Elstree

What is it like to live in Elstree?

Homes sold for a typical £455,000 in the 12 months to August 2026. At 41 of the 78 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts no home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 79 postcodes. The nearest school is Haberdashers' Girls' School, 1.4 km from the middle of its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Elstree & Borehamwood, 1.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Elstree?

Homes in Elstree sold for a typical £455,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 19 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £492,000 from 17 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

• Detached 3 sales, too few to price
• Semi-detached £485,000 7 sales
• Terraced £445,000 6 sales
• Flat or maisonette 3 sales, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole WD6 district, Elstree's main postcode district: a typical £448,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Elstree: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Elstree?

2 of the 79 postcodes now in use in Elstree came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 17 homes sold in Elstree were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WD6 district, 0%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Elstree?

Ofcom reports on 78 of the 79 postcodes in Elstree. At 41 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Elstree at risk of flooding?

1 of the 79 postcodes in Elstree has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts none of the homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Elstree?

There is no primary school at the postcodes in Elstree; these are the nearest to its middle. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Elstree?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Elstree is Elstree & Borehamwood Rail Station, 1.9 km away in a straight line.

• Elstree & Borehamwood Rail Station Railway station 1.9 kmCycle
• Radlett Rail Station Railway station 4.8 kmCycle
• Mill Hill Broadway Rail Station Railway station 4.9 kmCycle
• Stanmore Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 2.6 kmCycle

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Elstree?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Elstree. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Schopwick Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report April 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 020 3667 1850 350 mWalk

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Elstree safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 291 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Elstree over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: other crime 5, theft from the person 3, possession of weapons 3, robbery 2, shoplifting 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Elstree?

District, borough or city council

Hertsmere

County council

Hertfordshire

Parliamentary constituency

Hertsmere

Police force area

Hertfordshire

Region

East of England

Country

England

MP

Sir Oliver Dowden (Conservative)

All 79 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026. See all our data sources