Potters Bar
Potters Bar is covered by postcode district EN6. It is mostly in the Hertsmere council area: 572 of its 628 postcodes. The others are in Welwyn Hatfield.
Every postcode in Potters Bar, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 18
- At medium risk at worst: 2
- At low risk at worst: 4
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 604
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 628 postcodes in Potters Bar that ONS places, 18 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 4 are at low risk at worst and 604 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
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. 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 51.6970, longitude -0.1859. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
The postcodes at high risk
18 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Potters Bar?
Homes sold for a typical £590,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 519 of the 603 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 86 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 24 of its 628 postcodes. It has 8 primary schools and 2 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Potters Bar, 450 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Potters Bar?
Homes in Potters Bar sold for a typical £590,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 229 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £560,000 from 295 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £777,500 42 sales
- Semi-detached £630,000 113 sales
- Terraced £455,000 30 sales
- Flat or maisonette £297,500 44 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole EN6 district, Potters Bar's main postcode district: a typical £595,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Potters Bar: 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 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Potters Bar?
16 of the 628 postcodes now in use in Potters Bar came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 295 homes sold in Potters Bar were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the EN6 district, 6%.
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 Potters Bar | Across the EN6 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 1 of 229 (Under 1%) | 3 of 287 (1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 0 of 295 (0%) | 25 of 432 (6%) |
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.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Potters Bar?
Ofcom reports on 603 of the 628 postcodes in Potters Bar. At 519 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.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Potters Bar at risk of flooding?
24 of the 628 postcodes in Potters Bar 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 86 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Potters Bar?
The open schools at the postcodes in Potters Bar (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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School450 m 226 pupils, 210 places
- Cranborne Primary School1.0 km 448 pupils, 420 places
- Stormont School1.0 km 112 pupils, 172 places
- Lochinver House School1.0 km 314 pupils, 370 places
- Pope Paul Catholic Primary School1.2 km 214 pupils, 210 places
- Little Heath Primary School1.2 km 225 pupils, 236 places
- Oakmere Primary School1.4 km 226 pupils, 240 places
- The Wroxham School1.9 km 218 pupils, 242 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Potters Bar?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Potters Bar is Potters Bar Rail Station, 450 m away in a straight line.
- Potters Bar Rail Station Railway station 450 mWalk
- Brookmans Park Rail Station Railway station 3.0 kmCycle
- Hadley Wood Rail Station Railway station 3.2 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Potters Bar?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Potters Bar. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Parkfield Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01707 291041 500 mWalk
- Annandale Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01707 644451 800 mWalk
- Highview Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01707 871980 800 mWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Potters Bar safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 2,121 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Potters Bar 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
- 151 September 2025
- 165 October 2025
- 149 November 2025
- 193 December 2025
- 171 January 2026
- 167 February 2026
- 172 March 2026
- 212 April 2026
- 178 May 2026
- 174 June 2026
- 207 July 2026
- 182 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 86, other crime 24, possession of weapons 20, robbery 18, theft from the person 13, bicycle theft 5.
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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Potters Bar?
- Councils
- Hertsmere (572) and Welwyn Hatfield (56)
- County council
- Hertfordshire
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Hertsmere (579) and Welwyn Hatfield (49)
- Police force area
- Hertfordshire
- 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: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Moving to Potters Bar
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Potters Bar is in Hertsmere; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Hertsmere about council tax Council tax, on hertsmere.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Potters Bar
- 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
Potters Bar postcodes
628 postcodes in use in Potters Bar, by district:
That district is in the EN postcode area.
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Places near Potters Bar
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Potters Bar's £590,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Potters Bar
- What is the postcode for Potters Bar?
- Postcode district EN6, with 628 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Potters Bar?
- A typical £590,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 229 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Potters Bar?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School, Cranborne Primary School and Stormont School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Gracewood Academy and Dame Alice Owen's School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Potters Bar have a railway station?
- Yes: Potters Bar station, 450 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Potters Bar?
- Ofcom reports on 603 of the 628 postcodes in Potters Bar. At 519 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Potters Bar at risk of flooding?
- 24 of the 628 postcodes in Potters Bar 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 86 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Potters Bar?
- 16 of the 628 postcodes now in use in Potters Bar came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 295 homes sold in Potters Bar were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the EN6 district, 6%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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