Stanstead Abbotts

Stanstead Abbotts is covered by postcode district SG12. It is in the East Hertfordshire council area, Hertfordshire.

Typical price £416,500 Homes sold in Stanstead Abbotts, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 78 of 98 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 55 of 100 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 475 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Stanstead Abbotts, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Stanstead Abbotts, by flood risk Of the 100 postcodes in Stanstead Abbotts that ONS places, 31 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at medium risk at worst, 19 are at low risk at worst and 45 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. 3 groups of postcodes at high or medium risk are outlined: 22 postcodes at high or medium risk; 8 postcodes at high or medium risk; 6 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Stanstead Abbotts. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A414 SG12 8AX: not on the flood risk listSG12 8AY: not on the flood risk listSG12 8AZ: not on the flood risk listSG12 8BA: not on the flood risk listSG12 8BB: not on the flood risk listSG12 8BD: not on the flood risk listSG12 8BE: not on the flood risk listSG12 8BG: not on the flood risk listSG12 8BH: not on the flood risk listSG12 8BJ: not on the flood risk listSG12 8BL: not on the flood risk listSG12 8BQ: not on the flood risk listSG12 8BS: not on the flood risk listSG12 8BW: not on the flood risk listSG12 8DH: not on the flood risk listSG12 8DJ: not on the flood risk listSG12 8DL: not on the flood risk listSG12 8DS: not on the flood risk listSG12 8ED: not on the flood risk listSG12 8EG: not on the flood risk listSG12 8EH: not on the flood risk listSG12 8ES: not on the flood risk listSG12 8EY: not on the flood risk listSG12 8FN: not on the flood risk listSG12 8HB: not on the flood risk listSG12 8HN: not on the flood risk listSG12 8HR: not on the flood risk listSG12 8HS: not on the flood risk listSG12 8HT: not on the flood risk listSG12 8HU: not on the flood risk listSG12 8HX: not on the flood risk listSG12 8HY: not on the flood risk listSG12 8HZ: not on the flood risk listSG12 8JA: not on the flood risk listSG12 8JB: not on the flood risk listSG12 8JD: not on the flood risk listSG12 8JE: not on the flood risk listSG12 8JF: not on the flood risk listSG12 8JG: not on the flood risk listSG12 8JH: not on the flood risk listSG12 8JP: not on the flood risk listSG12 8JQ: not on the flood risk listSG12 8JT: not on the flood risk listSG12 8UU: not on the flood risk listSG12 8XL: not on the flood risk listSG12 8AA: low flood risk at worstSG12 8AB: low flood risk at worstSG12 8AD: low flood risk at worstSG12 8AE: low flood risk at worstSG12 8AG: low flood risk at worstSG12 8AH: low flood risk at worstSG12 8AQ: low flood risk at worstSG12 8AW: low flood risk at worstSG12 8BU: low flood risk at worstSG12 8EE: low flood risk at worstSG12 8EX: low flood risk at worstSG12 8HG: low flood risk at worstSG12 8JL: low flood risk at worstSG12 8JN: low flood risk at worstSG12 8JW: low flood risk at worstSG12 8TU: low flood risk at worstSG12 8TY: low flood risk at worstSG12 8TZ: low flood risk at worstSG12 8UZ: low flood risk at worstSG12 8AJ: medium flood risk at worstSG12 8AL: medium flood risk at worstSG12 8AP: medium flood risk at worstSG12 8AS: medium flood risk at worstSG12 8AT: medium flood risk at worstSG12 8AF: high flood riskSG12 8BZ: high flood riskSG12 8DE: high flood riskSG12 8DG: high flood riskSG12 8DR: high flood riskSG12 8DT: high flood riskSG12 8DU: high flood riskSG12 8DW: high flood riskSG12 8DX: high flood riskSG12 8DY: high flood riskSG12 8DZ: high flood riskSG12 8EA: high flood riskSG12 8EB: high flood riskSG12 8EF: high flood riskSG12 8EL: high flood riskSG12 8EQ: high flood riskSG12 8ET: high flood riskSG12 8EZ: high flood riskSG12 8FB: high flood riskSG12 8GA: high flood riskSG12 8HA: high flood riskSG12 8HD: high flood riskSG12 8HH: high flood riskSG12 8HP: high flood riskSG12 8HQ: high flood riskSG12 8LL: high flood riskSG12 8LQ: high flood riskSG12 8QT: high flood riskSG12 8TX: high flood riskSG12 8XH: high flood risk Stanstead Abbotts 22 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to SG12 8GA, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk22 postcodes at high or medium risk8 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to SG12 8HQ, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk8 postcodes at high or medium risk6 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to SG12 8AF, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk6 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in Stanstead Abbotts, by flood risk Of the 100 postcodes in Stanstead Abbotts that ONS places, 31 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at medium risk at worst, 19 are at low risk at worst and 45 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. 3 groups of postcodes at high or medium risk are outlined: 22 postcodes at high or medium risk; 8 postcodes at high or medium risk; 6 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Stanstead Abbotts. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A414 Stanstead Abbotts
  • A home or business at high risk: 31
  • At medium risk at worst: 5
  • At low risk at worst: 19
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 45
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 100 postcodes in Stanstead Abbotts that ONS places, 31 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at medium risk at worst, 19 are at low risk at worst and 45 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 51.7875, longitude 0.0045. 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

31 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.

SG12 8GA72 at high riskSG12 8EL71 at high riskSG12 8XH64 at high riskSG12 8EU47 at high riskSG12 8HQ23 at high riskSG12 8DX22 at high riskSG12 8DZ18 at high riskSG12 8FB15 at high riskSG12 8DT11 at high riskSG12 8EQ11 at high riskSG12 8DY10 at high riskSG12 8EB10 at high risk

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

  • 22 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SG12 8GA, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
  • 8 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SG12 8HQ, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
  • 6 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SG12 8AF, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.

What is it like to live in Stanstead Abbotts?

Homes sold for a typical £416,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 78 of the 98 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 475 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 55 of its 100 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Hailey View Surgery, 1.8 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is St Margarets (Herts), 250 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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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 Stanstead Abbotts?

Homes in Stanstead Abbotts sold for a typical £416,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 37 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £400,000 from 64 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£416,500 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£400,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £687,500 6 sales
  • Semi-detached £545,150 7 sales
  • Terraced £413,250 12 sales
  • Flat or maisonette £265,000 12 sales

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

Across the whole SG12 district, Stanstead Abbotts's main postcode district: a typical £450,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Stanstead Abbotts: 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 Stanstead Abbotts?

1 of the 100 postcodes now in use in Stanstead Abbotts came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 64 homes sold in Stanstead Abbotts were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SG12 district, Under 1%.

The newest postcodes

SG12 8FNsince July 2020

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

PeriodIn Stanstead AbbottsAcross the SG12 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 37 (0%) 1 of 388 (Under 1%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 64 (0%) 2 of 510 (Under 1%)

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 Stanstead Abbotts?

Ofcom reports on 98 of the 100 postcodes in Stanstead Abbotts. At 78 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit78 of 98
Postcodes where every home can get superfast91 of 98

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.

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Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Stanstead Abbotts at risk of flooding?

55 of the 100 postcodes in Stanstead Abbotts 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 475 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 55 of 100 postcodes High: 443Medium: 32Low: 564

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 Stanstead Abbotts?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Stanstead Abbotts. 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.

Primary

Secondary

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

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

How far is the station from Stanstead Abbotts?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Stanstead Abbotts is St Margarets (Herts) Rail Station, 250 m away in a straight line.

  • St Margarets (Herts) Rail Station Railway station 250 mWalk
  • Rye House Rail Station Railway station 2.0 kmCycle
  • Roydon Rail Station Railway station 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Stanstead Abbotts?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Stanstead Abbotts. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

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

Is Stanstead Abbotts safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 419 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Stanstead Abbotts 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

  1. 27 September 2025
  2. 29 October 2025
  3. 32 November 2025
  4. 35 December 2025
  5. 29 January 2026
  6. 28 February 2026
  7. 36 March 2026
  8. 48 April 2026
  9. 31 May 2026
  10. 42 June 2026
  11. 42 July 2026
  12. 40 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences150 reports
Anti-social behaviour91 reports
Vehicle crime33 reports
Other theft29 reports
Criminal damage and arson28 reports
Public order26 reports
Drugs20 reports
Burglary13 reports

Also: other crime 13, shoplifting 7, possession of weapons 4, bicycle theft 3, robbery 2.

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 postcode

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Stanstead Abbotts?

District, borough or city council
East Hertfordshire
County council
Hertfordshire
Parliamentary constituency
Broxbourne
Police force area
Hertfordshire
Region
East of England
Country
England
MP
Lewis Cocking (Conservative)

All 100 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.

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Stanstead Abbotts postcodes

100 postcodes in use in Stanstead Abbotts, by district:

SG12 postcode district,100 postcodes

That district is in the SG postcode area.

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Places near Stanstead Abbotts

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Stanstead Abbotts's £416,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Hertford Heath3.2 km, £477,250Ware3.6 km, £420,000Hoddesdon3.8 km, £420,000Lower Nazeing5.5 km, £562,500Hertford5.9 km, £425,000Harlow7.4 km, £340,000Cheshunt9.4 km, £440,000Sawbridgeworth10.3 km, £426,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Stanstead Abbotts

What is the postcode for Stanstead Abbotts?
Postcode district SG12, with 100 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Stanstead Abbotts in?
East Hertfordshire, with Hertfordshire as its county council. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Stanstead Abbotts?
Lewis Cocking (Conservative), for Broxbourne. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Stanstead Abbotts?
A typical £416,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 37 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Stanstead Abbotts?
Primary schools at its postcodes include St Andrew's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is The John Warner School, 1.5 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Stanstead Abbotts have a railway station?
Yes: St Margarets (Herts) station, 250 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Stanstead Abbotts?
Ofcom reports on 98 of the 100 postcodes in Stanstead Abbotts. At 78 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Stanstead Abbotts at risk of flooding?
55 of the 100 postcodes in Stanstead Abbotts 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 475 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 Stanstead Abbotts?
1 of the 100 postcodes now in use in Stanstead Abbotts came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 64 homes sold in Stanstead Abbotts were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SG12 district, Under 1%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

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. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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