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Enfield

Enfield is a town in Hertfordshire, England, with a population of around 45,000. It has two GP surgeries, one supermarket, and five restaurants and cafés, along with 26 bus stops. The nearest railway station is Waltham Cross, 0.4 km away, the average sold house price is around £462,818, and there were around 412 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Enfield area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Broxbourne area is around the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 99,007 residents at roughly 1,925 people per km².

Council
Broxbourne
County
Hertfordshire
Constituency
Broxbourne
Police force
Hertfordshire
46/ 100

My Area Score

Mixed

Ranked 180th of 294 English council areas — better than 39% of them.

Low crime62
Home affordability21
Affordable rents13
Good schools19
Life expectancy60
Low deprivation51
Employment48
Low council tax79

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

11°CCloudy

  • Today: 11° / 7° · 20% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:59Sunset 16:28

9h 28m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

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

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 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

Crime

311 reported · August 2026▼ 17% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences88
  • Anti-social behaviour81
  • Other theft32
  • Vehicle crime29

2 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Town · Metropolitan

Local policing priorities

  • To prevent and detect Robbery and theft person offences in and around the Enfield Town locality.
  • To reduce ASB in and around Palace gardens and the car parks.

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

Road safety

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)

Food hygiene

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

  • 389 rated 4–5 ★ (286 top)
  • 33 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Enfield Town (0.4 km)
  • 65 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Enfield Town (0.4 km):

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Live buses at Enfield Town / Church Street:

  • 377 → Ponders End, Enfield Bus Garage · 1 min
  • 456 → Crews Hill · 1 min
  • 329 → Wood Green · 7 min
  • W9 → Chase Farm Hospital · 12 min

Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

House prices

£414,692 average▲ 2.3% YoY

Across Broxbourne · to 2026-08

Detached£897,035
Semi-detached£528,531
Terraced£414,281
Flat£225,424

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£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

Affordability

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

Property sales

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

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 139.8p · AppleGreen (5.8 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 145.8p · AppleGreen (4.3 km)

21 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

150 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 22 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 150 kW
  • Nearest: Palace Gardens Shop Centre (0.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres7
  • Gyms3
  • Swimming pools5
  • Sports pitches93
  • Golf courses2
  • Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local news

Population

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

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • 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

Deprivation

Around the average in England

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,306 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

A £1,538
B £1,794
C £2,050
D £2,306
E £2,819
F £3,332
G £3,844
H £4,613

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

Schools

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)

Secondary schools:

  • The Broxbourne SchoolOutstanding
  • Goffs - Churchgate AcademyGood
  • Haileybury TurnfordGood
  • Robert Barclay AcademyGood
  • St Mary's Church of England High School (VA)Good
  • The John Warner SchoolInadequate
  • Goffs Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Broxbourne

Care & health services

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

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (ENFIELD TOWN)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 73 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

134 applications decided

86.6% granted · 116 granted, 18 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Feryal Clark

Labour

Enfield North

Recent votes:

  • AyeDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoOpposition day motion: Support for British farmers
  • AyeWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • AyeDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Conservative majority

  • Lab 3
  • Con 25
  • Ref 2

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools19
  • GPs & clinics8
  • Pharmacies6
  • Supermarkets8
  • Parks & greens24
  • Restaurants & cafés75

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

5,210 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

784 jobs advertised · £42,403 avg

e.g. HGV Driver, Fashion Design | Sewing Teacher, Graduate Teaching Assistant

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£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

Energy efficiency

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

Grid electricity

66% low-carbon electricity

Wind 38% · Gas 34% · Nuclear 16% · Solar 8%

139 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Health

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

Wellbeing

  • 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

Health services

10 GP surgeries · 3 pharmacies in EN2

  • North London Forensic Services-Bcss Inpatient Unit
  • White Lodge Medical Practice
  • Bincote Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Enfield North:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Burleigh House, Enfield · 0.1 km

    Burleigh House was a house in Enfield, near London, that was built in the mid-17th century for the lawyer James Mayoe. It was constructed on the grounds of a house once owned by the merchant Benjamin Deicrowe Jr. that…

  • Enfield Grammar School · 0.1 km

    Enfield Grammar School is a boys' comprehensive school and sixth form with academy status in Enfield Town in the London Borough of Enfield in North London. The school was founded in 1558 and inherited part of a charit…

  • Barclays Bank, Enfield · 0.2 km

    Barclays Bank, at 20 The Town, Enfield, formerly the London and Provincial Bank, is a Grade II listed building in the London Borough of Enfield. It was designed by William Gillbee Scott in a Flemish Renaissance style…

  • Old Vestry Office, Enfield · 0.2 km

    The Old Vestry Office is a grade II listed building at 22 The Town, Enfield, London.

  • Trinity Church, Enfield · 0.2 km

    Trinity Church, Enfield is located at Church Street, Enfield, London. The church was formed in 1983 by the union of Enfield Methodist Church and St Paul's United Reformed Church.

  • St Andrew's Enfield · 0.2 km

    St Andrew's Enfield is a Church of England church in Enfield, London, and the original parish church of Enfield. It is a grade II* listed building with Historic England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Enfield?
Enfield is a town in Hertfordshire, England, in the Broxbourne local authority.
How deprived is Enfield?
The Broxbourne local authority, which includes Enfield, is around the average in England on the IoD2025.