Property market | £741,427 for a semi-detached property | |
Airport access | Closest airport is London Luton (10.1 miles) | |
Broadband | 114.5mbps average broadband speeds (very fast broadband for UK) | |
Ethnic diversity | White: 83.6% residents (vs 81.7% England & Wales) Other: 16.4% residents (vs 18.3% England & Wales) | |
Socio-economic status | Ranked 7 out of 573 in England & Wales for % of residents in higher managerial positions and 565 out of 573 for residents who are long-term unemployed (Hitchin and Harpenden level) | |
Community | Median age is 41.1 | Happiness is Below Average for Hertfordshire, Average for UK | |
Crime | 3.0 burglaries per 1k people (St Albans) | |
Commute (approx) | - London St Pancras (21 mins) - Euston (25 mins) - Marylebone (32 mins) - London Bridge (35 mins) - East Croydon (49 mins) - Cannon Street (54 mins) - Charing Cross (59 mins) - Kings Cross (61 mins) - Highbury & Islington (71 mins) - Wimbledon (71 mins) - Victoria (80 mins) - Birmingham New Street (85 mins) - Cambridge (87 mins)... (view more here) | |
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£741,427 for a semi-detached property | |
Closest airport is London Luton (10.1 miles) | |
114.5mbps average broadband speeds (very fast broadband for UK) | |
Median age is 41.1 | Happiness is Below Average for Hertfordshire, Average for UK | |
Ranked 7 out of 573 in England & Wales for % of residents in higher managerial positions and 565 out of 573 for residents who are long-term unemployed (Hitchin and Harpenden level) | |
3.0 burglaries per 1k people (St Albans) | |
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The property market in Potterscrouch has had a steep increase over the last few years and accelerating growth. Based on data published on 15 November 2023, on average a detached house costs £1,221,641, which is up 1.9% on last year. A semi-detached house on average costs £741,427 (up 1.4% on last year) , a terraced house £542,301 (up 0.9% on last year) and a flat £326,099. Renting a two bedroom flat will cost you approximately £1,262 per month. Property prices in Potterscrouch are a little higher than the average property prices across Hertfordshire and are much higher compared to other locations with a similar density in England. When looking at the annual change in property prices in Potterscrouch, prices have risen much more quickly than the annual average price change seen across the Hertfordshire region.
Property data is based on St Albans level pricing data and is as at September 2023 (publicised 15 November 2023)
Detached and Semi-detached House Trend (£) to September 2023
County | Avg Detached Price | Annual Change | Avg Semi-Detached Price | Annual Change |
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Rutland | £557,774 | +11.3% | £341,529 | +11.7% |
Northumberland | £333,743 | +7.3% | £183,403 | +6.1% |
Lancashire | £326,887 | +4.3% | £195,848 | +3.4% |
Leicestershire | £432,076 | +3.9% | £262,308 | +3.0% |
Derbyshire | £340,545 | +3.7% | £209,276 | +2.9% |
Oxfordshire | £706,629 | +3.5% | £450,305 | +3.5% |
Merseyside | £340,051 | +3.4% | £214,398 | +2.4% |
Gloucestershire | £536,963 | +3.4% | £330,457 | +3.4% |
Nottinghamshire | £334,429 | +2.8% | £206,257 | +2.8% |
Wiltshire | £521,688 | +2.7% | £328,877 | +3.0% |
Greater Manchester | £396,806 | +2.7% | £254,125 | +2.3% |
West Yorkshire | £351,673 | +2.5% | £210,889 | +2.0% |
West Midlands | £407,684 | +2.2% | £245,250 | +2.4% |
East Riding of Yorkshire | £326,098 | +2.2% | £203,163 | +2.1% |
Staffordshire | £364,884 | +2.1% | £221,783 | +2.1% |
Herefordshire | £434,518 | +2.1% | £276,148 | +2.2% |
South Yorkshire | £284,409 | +2.0% | £182,869 | +1.9% |
West Sussex | £686,980 | +1.9% | £441,716 | +2.3% |
Kent | £619,795 | +1.8% | £386,201 | +1.4% |
Shropshire | £404,408 | +1.8% | £252,891 | +1.8% |
Warwickshire | £515,326 | +1.8% | £299,238 | +1.3% |
Devon | £503,963 | +1.6% | £337,624 | +2.3% |
North Yorkshire | £422,027 | +1.5% | £265,231 | +1.2% |
Norfolk | £406,137 | +1.4% | £267,820 | +1.2% |
North Northamptonshire | £426,370 | +1.3% | £254,947 | +1.2% |
Buckinghamshire | £853,940 | +1.2% | £460,891 | +1.2% |
West Northamptonshire | £478,844 | +0.9% | £279,006 | +0.7% |
Hampshire | £628,455 | +0.6% | £386,140 | +1.0% |
Lincolnshire | £307,354 | +0.6% | £205,466 | +1.4% |
Worcestershire | £455,558 | +0.6% | £276,201 | +0.9% |
Essex | £586,972 | +0.4% | £379,804 | 0.0% |
Somerset | £465,131 | +0.3% | £296,160 | +0.7% |
Suffolk | £454,636 | +0.2% | £283,920 | +0.6% |
East Sussex | £595,763 | +0.1% | £385,074 | +0.4% |
Cambridgeshire | £486,349 | 0.0% | £330,028 | +0.2% |
Surrey | £957,680 | -0.2% | £546,201 | +0.7% |
Isle of Wight | £435,441 | -0.4% | £298,787 | 0.0% |
Hertfordshire | £939,983 | -0.7% | £542,021 | -0.2% |
Cornwall | £453,159 | -1.1% | £300,170 | -0.6% |
Dorset | £528,863 | -1.3% | £348,080 | -0.8% |
Recent property transactions in the area
Listed below are some recent property purchases in the area, to give you an idea of the market. Click on a postcode if you would like to see data on that specific area of Potterscrouch, or click here to browse the longer list of Potterscrouch property transactions from 2023.
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Potterscrouch has one school nearby: Prae Wood Primary School (Maintained school) which is a primary school based in King Harry Lane, St Albans. Example schools in the area are listed below, with some information on their rating and access criteria.
School | Type | Latest Rating | Parent View Reviews (if available) | Ofsted Report (if available) | Address |
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Prae Wood Primary School Save school | Primary Community school - Mixed | 2: Good (7/4/2019) | Ofsted Report Link | St Albans |
School | Type |
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Prae Wood Primary School Ofsted report Save school | Primary Latest rating - 2: Good (7/4/2019) |
Station | Distance from Potterscrouch | Commute options |
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St Albans Abbey A very quiet station station. Station footfall changed -3% from the previous year. | 2 miles |
- Euston (1 change(s) - 68 mins - Avanti West Coast - £370 monthly fare) View details - Birmingham New Street (1 change(s) - 123 mins - Avanti West Coast) View details - East Croydon (1 change(s) - 132 mins - Southern - £370 monthly fare) View details |
Bricket Wood A very quiet station station. Station footfall changed -15% from the previous year. | 3 miles |
- Euston (1 change(s) - 53 mins - Avanti West Coast - £312 monthly fare) View details - Birmingham New Street (1 change(s) - 108 mins - Avanti West Coast) View details - East Croydon (1 change(s) - 117 mins - Southern - £312 monthly fare) View details |
How Wood (Hertfordshire) A very quiet station station. Station footfall changed -12% from the previous year. | 3 miles |
- Euston (1 change(s) - 58 mins - Avanti West Coast - £312 monthly fare) View details - Birmingham New Street (1 change(s) - 113 mins - Avanti West Coast) View details - East Croydon (1 change(s) - 122 mins - Southern - £312 monthly fare) View details |
Park Street A very quiet station station. Station footfall changed -4% from the previous year. | 3 miles |
- Euston (1 change(s) - 63 mins - Avanti West Coast - £312 monthly fare) View details - Birmingham New Street (1 change(s) - 118 mins - Avanti West Coast) View details - East Croydon (1 change(s) - 127 mins - Southern - £312 monthly fare) View details |
Garston (Hertfordshire) A very quiet station station. Station footfall changed -6% from the previous year. | 4 miles |
- Euston (1 change(s) - 43 mins - Avanti West Coast - £312 monthly fare) View details - Birmingham New Street (1 change(s) - 98 mins - Avanti West Coast) View details - East Croydon (1 change(s) - 107 mins - Southern - £312 monthly fare) View details - Manchester Piccadilly (1 change(s) - 178 mins - Avanti West Coast) View details |
Radlett A relatively quiet station. Station footfall changed +3% from the previous year. | 6 miles |
- London St Pancras (30 mins - Thameslink - £273 monthly fare) View details - London Bridge (1 change(s) - 44 mins - Thameslink - £273 monthly fare) View details - Cannon Street (1 change(s) - 60 mins - Southeastern - £273 monthly fare) View details - Charing Cross (1 change(s) - 65 mins - Southeastern - £273 monthly fare) View details - Wimbledon (1 change(s) - 75 mins - Thameslink - £273 monthly fare) View details - East Croydon (1 change(s) - 68 mins - Thameslink - £273 monthly fare) View details - Victoria (1 change(s) - 88 mins - Southern - £273 monthly fare) View details - Highbury & Islington (1 change(s) - 99 mins - London Overground - £273 monthly fare) View details - Cambridge (1 change(s) - 109 mins - Thameslink) View details - Brighton (1 change(s) - 131 mins - Thameslink) View details - Reading (1 change(s) - 175 mins - Great Western Railway) View details |
The table below lists ethnicities living in the local authority (St Albans) as per the data published in December 2022. Source: ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk
Ethnicity | % of St Albans residents | Benchmark:% of England & Wales residents |
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White | 83.6% | 81.7% |
Asian | 8.2% | 9.3% |
Mixed | 4.3% | 2.9% |
Black | 2.1% | 4.0% |
Other | 1.8% | 2.1% |
The table below lists the types of occupations that residents have, at the Hitchin and Harpenden consituency level. Source: commonslibrary.parliament.uk
Type of occupation | % of residents (over 16 years old) | Rank within England & Wales |
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Intermediate occupations | 11.2% | |
Small employers and own account workers | 10.7% | |
Higher managerial, administrative and professional occupations | 24.9% | 7 out of 573 |
Lower managerial, administrative and professional occupations | 25.7% | |
Lower supervisory and technical occupations | 3.5% | |
Semi-routine occupations | 7.5% | |
Routine occupations | 6.4% | |
Never worked / long-term unemployed | 4.4% | 565 out of 573 |
Full-time students | 5.6% |
Relative to the UK average, the average broadband download speed in Hertfordshire is very fast (96mbps). Potterscrouch is faster than this, with average download speeds of 114.5mbps. You can also view really detailed broadband information at the Hitchin and Harpenden level, via data.parliament.uk, here.
Average speed | 114.5 mbps |
% households with superfast broadband access | 95.1% |
% households unable to access decent broadband | 0.4% |
Crime stats were found at the St Albans level:
Type | St Albans | UK |
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Total Crimes (per thousand people) | 55 | 93 |
Burglaries (per thousand people) | 3 | 5 |
Public Order Offences (per thousand people) | 4 | 10 |
Bicycle Thefts (per thousand people) | 1 | 1 |
Violence Against People (per thousand people) | 19 | 36 |
We use an API provided by Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to identify any live flood warnings to be aware of and we also provide insight into whether flooding could occur from rivers, sea and groundwater within 1km of Potterscrouch.
There are no live flood warnings in the area, according to our interpretation of the DEFRA API.
The areas in the table below have been identified by the DEFRA API as areas where it is possible for flooding to occur from rivers, sea and in some locations, groundwater. Some of these areas will have measures in place to minimise the risk of flooding and they may be monitored by the Flood Warning Service.
Area | Cause | Description |
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Herts and North London | River Ver | The River Ver at Markyate, Redbourn and St. Albans |
Herts and North London | River Ver | The River Ver at St Albans including Sopwell, Park Street and Frogmore |
Name | Property market | Crimes per 1,000 | Schools nearby | Socio Economic |
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Potterscrouch, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Affluent Very fast broadband Hot property market | Semi-detached: £741,427 Detached: £1,221,641 | 55 | Primary: 1Secondary: | 24.9% residents in higher managerial positions 4.4% residents long-term unemployed |
St Albans, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Outstanding schools Affluent Very fast broadband Hot property market Local Waitrose Local M&S | Semi-detached: £741,427 Detached: £1,221,641 | 55 | Primary: 22Secondary: 12 | 24.4% residents in higher managerial positions 5.5% residents long-term unemployed |
Harpenden, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Outstanding schools Affluent Very fast broadband Hot property market Local Waitrose Local M&S | Semi-detached: £741,427 Detached: £1,221,641 | 55 | Primary: 15Secondary: 6 | 24.9% residents in higher managerial positions 4.4% residents long-term unemployed |
Radlett, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Affluent Happiness High for UK Very fast broadband Slowing property market | Semi-detached: £640,226 Detached: £1,193,175 | 70 | Primary: 7Secondary: 2 | 17.3% residents in higher managerial positions 6.7% residents long-term unemployed |
Tring, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Outstanding schools Very fast broadband Slowing property market Local M&S | Semi-detached: £548,108 Detached: £1,008,085 | 61 | Primary: 6Secondary: 2 | 21.7% residents in higher managerial positions 5.1% residents long-term unemployed |
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Very fast broadband Slowing property market Local Waitrose Local M&S | Semi-detached: £548,108 Detached: £1,008,085 | 61 | Primary: 10Secondary: 3 | 21.7% residents in higher managerial positions 5.1% residents long-term unemployed |
Essendon, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Very fast broadband Slowing property market | Semi-detached: £525,194 Detached: £952,778 | 69 | Primary: 2Secondary: | 14.8% residents in higher managerial positions 6.0% residents long-term unemployed |
Cuffley, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Very fast broadband Slowing property market | Semi-detached: £525,194 Detached: £952,778 | 69 | Primary: 4Secondary: | 12.3% residents in higher managerial positions 7.6% residents long-term unemployed |
Welwyn, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Outstanding schools Very fast broadband Slowing property market Local John Lewis | Semi-detached: £525,194 Detached: £952,778 | 69 | Primary: 8Secondary: 3 | 14.8% residents in higher managerial positions 6.0% residents long-term unemployed |
Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Very fast broadband Slowing property market | Semi-detached: £525,194 Detached: £952,778 | 69 | Primary: 5Secondary: 3 | 14.8% residents in higher managerial positions 6.0% residents long-term unemployed |
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Affluent Very fast broadband Hot property market Local Waitrose | Semi-detached: £517,700 Detached: £872,882 | 48 | Primary: 11Secondary: 6 | 19.0% residents in higher managerial positions 4.8% residents long-term unemployed |
Bayford, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Affluent Hot property market | Semi-detached: £517,700 Detached: £872,882 | 48 | Primary: 1Secondary: | 18.2% residents in higher managerial positions 5.4% residents long-term unemployed |
Royston, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Happiness High for UK Slowing property market Local M&S | Semi-detached: £476,343 Detached: £776,414 | 48 | Primary: 6Secondary: 1 | 18.2% residents in higher managerial positions 5.4% residents long-term unemployed |
Hitchin, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Outstanding schools Happiness High for UK Very fast broadband Slowing property market Local Waitrose Local M&S | Semi-detached: £476,343 Detached: £776,414 | 48 | Primary: 16Secondary: 5 | 24.9% residents in higher managerial positions 4.4% residents long-term unemployed |
Stevenage, Hertfordshire Affordability: Average Low Burglary Rate Very fast broadband Slowing property market Local Waitrose Local M&S | Semi-detached: £413,567 Detached: £661,730 | 91 | Primary: 25Secondary: 9 | 12.9% residents in higher managerial positions 6.7% residents long-term unemployed |
Name | Property | Crimes per 1,000 | Schools nearby |
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Potterscrouch, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Affluent Very fast broadband Hot property market | Semi-detached: £741,427 Detached: £1,221,641 | 55 | Primary: 1Secondary: |
St Albans, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Outstanding schools Affluent Very fast broadband Hot property market Local Waitrose Local M&S | Semi-detached: £741,427 Detached: £1,221,641 | 55 | Primary: 22Secondary: 12 |
Harpenden, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Outstanding schools Affluent Very fast broadband Hot property market Local Waitrose Local M&S | Semi-detached: £741,427 Detached: £1,221,641 | 55 | Primary: 15Secondary: 6 |
Radlett, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Affluent Happiness High for UK Very fast broadband Slowing property market | Semi-detached: £640,226 Detached: £1,193,175 | 70 | Primary: 7Secondary: 2 |
Tring, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Outstanding schools Very fast broadband Slowing property market Local M&S | Semi-detached: £548,108 Detached: £1,008,085 | 61 | Primary: 6Secondary: 2 |
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Very fast broadband Slowing property market Local Waitrose Local M&S | Semi-detached: £548,108 Detached: £1,008,085 | 61 | Primary: 10Secondary: 3 |
Essendon, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Very fast broadband Slowing property market | Semi-detached: £525,194 Detached: £952,778 | 69 | Primary: 2Secondary: |
Cuffley, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Very fast broadband Slowing property market | Semi-detached: £525,194 Detached: £952,778 | 69 | Primary: 4Secondary: |
Welwyn, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Outstanding schools Very fast broadband Slowing property market Local John Lewis | Semi-detached: £525,194 Detached: £952,778 | 69 | Primary: 8Secondary: 3 |
Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Very fast broadband Slowing property market | Semi-detached: £525,194 Detached: £952,778 | 69 | Primary: 5Secondary: 3 |
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Affluent Very fast broadband Hot property market Local Waitrose | Semi-detached: £517,700 Detached: £872,882 | 48 | Primary: 11Secondary: 6 |
Bayford, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Affluent Hot property market | Semi-detached: £517,700 Detached: £872,882 | 48 | Primary: 1Secondary: |
Royston, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Happiness High for UK Slowing property market Local M&S | Semi-detached: £476,343 Detached: £776,414 | 48 | Primary: 6Secondary: 1 |
Hitchin, Hertfordshire Affordability: Expensive Outstanding schools Happiness High for UK Very fast broadband Slowing property market Local Waitrose Local M&S | Semi-detached: £476,343 Detached: £776,414 | 48 | Primary: 16Secondary: 5 |
Stevenage, Hertfordshire Affordability: Average Low Burglary Rate Very fast broadband Slowing property market Local Waitrose Local M&S | Semi-detached: £413,567 Detached: £661,730 | 91 | Primary: 25Secondary: 9 |
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