Walsworth Road, Hitchin house prices

Walsworth Road, Hitchin house prices are built from 439 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 13 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £180,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +13.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -18.7%.

HM Land Registry439 sales161 with floor areaLatest sale 13 May 2026

The chart tracks the median Walsworth Road, Hitchin house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Walsworth Road, Hitchin is £375,000 in 2023; the lowest is £56,000 in 1998. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £70,000 to £274,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £148,421, so the real change over the whole record is +84.9% — about +2.14% 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: +13.4% in cash against -18.7% 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.

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.

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 Walsworth Road, Hitchin values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Walsworth Road, Hitchin is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

347 of the sales on record are leasehold and 92 freehold — 79.0% 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.

The median leasehold sale is £175,000 and the median freehold sale £275,000 — a gap of +57.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -22.2%. 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.

A further 13 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

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.

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 £180,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.49% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Walsworth Road, Hitchin sits above that national figure — +14.3%.

Within Hitchin the street ranks 629 of 772 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £235,000 (-23.4%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,946 per square metre, across 161 of the 439 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £27,500 to £1,660,000. 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.

Walsworth Road, 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.

Streets nearby

• High Street£250,000 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
• Cambridge Road£245,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 52A Walsworth Road7 sales
• 86, JOHNSON PLACE, 65 Walsworth Road5 sales
• FLAT 43, SANDERS PLACE Walsworth Road5 sales
• 3, ROSE COTTAGE GARDENS, 89 Walsworth Road5 sales
• FLAT 6, SANDERS PLACE Walsworth Road5 sales
• 57 Walsworth Road5 sales
• FLAT 42, SANDERS PLACE Walsworth Road5 sales
• 43D Walsworth Road5 sales
• 70, JOHNSON PLACE, 65 Walsworth Road4 sales
• FLAT 54, SANDERS PLACE Walsworth Road4 sales
• FLAT 23, SANDERS PLACE Walsworth Road4 sales
• FLAT 26, SANDERS PLACE Walsworth Road4 sales
• 43C Walsworth Road4 sales
• 92, JOHNSON PLACE, 65 Walsworth Road4 sales
• 14, ROSE COTTAGE GARDENS, 89 Walsworth Road4 sales
• FLAT 13, SANDERS PLACE Walsworth Road4 sales
• UPPER FLAT 2, BYTHAM BANK Walsworth Road4 sales
• 86 Walsworth Road4 sales
• 100 Walsworth Road4 sales
• FLAT 22, SANDERS PLACE Walsworth Road3 sales
• 82, JOHNSON PLACE, 65 Walsworth Road3 sales
• 9, GREAT NORTHERN COURT, 63 Walsworth Road3 sales
• 43A Walsworth Road3 sales
• 23, LYON COURT Walsworth Road3 sales

Back to Hitchin house prices.

What is the average house price in Walsworth Road, Hitchin?

The median price paid in Walsworth Road, Hitchin across every sale on the register is £180,000. 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 Walsworth Road, Hitchin?

439 sales are on record for Walsworth Road, Hitchin, the most recent completing on 13 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Walsworth Road, Hitchin house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +13.4% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -18.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Walsworth Road, Hitchin house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £375,000, set in 2023. 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 Walsworth Road, Hitchin?

£2,946 per square metre, from the 161 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 13 May 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, “Walsworth Road, 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.