Homes & housing costs · Higher than most
New-build transaction share
21.7%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
Town guide · Town · England
Explore house prices and housing, home energy and crime and safety in Bishop's Stortford. This local area guide brings together 600 published figures for this town in England, with the source and date shown for each.
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In line with Average across published towns and cities in England
1,452.881 above Average across published towns and cities in England
£143,197 above Average across published towns and cities in England
23.7 percentage points above Average across published towns and cities in England
In line with Average across published towns and cities in England
In line with Average across published towns and cities in England
13.7 percentage points above Average across published towns and cities in England
3.8 percentage points below Average across published towns and cities in England
£189,032 above Average across published towns and cities in England
£157,922 above Average across published towns and cities in England
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Homes & housing costs · Higher than most
21.7%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
Homes & housing costs · Higher than most
£260,000
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
Home energy certificates · Higher than most
100.0%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Energy Performance of Buildings data · Lodgements to 2026-08-17
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
21.0%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
220.17 per 1,000 residents per year
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
186
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
248
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
21
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
People & households · Lower than most
9.8%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
79.2%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
11.0%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
41.8%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
15.6%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
31.4%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
16.9%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
14.4%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
49.5%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
7.6%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
40.7%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
12.5%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
46.4%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
48.5%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
Air, land & environment · Lower than most
-12 m
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OS Terrain 50 · 2026-07
Nature & green space · Higher than most
33
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OS Open Greenspace · 2026-04
Schools & childcare · Higher than most
10
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Ofsted childcare providers and inspections · 2026-03-31
Health & care · Lower than most
4.9%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Quality and Outcomes Framework · 2024-25
Health & care · Lower than most
11.9%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Quality and Outcomes Framework · 2024-25
Health & care · Lower than most
2.4%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Quality and Outcomes Framework · 2024-25
Health & care · Higher than most
22,882
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Quality and Outcomes Framework · 2024-25
Health & care · Higher than most
3
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Care Quality Commission register · 01 September 2026
Health & care · Higher than most
9
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Care Quality Commission register · 01 September 2026
Health & care · Higher than most
22
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Care Quality Commission register · 01 September 2026
Health & care · Lower than most
36.4%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
GP Patient Survey 2026 · 2026
Transport & getting around · Higher than most
32
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
STATS19 road safety open data · 2021 to 2025
Transport & getting around · Higher than most
238
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Street Manager roadworks open data · 2026-07
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
196
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme · 2026-10-02
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
81
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme · 2026-10-02
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
6
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
11
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
7
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
2
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
10
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
5
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
3
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
6
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
8
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
14
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
30
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
24
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
25
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
3
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
3
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Every figure belongs to one of these groups, so you always know whether you are reading about the whole place, a neighbourhood, or the wider council area.
70
Whole town
Totals and figures for the town boundary
42
Neighbourhood range
Lowest, median and highest across local areas
402
Around the centre
A representative location in the town
86
Wider council area
Named council areas around the town
The small numbers after figure labels refer to this key. They show how a figure was made, not how accurate it is. Open any figure to see its source, date and important limits.
Published council-wide context for councils linked to Bishop's Stortford, not a finding about the whole place or a property.
These records are published for councils linked to known active postcodes in this place. The councils cover a wider area: a listed designation is not a finding that it intersects this town or any property. The list may not be exhaustive. AQMAs are management designations, not measured pollution concentrations, property exposure or clean-air charging zones. Absence of a designation is not evidence of clean air. Great Britain only; Northern Ireland mapping is not included.
East Hertfordshire · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
An area encompassing a number of properties around the junction of Dunmow Road, Hockerill Street, London Road and Stanstead Road in Bishops Stortford.
Official UK-AIR designation recordEast Hertfordshire · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
A number of properties in central Hertford
Official UK-AIR designation recordEast Hertfordshire · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
London Rd and Cambridge Rd and the adjoining roads.
Official UK-AIR designation recordRegister snapshot: 2026-10-20. Imported 25 October 2026.
Mapped Nitrate Vulnerable Zone records are temporarily unavailable for Bishop's Stortford. This does not establish whether any designation intersects the settlement outline or indicate water quality.
Original published categories whose polygons intersect the official Bishop's Stortford settlement outline, including boundary contact.
These are original category codes and definitions from the retained Source Protection Zones (Merged) dataset whose polygons intersect this place’s official mapped settlement outline, including boundary-only contact. This is not a whole-town or property designation, a finding about a drinking-water supply, or evidence of contamination, water quality or risk. These definitions do not identify individual supplies. Dataset dates do not establish current legal status. Absence of a listed category does not establish that land or a property is outside a zone. England only; separate Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented. Precautionary groundwater abstraction and land-use designation at a postcode centroid, not an address-level finding or drinking-water quality result. Outside a mapped zone does not establish clean or unprotected groundwater. Welsh zones and the separate Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented.
Zone 1 — inner protection zone, within a 50-day groundwater travel time of the abstraction
Zone 2 — outer protection zone, within a 400-day groundwater travel time of the abstraction
Zone 3 — total catchment, the whole area of ground needed to support the abstraction
Dataset reference period: 2026-03-06. Downloaded 19 October 2026. Imported 19 October 2026.
Broadband and mobile connectivity
Ofcom publishes these fixed-broadband, full-fibre take-up and mobile coverage profiles for named local and unitary authorities, rather than for town boundaries. They are shown as wider council-area context for Bishop's Stortford; availability figures are provider predictions, not measurements at every address.
These highlights come from complete all-premises and residential broadband profiles, both published full-fibre take-up measures, the complete 2G, 3G, 4G, voice, 5G and standalone-5G network-count profiles, and the premises and grid-pixel counts used as the mobile basis. View every published broadband, full-fibre and mobile value.
Published source details for this wider council-area context:
600 sourced figures are listed here with the source, period and geography. Open a topic above for comparisons and detailed explanations.