Hoddesdon
Hoddesdon is covered by postcode districts CM19, EN8, EN10, EN11, SG12 and SG13. It is mostly in the Broxbourne council area: 1,006 of its 1,057 postcodes. The others are in Epping Forest and East Hertfordshire. 1,019 are in Hertfordshire and 38 in Essex.
Every postcode in Hoddesdon, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 55
- In use before 2020: 1,002
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 1,057 postcodes in Hoddesdon that ONS places, 55 are new since 2020 and 1,002 were in use before 2020.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.7552, longitude -0.0138. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them
The 5 newest postcodes
What is it like to live in Hoddesdon?
Homes sold for a typical £418,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.6% on the 12 months before. At 856 of the 1,011 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 625 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 95 of its 1,057 postcodes. It has at least 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Broxbourne, 950 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
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 Hoddesdon?
Homes in Hoddesdon sold for a typical £418,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 459 sales, down 1.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £802,500 69 sales
- Semi-detached £462,250 98 sales
- Terraced £420,000 152 sales
- Flat or maisonette £246,750 140 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole EN11 district, Hoddesdon's main postcode district: a typical £393,750.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Hoddesdon: 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 Hoddesdon?
55 of the 1,057 postcodes now in use in Hoddesdon came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 11 of the 564 homes sold in Hoddesdon were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the EN11 district, 11%.
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
| Period | In Hoddesdon | Across the EN11 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 1 of 459 (Under 1%) | 0 of 246 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 11 of 564 (2%) | 39 of 345 (11%) |
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 Hoddesdon?
Ofcom reports on 1,011 of the 1,057 postcodes in Hoddesdon. At 856 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Hoddesdon at risk of flooding?
95 of the 1,057 postcodes in Hoddesdon have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 625 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 Hoddesdon?
The open schools at the postcodes in Hoddesdon (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- St Cross Catholic Primary School150 m 201 pupils, 210 places
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School400 m 238 pupils, 240 places
- Sheredes Primary School650 m 456 pupils, 480 places
- St Catherine's Hoddesdon CofE Primary School850 m 383 pupils, 420 places
- Rivers Education Support Centre1.2 km 15 pupils, 56 places
- Broxbourne CofE Primary School1.5 km 243 pupils, 240 places
- Forres Primary Academy2.0 km 199 pupils, 420 places
- Wormley CofE Primary School2.1 km 452 pupils, 480 places
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 Hoddesdon?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Hoddesdon is Broxbourne Rail Station, 950 m away in a straight line.
- Broxbourne Rail Station Railway station 950 mWalk
- Rye House Rail Station Railway station 2.1 kmCycle
- St Margarets (Herts) Rail Station Railway station 3.8 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 Hoddesdon?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Hoddesdon, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- The Limes Surgery Phone 01992 464533 500 mWalk
- Amwell Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2024 · Phone 01992 938120 550 mWalk
- Park Lane Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Requires improvement CQC report March 2024 · Phone 01992 465555 1.1 kmWalk
- Hailey View Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01992 463363 2.4 kmCycle
- The Maples Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01992 450040 3.7 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Hoddesdon safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,937 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Hoddesdon 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
- 170 September 2025
- 200 October 2025
- 146 November 2025
- 163 December 2025
- 139 January 2026
- 133 February 2026
- 140 March 2026
- 151 April 2026
- 177 May 2026
- 173 June 2026
- 158 July 2026
- 187 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 57, other crime 32, robbery 22, theft from the person 17, bicycle theft 8, possession of weapons 8.
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.
Crime around one postcodeSource: 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 Hoddesdon?
- Councils
- Broxbourne (1,006), Epping Forest (38) and East Hertfordshire (13)
- County councils
- Hertfordshire (1,019) and Essex (38)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Broxbourne (1,019) and Harlow (38)
- Police force areas
- Hertfordshire (1,019) and Essex (38)
- Region
- East of England
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Hoddesdon
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Hoddesdon is in Broxbourne; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Broxbourne about council tax Council tax, on broxbourne.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Hoddesdon
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Hoddesdon postcodes
1,057 postcodes in use in Hoddesdon, by district:
Those districts are in the EN postcode area, SG postcode area and CM postcode area.
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Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Hoddesdon
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Hoddesdon's £418,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Hoddesdon
- What is it like to live in Hoddesdon?
- Homes sold for a typical £418,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.6% on the 12 months before. At 856 of the 1,011 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 625 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 95 of its 1,057 postcodes. It has at least 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Broxbourne, 950 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. 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.
- What is the postcode for Hoddesdon?
- Hoddesdon is covered by postcode districts CM19, EN8, EN10, EN11, SG12 and SG13, across 1,057 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Hoddesdon?
- Homes in Hoddesdon sold for a typical £418,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 459 sales, down 1.6% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Hoddesdon?
- In Hoddesdon, primary schools at its postcodes include St Cross Catholic Primary School, St Augustine's Catholic Primary School and Sheredes Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Robert Barclay Academy, Rivers Education Support Centre and The Broxbourne School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Does Hoddesdon have a railway station?
- Yes: Broxbourne is 950 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Hoddesdon, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Hoddesdon?
- Ofcom reports on 1,011 of the 1,057 postcodes in Hoddesdon. At 856 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Hoddesdon at risk of flooding?
- 95 of the 1,057 postcodes in Hoddesdon have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 625 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Hoddesdon?
- 55 of the 1,057 postcodes now in use in Hoddesdon came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 11 of the 564 homes sold in Hoddesdon were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the EN11 district, 11%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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