Welwyn Garden City
Welwyn Garden City is covered by postcode districts AL6, AL7 and AL8. It is in the Welwyn Hatfield council area, Hertfordshire.
Every postcode in Welwyn Garden City, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 3
- At medium risk at worst: 0
- At low risk at worst: 3
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 1,341
Of the 1,347 postcodes in Welwyn Garden City that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at low risk at worst and 1,341 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. 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 51.8003, longitude -0.1942. 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
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Welwyn Garden City?
Homes sold for a typical £420,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 1,120 of the 1,287 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 7 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 6 of its 1,347 postcodes. It has 17 primary schools and 3 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Welwyn Garden City, 700 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 Welwyn Garden City?
Homes in Welwyn Garden City sold for a typical £420,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 506 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £410,000 from 605 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £777,000 53 sales
- Semi-detached £502,500 102 sales
- Terraced £425,000 218 sales
- Flat or maisonette £245,000 133 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole AL7 district, Welwyn Garden City's main postcode district: a typical £400,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Welwyn Garden City: 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 Welwyn Garden City?
47 of the 1,347 postcodes now in use in Welwyn Garden City came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 3 of the 605 homes sold in Welwyn Garden City were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the AL7 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
| Period | In Welwyn Garden City | Across the AL7 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 506 (0%) | 0 of 349 (0%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 3 of 605 (Under 1%) | 0 of 420 (0%) |
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 Welwyn Garden City?
Ofcom reports on 1,287 of the 1,347 postcodes in Welwyn Garden City. At 1,120 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 Welwyn Garden City at risk of flooding?
6 of the 1,347 postcodes in Welwyn Garden City 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 7 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 Welwyn Garden City?
The open schools at the postcodes in Welwyn Garden City (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
- Peartree Primary School650 m 184 pupils, 270 places
- Holwell Primary School700 m 397 pupils, 420 places
- Swallow Dell Primary and Nursery School800 m 418 pupils, 450 places
- Panshanger Primary School900 m 240 pupils, 240 places
- Our Lady Catholic Primary School1.1 km 204 pupils, 243 places
- The Holy Family Catholic Primary School1.4 km 211 pupils, 236 places
- Watchlytes Primary School1.5 km 158 pupils, 240 places
- Creswick Academy1.5 km 325 pupils, 459 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 Welwyn Garden City?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Welwyn Garden City is Welwyn Garden City Rail Station, 700 m away in a straight line.
- Welwyn Garden City Rail Station Railway station 700 mWalk
- Welwyn North Rail Station Railway station 2.6 kmCycle
- Hatfield (Herts) Rail Station Railway station 4.3 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 Welwyn Garden City?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Welwyn Garden City. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Peartree Lane Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01707 329292 450 mWalk
- The Garden City Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Requires improvement CQC report November 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01707 321500 1.1 kmWalk
- Hall Grove Group Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01707 328528 1.5 kmCycle
- Spring House Health Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2015, over 3 years old · Phone 01707 294354 2.0 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Welwyn Garden City safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 3,853 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Welwyn Garden City 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
- 298 September 2025
- 318 October 2025
- 308 November 2025
- 295 December 2025
- 257 January 2026
- 251 February 2026
- 330 March 2026
- 340 April 2026
- 371 May 2026
- 345 June 2026
- 392 July 2026
- 348 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 84, other crime 64, bicycle theft 48, robbery 31, possession of weapons 26, theft from the person 19.
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 Welwyn Garden City?
- District, borough or city council
- Welwyn Hatfield
- County council
- Hertfordshire
- Parliamentary constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Police force area
- Hertfordshire
- Region
- East of England
- Country
- England
- MP
- Andrew Lewin (Labour)
All 1,347 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.
Moving to Welwyn Garden City
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Welwyn Hatfield about council tax Council tax, on welhat.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Welwyn Garden City
- 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 Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Welwyn Garden City postcodes
1,347 postcodes in use in Welwyn Garden City, by district:
Those districts are all in the AL postcode area.
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Places near Welwyn Garden City
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Welwyn Garden City's £420,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Welwyn Garden City
- What is the postcode for Welwyn Garden City?
- Postcode districts AL6, AL7 and AL8, with 1,347 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Welwyn Garden City in?
- Welwyn Hatfield, with Hertfordshire as its county council. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Welwyn Garden City?
- Andrew Lewin (Labour), for Welwyn Hatfield. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Welwyn Garden City?
- A typical £420,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 506 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Welwyn Garden City?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Peartree Primary School, Holwell Primary School and Swallow Dell Primary and Nursery School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Ridgeway Academy, Stanborough School and Monk's Walk School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Welwyn Garden City have a railway station?
- Yes: Welwyn Garden City station, 700 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Welwyn Garden City?
- Ofcom reports on 1,287 of the 1,347 postcodes in Welwyn Garden City. At 1,120 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Welwyn Garden City at risk of flooding?
- 6 of the 1,347 postcodes in Welwyn Garden City 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 7 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 Welwyn Garden City?
- 47 of the 1,347 postcodes now in use in Welwyn Garden City came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 3 of the 605 homes sold in Welwyn Garden City were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the AL7 district, 0%. 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
- UK Parliament
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