Welwyn Garden City

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

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.

Source: 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.

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 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

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 each way 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 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.