Potters Bar
TownTown in Hertsmere, East of England.
Potters Bar is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Potters Bar add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 15% of people in Potters Bar live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Potters Bar compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Potters Bar safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Potters Bar at a rate of 91.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 187 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Potters Bar.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (670), anti-social behaviour (437) and other crime (396).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Potters Bar was 89.8 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Potters Bar, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Potters Bar has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Potters Bar
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hertsmere 001A | 1,460 | 39.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.3% |
| Hertsmere 001B | 1,700 | 64.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.3% |
| Hertsmere 001C | 1,704 | 72.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.3% |
| Hertsmere 001D | 1,436 | 164.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 70.4% |
| Hertsmere 001E | 1,680 | 216.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 84.9% |
| Hertsmere 002A | 2,077 | 34.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.0% |
| Hertsmere 002B | 1,553 | 36.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Hertsmere 002C | 1,712 | 60.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| Hertsmere 002D | 1,467 | 115.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.4% |
| Hertsmere 003A | 1,588 | 39.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.8% |
| Hertsmere 003B | 1,618 | 140.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.4% |
| Hertsmere 003C | 1,312 | 153.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.0% |
| Hertsmere 003D | 1,649 | 93.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.0% |
| Hertsmere 003E | 1,585 | 164.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| Welwyn Hatfield 015D | 1,692 | 59.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 73.8% |
Your MP
- Sir Oliver DowdenConservativeMP for Hertsmere
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Potters Bar1
Middle areas in Potters Bar3
Towns near Potters Bar6
Potters Bar in brief
Potters Bar is a town in Hertsmere, East of England.
About 23,626 people lived in Potters Bar in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £579,000 in 2025 across 300 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 91.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Potters Bar was £579,000 in 2025.
Potters Bar had 23,394 usual residents at the census.
About 15% of people in Potters Bar live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Potters Bar, 92.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.