Rickmansworth

What is it like to live in Rickmansworth?

Homes sold for a typical £601,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 546 of the 615 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 585 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 91 of its 681 postcodes. It has 9 primary schools, 4 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Rickmansworth, 600 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 Rickmansworth?

Homes in Rickmansworth sold for a typical £601,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 275 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £589,950 from 385 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £895,000 41 sales
• Semi-detached £665,000 113 sales
• Terraced £507,500 60 sales
• Flat or maisonette £330,000 61 sales

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

Across the whole WD3 district, Rickmansworth's main postcode district: a typical £630,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Rickmansworth: 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 Rickmansworth?

18 of the 681 postcodes now in use in Rickmansworth came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 5 of the 385 homes sold in Rickmansworth were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WD3 district, 4%.

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.

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 Rickmansworth?

Ofcom reports on 615 of the 681 postcodes in Rickmansworth. At 546 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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Rickmansworth at risk of flooding?

91 of the 681 postcodes in Rickmansworth 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 585 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 Rickmansworth?

The open schools at the postcodes in Rickmansworth (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.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Rickmansworth?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Rickmansworth is Rickmansworth Rail Station, 600 m away in a straight line.

• Rickmansworth Rail Station Railway station 600 mWalk
• Chorleywood Rail Station Railway station 3.9 kmCycle
• Watford High Street Rail Station Railway station 5.2 kmDrive
• Rickmansworth Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 650 mWalk
• Croxley Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 1.7 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 Rickmansworth?

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

• Gade and Chorleywood Health Centres Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01923 772591 1.3 kmCycle
• The Colne Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2020, over 3 years old · Phone 01923 776295 1.3 kmCycle
• New Road Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01923 604884 1.4 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Rickmansworth safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 975 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Rickmansworth 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: drugs 25, other crime 19, theft from the person 12, robbery 6, possession of weapons 5, bicycle theft 4.

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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Rickmansworth?

Councils

Three Rivers (680) and Hillingdon (1)

Parliamentary constituencies

South West Hertfordshire (680) and Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (1)

Police force areas

Hertfordshire (680) and Metropolitan Police (1)

Regions

East of England (680) and London (1)

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.