Cuffley

11°COvercast

• Today: 11° / 8° · 17% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:59Sunset 16:28

9h 28m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Enfield - Bowes Primary School, United Kingdom

• 7.6 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.7% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

31 reported · August 2026▲ 55% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences11
• Anti-social behaviour8
• Other theft5
• Vehicle crime3

Neighbourhood team: Welwyn Hatfield South · Hertfordshire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

128 reported road collisions (2025)

35 killed or seriously injured · 155 casualties · 12.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

62 food businesses within 2 miles

• 47 rated 4–5 ★ (41 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Cuffley (0.2 km)
• 13 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£414,692 average▲ 2.3% YoY

Across Broxbourne · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,685 average monthly rent▲ 3% YoY

• 1 bed £1,132
• 2 bed £1,451
• 3 bed £1,780

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

10.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.8 times median annual pay (11.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,210 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 139.8p · AppleGreen (11.4 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 145.8p · AppleGreen (10.4 km)

11 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

68 charging locations within ~8 km

• 16 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 180 kW
• Nearest: Valley View Car Park 1 (1.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Swimming pools44
• Sports pitches17
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Landlords get ready for major changes at the Landlord Forum· 1 Nov 2026
• Residents invited to mark Remembrance Sunday across the Borough· 1 Nov 2026
• Council launches campaign to tackle dangerous parking outside schools· 1 Nov 2026
• Statement on behalf of Angie Ridgwell, Senior Responsible Officer, Hertfordshire Local Government Reorganisation Programme· 29 Oct 2026
• Young people elect new Youth Council cabinet· 14 Oct 2026

Source: Broxbourne Council

99,007 residents in Broxbourne · 1,925/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 63%
• 65+: 17%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK7,504
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,948
• Net moves+556

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Around the average in England

Ranked 152 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,306 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (34% of 42,330)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

42 schools · 16,278 pupils

30 primary · 7 secondary · 5 other

Ofsted: 16 of 20 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (80%)

42 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Broxbourne

1,176 CQC-registered services

• Care homes257
• GP practices171
• Dentists296
• Homecare agencies330
• Hospitals & hospices34

CQC ratings: 86% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 7 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Hertfordshire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 5 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

134 applications decided

86.6% granted · 116 granted, 18 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Sir Oliver Dowden

Conservative

Hertsmere

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority

• Lab 3
• Con 25
• Ref 2

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools3
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies1
• Parks & greens10
• Restaurants & cafés8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,210 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

29 jobs advertised · £34,604 avg

e.g. Bar and Waiting Team Member, Car Delivery Driver, IT Service Engineer

Source: Adzuna

£901 median full-time weekly pay

3.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,495 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

50% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 42,407 certificates

7.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

76% low-carbon electricity

Wind 45% · Gas 23% · Nuclear 21% · Biomass 11%

102 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.4 yrs women · 80.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Hertfordshire): 65.5 women · 65.4 men

65% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.2
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)4.3

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

10 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in EN6

• Parkfield Medical Centre
• Highview Medical Centre
• Cuffley And Goffs Oak Medical Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Hertsmere:

• Fund permanent, 24-hour police patrols in Jewish communities1,185 local signatures · 11,508 nationwide
• Remove the grey belt planning rules462 local signatures · 12,329 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND202 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth160 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Ensure fair and transparent faith security funding for all faith communities154 local signatures · 20,440 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Cuffley railway station · 0.2 km

  Cuffley railway station serves the village of Cuffley in the Welwyn Hatfield district of Hertfordshire. It also serves other nearby settlements, namely Goffs Oak, Northaw and the west of Cheshunt. It is 13 miles 17 ch…

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  Cuffley · 0.3 km

  Cuffley is a village in the civil parish of Northaw and Cuffley, in the Welwyn Hatfield district of south-east Hertfordshire located between Cheshunt and Potters Bar. It has a population of just over 4,000 people. It…

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  Northaw and Cuffley · 1.1 km

  Northaw and Cuffley is a civil parish in the Welwyn Hatfield borough of Hertfordshire, England. Located approximately 13.5 miles (21.7 km) north of central London and adjacent to the Greater London boundary, it is a p…

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  Burnt Farm Cottage · 1.7 km

  Burnt Farm Cottage is an historic building in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England. Standing on the western side of Burntfarm Ride, just north of Cuffley Brook, it dates to around 1840. It became a Grade II listed structu…

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  Tolmers Park · 2.0 km

  Tolmers Park is a manor house in Newgate Street Village near Hatfield in Hertfordshire, England.

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  Goffs Oak · 2.1 km

  Goffs Oak is a large village in the borough of Broxbourne in Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. It lies between Cuffley and Cheshunt, just north of the M25 motorway in a slightly more rural section of the London com…

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