central Primary School
Primary
3–11
600 m (0.4 miles)
Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bushey and Oxhey Infant School
Primary
5–7
940 m (0.6 miles)
Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Watford St John's Church of England Primary School Church of England/Christian
Primary
4–11
1 km (0.6 miles)
No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Field Junior School
Primary
7–11
1 km (0.6 miles)
No published inspection
Watford Field School (Infant & Nursery)
Primary
3–7
1 km (0.6 miles)
Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Queens' School
Secondary
11–18
1 km (0.6 miles)
No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Watford Grammar School for Girls Church of England
Secondary
11–19
1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bushey Manor Junior School
Primary
7–11
1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Highwood Primary School
Primary
3–11
1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chater Junior School
Primary
7–11
1.4 km (0.9 miles)
No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Grange Academy
Secondary
11–18
1.4 km (0.9 miles)
No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School and Nursery Roman Catholic
Primary
3–11
1.5 km (0.9 miles)
No published inspection
Food hygiene ratings nearby
Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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.
Business
Type
Distance
Rating
Rated
Fima Coffee House WD23 2ED
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
60 m
5 Very good
12 Feb 2026
Londis WD23 2ED
Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets
60 m
5 Very good
26 Aug 2025
Zams Peri Peri WD23 2ED
Takeaway/sandwich shop
60 m
5 Very good
9 Sep 2025
JP News Food & Wine WD23 2ED
Retailers - other
60 m
5 Very good
31 Jul 2026
T & O Stores WD23 2ED
Retailers - other
60 m
5 Very good
19 Mar 2025
Kandy Cafe WD23 2ED
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
60 m
5 Very good
6 Oct 2026
Sea Breeze WD23 2ED
Takeaway/sandwich shop
70 m
5 Very good
26 Aug 2026
TeamSport Indoor Karting WD23 2NZ
Other catering premises
160 m
5 Very good
31 Jul 2024
Parents Paradise Ltd WD23 2NZ
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
200 m
5 Very good
28 Oct 2025
Bush-E-Babes WD23 2EQ
Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises
240 m
5 Very good
5 Aug 2025
St Paul's Church WD23 2EQ
Other catering premises
240 m
5 Very good
25 Feb 2025
Premier Inn Watford Central WD17 2NJ
Hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house
350 m
5 Very good
29 May 2025
Step By Step Nursery WD23 2DD
Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises
390 m
5 Very good
29 Sep 2025
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.
85 recorded crimes by category
Category
Crimes
Violence and sexual offences
35
Anti-social behaviour
30
Other theft
6
Criminal damage and arson
3
Drugs
3
Vehicle crime
2
Burglary
2
Other crime
2
Public order
2
Most of these are attached to: On or near Woolmerdine Court (27); On or near Lambert Court (12); On or near Bushey Hall Road (11); On or near Greatham Road (7); On or near Bendysh Road (7).
People and work
Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,113 residents in 459 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 street
England
Median age
37
40
Children under 15
21%
17%
Aged 65 and over
10%
18%
Homes
Around this street
England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)
60%
61%
Owned outright
26%
33%
Shared ownership
under 1%
1%
Social rented
18%
17%
Private rented
22%
21%
Work and commuting
Around this street
England
Adults (16 and over) in work
68%
57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)
5%
6%
Retired (of adults)
13%
22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)
4%
4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)
39%
32%
Travel to work by car or van
40%
48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram
7%
4%
By any public transport, including bus
10%
8%
On foot or by bicycle
9%
10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)
55%
65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away
7%
8%
Education and languages
Around this street
England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)
39%
34%
No qualifications
14%
18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification
5%
5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)
87%
91%
Cannot speak English well or at all
1%
2%
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street 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.
What has changed
Food hygiene ratings Sabores Restaurant (other catering premises, WD23 2EA) is no longer listed; it was rated 1 Major improvement necessary found 31 October 2026
Food hygiene ratings Kandy Cafe (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WD23 2ED) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 6 October 2026) found 31 October 2026
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.
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.
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.