The Paddocks, Hitchin house prices are built from 141 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 24 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £169,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +30.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -5.7%.
Median price paid
£169,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+30.2%
Change in real terms
-5.7%
HM Land Registry141 salesLatest sale 24 Mar 2026
Section 01
How The Paddocks, Hitchin prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Paddocks, Hitchin house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £60,000 | £133,228 |
| 2000s | 5 | £110,000 | £200,388 |
| 2010s | 3 | £228,500 | £322,185 |
| 2020s | 2 | £275,000 | £280,978 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Paddocks, Hitchin is £297,500 in 2025; the lowest is £55,950 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £55,950 to £297,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £121,368, so the real change over the whole record is +150.5% — about +3.22% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +30.2% in cash against -5.7% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £280,000 | £280,000 |
| 17 | 6 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £280,000 | £280,000 |
| 10 | 17 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £296,304 |
| 20 | 14 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £290,000 | £296,304 |
| 11 | 16 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £310,000 | £316,739 |
| 40 | 26 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £297,500 | £303,967 |
| 26 | 21 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £318,000 | £324,913 |
| 30 | 20 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £275,000 | £280,978 |
| 5 | 11 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 21 | 11 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £302,500 | £309,076 |
| 18 | 17 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £245,000 | £250,326 |
| 32 | 1 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £331,000 | £348,291 |
| 31 | 26 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £325,000 | £341,978 |
| 23 | 2 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £310,000 | £326,194 |
| 34 | 6 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £315,000 | £340,345 |
| 17 | 19 May 2023 | Terraced | £250,000 | £270,115 |
| 29 | 13 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £330,000 | £356,552 |
| 3 | 7 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £320,000 | £370,748 |
| 19 | 16 May 2022 | Terraced | £309,000 | £358,003 |
| 11 | 23 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £285,000 | £330,197 |
| 32 | 21 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £310,000 | £359,162 |
| 26 | 29 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £275,000 | £347,446 |
| 21 | 21 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £280,000 | £353,763 |
| 20 | 28 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £270,000 | £341,129 |
| 1 | 9 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £242,500 | £306,384 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to The Paddocks, Hitchin values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 the Paddocks | £78,500 (2000) | £280,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| 17 the Paddocks | £89,000 (2001) | £280,000 (2026) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| 10 the Paddocks | £60,000 (1997) | £290,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 20 the Paddocks | £53,000 (1996) | £290,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 11 the Paddocks | £54,000 (1997) | £310,000 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 40 the Paddocks | £240,000 (2019) | £297,500 (2025) | +3.6% | -0.5% |
| 26 the Paddocks | £65,000 (1997) | £318,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 30 the Paddocks | £58,500 (1997) | £275,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 5 the Paddocks | £88,500 (1998) | £350,000 (2025) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 21 the Paddocks | £170,000 (2006) | £302,500 (2025) | +3.1% | +0.1% |
| 18 the Paddocks | £45,000 (1996) | £245,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 32 the Paddocks | £75,500 (2000) | £331,000 (2024) | +6.4% | +3.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Paddocks, Hitchin is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 134 | 95.0% | £169,950 | £45,000 – £350,000 |
| Semi-detached | 7 | 5.0% | £110,000 | £60,000 – £290,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Paddocks, Hitchin
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 141 freehold — 0.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 141 | 100.0% | £169,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.7% | £46,000 |
| Existing home | 140 | 99.3% | £169,475 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -72.9%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
Section 07
Living in The Paddocks, Hitchin
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across North Hertfordshire, 49.3% of 67,462 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 273 | 0.4% |
| B | 7,267 | 10.8% |
| C | 25,734 | 38.1% |
| D | 23,792 | 35.3% |
| E | 8,065 | 12.0% |
| F | 1,896 | 2.8% |
| G | 435 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in North Hertfordshire at £1,424 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,016 for a one-bedroom home and £1,564 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £169,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.11% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of SG4, 3 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 1 violent, 1 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 1 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 55.7 times quieter.
Against the 133,210 residents the 2021 census counted in North Hertfordshire, that is 0.02 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around The Paddocks, Hitchin
The 2021 census counted 133,210 residents in North Hertfordshire across 56,733 households. 65.9% of those households own their home and 34.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
17 state and independent schools have a SG4 postcode: 16 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hitchin Girls' School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,357 |
| Highover Junior Mixed and Infant School | Primary | Community school | 433 |
| William Ransom Primary School | Primary | Community school | 419 |
| Codicote Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 276 |
| Whitehill Junior School | Primary | Community school | 241 |
| St Andrew's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Hitchin | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 234 |
| Highbury Infant School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 195 |
| St Ippolyts Church of England Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 161 |
| Mary Exton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 146 |
| Kimpton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 133 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Hitchin Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Stevenage Rail Station | Rail | 4.1 km |
| Letchworth Garden City Rail Station | Rail | 7.0 km |
| Knebworth Rail Station | Rail | 7.7 km |
Section 09
How The Paddocks, Hitchin compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Paddocks, Hitchin sits above that national figure — +7.3%.
Within Hitchin the street ranks 653 of 772 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £235,000 (-28.1%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £45,000 to £350,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
The Paddocks, Hitchin sits in North Hertfordshire, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in North Hertfordshire at 10.0 times median local earnings of £42,555 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- High Street£250,000 median
- Walsworth Road£180,000 median
- Queen Street£175,000 median
- Stevenage Road£208,500 median
- Wedgewood Road£86,000 median
- Millstream Close£101,000 median
- Benslow Lane£320,000 median
- Ninesprings Way£240,000 median
- Woolgrove Road£174,000 median
- Talisman Street£112,000 median
- Cooks Way£200,000 median
- Keats Way£145,750 median
- Cadwell Lane£122,646 median
- Halsey Drive£178,000 median
- Common Rise£166,000 median
- Coleridge Close£208,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 32 the Paddocks8 sales
- 23 the Paddocks8 sales
- 17 the Paddocks6 sales
- 5 the Paddocks6 sales
- 10 the Paddocks5 sales
- 11 the Paddocks5 sales
- 26 the Paddocks5 sales
- 18 the Paddocks5 sales
- 29 the Paddocks5 sales
- 35 the Paddocks5 sales
- 2 the Paddocks5 sales
- 7 the Paddocks5 sales
- 1 the Paddocks4 sales
- 20 the Paddocks4 sales
- 21 the Paddocks4 sales
- 31 the Paddocks4 sales
- 34 the Paddocks4 sales
- 3 the Paddocks4 sales
- 25 the Paddocks4 sales
- 24 the Paddocks4 sales
- 30 the Paddocks3 sales
- 37 the Paddocks3 sales
- 4 the Paddocks3 sales
- 42 the Paddocks3 sales
Back to Hitchin house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Paddocks, Hitchin?
The median price paid in The Paddocks, Hitchin across every sale on the register is £169,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in The Paddocks, Hitchin?
141 sales are on record for The Paddocks, Hitchin, the most recent completing on 24 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Paddocks, Hitchin house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +30.2% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -5.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Paddocks, Hitchin house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £297,500, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in The Paddocks, Hitchin?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 24 Mar 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “The Paddocks, Hitchin house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.