Buying in Leatherhead: the data-sheet

Leatherhead sits in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, covered by the KT22 postcode, where the River Mole comes down off the Downs and the M25 meets the A24. The station is about 0.7 km from the centre with services to Waterloo and Victoria, and the outcode stretches to take in Ashtead and Fetcham, which is why KT22’s figures describe a wider area than the town name suggests.

Every figure below carries the window it was measured over.

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The 6-dimension summary

Dimension	Leatherhead (KT22)	Source and vintage
Median sold price	£525,000	HMLR PPD, 12 months to 31 Jul 2026
State primaries and secondaries within 3 km rated Good or Outstanding	10 of 11	Ofsted / GIAS, as at 17 Sep 2026
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents (Mole Valley)	54.3	Home Office / ONS, year to Mar 2026
Premises with 100 Mbit/s or faster available	70.6%	Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026
Council tax, Band D	£2,519.86	Mole Valley, 2026/27
Land within 2 km of the centre in Flood Zone 2 or 3	12.4%	EA Flood Map for Planning, Jul 2026

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Schools

This is the densest school cluster of the six towns in this series: twenty schools sit within 3 km of the centre — nine state primaries, two state secondaries, five independent schools and four further state special and all-age settings.

Three of the nine primaries hold Outstanding ratings, five hold Good, and one was rated Requires Improvement at its last inspection in July 2019. Both state secondaries are rated Good or better:

School	Ofsted rating	Last inspection	Distance
St Andrew’s Catholic School	Outstanding	22 May 2024	1.0 km
Therfield School	Good	28 February 2013	1.3 km

The contrast between those two dates is the point. St Andrew’s was inspected in May 2024; Therfield’s grade dates from February 2013, before two framework changes. Both read as positive in a listing; only one describes a school as inspectors would find it now. How the Ofsted changes affect school ratings sets out what is comparable and what is not, and the best-rated state secondaries in Surrey shows where St Andrew’s sits county-wide.

The independent cluster — St John’s at 0.2 km, Downsend and Little Downsend within a kilometre, RGS Surrey Hills and City of London Freemen’s at about 3 km — is part of what holds prices up on the streets nearest the centre. Independents inspected by the ISI carry no Ofsted grade.

What to check. Three Outstanding primaries in one radius does not mean any given address can access them. Surrey’s admissions criteria, not proximity, decide.

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Crime

Area	Recorded crime per 1,000 residents	Period
Mole Valley	54.3	Apr 2025 – Mar 2026
Surrey (11 districts)	59.1	Apr 2025 – Mar 2026
England	80.3	Apr 2025 – Mar 2026

Mole Valley recorded 4,822 offences across a population of 88,808 in the year to March 2026 — fifth lowest of Surrey’s eleven districts, and around two-thirds of the England rate.

Leatherhead’s town centre, its retail park and the M25 junction give it a different category profile from Ashtead or Fetcham, which sit in the same district average. For a purchase the useful number is the postcode-level rate broken down by category. Our crime methodology explains how that is built, and the lowest-crime Surrey towns on a population-weighted basis gives the district ranking.

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Broadband

Coverage tier	KT22 (% of premises)	Source
30 Mbit/s or faster	95.5%	Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026
100 Mbit/s or faster	70.6%	Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026
300 Mbit/s or faster	70.6%	Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026
Gigabit-capable	70.6%	Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026
Unable to receive 30 Mbit/s	4.4%	Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026

Each figure is the mean, across the 865 postcodes in KT22 — the largest postcode count of the six outcodes here — of Ofcom’s per-postcode percentage of premises. These are download-speed tiers, not technologies: Ofcom does not publish full-fibre coverage at postcode level, and the tiers nest, so every premise counted at 300 Mbit/s is also counted at 100 and at 30.

Just over seven in ten KT22 premises can reach 100 Mbit/s or faster. That is below Dorking (83.7%) and Godalming (76.5%), and the 4.4% that cannot reach 30 Mbit/s is higher than either. KT22’s rural western edge towards Fetcham Downs pulls the average down while the town centre itself is well served.

Because the spread within the outcode is wide, the address-level check is the one that counts. The Surrey postcodes still below 30 Mbit/s shows where the gaps are.

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Council Tax

Leatherhead is billed by Mole Valley District Council. The 2026/27 charges below include the county, police and fire precepts.

Band	Annual charge 2026/27
Band B	£1,959.89
Band C	£2,239.88
Band D	£2,519.86
Band E	£3,079.83
Band F	£3,639.80
Band G	£4,199.77

Mole Valley’s Band D is the lowest of the four districts in this series — £85.01 a year under Waverley and £74.99 under Tandridge. Within KT22 the band mix is wide: the flats that made up 107 of the 337 sales in the past 12 months — just under a third of them — sit low in the range, while the detached stock towards Fetcham and Ashtead frequently reaches F and G. Band D by district across Surrey has the previous year’s full comparison.

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Property Market

Across the 12 months to 31 July 2026, 337 sales were registered in KT22 at a median of £525,000. The middle half fell between £290,000 and £800,000 — the widest spread relative to the median of the six towns here — and 51 sales went above £1m. Leasehold accounted for 33.8%.

Property type	Sales	Median price
Flat or maisonette	107	£253,000
Detached	103	£930,000
Semi-detached	77	£555,000
Terraced	39	£432,000
Other	11	£435,000

Snapshot from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data for sales registered between 1 August 2025 and 31 July 2026. Price Paid Data lags completion by several weeks, so recent months fill in over time.

Read the mix, not just the median. KT22’s median is set by an unusually mixed sample. Flats were 107 of the 337 sales in this window — 32% — with a median of £253,000, while detached houses were 103, or 30.6%, with a median of £930,000. A median that sits between two clusters that far apart tells you as much about which types happened to sell as it does about what any individual property is worth.

The mean sale price across the window was £1,058,056 against a median of £525,000. A mean more than double the median is a sign that a handful of very large transactions are in the sample, and it is the reason we lead on medians.

Energy performance of the local stock. The register holds 12,335 certificates for KT22. Band D is the most common and 47% are rated C or better — the highest proportion of the six towns in this series.

EPC band	Certificates
A	18
B	1,883
C	3,940
D	4,204
E	1,833
F	389
G	68

The 1,883 B-rated certificates are the signature of KT22’s newer flats. If you are buying to let, what MEES means for rental stock starts from the certificate.

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Flood Risk

Dimension	Within 2 km of Leatherhead centre	Source
Land in Flood Zone 3	7.6%	EA Flood Map for Planning, Jul 2026
Land in Flood Zone 2	4.8%	EA Flood Map for Planning, Jul 2026
Land at high surface-water risk	1.31%	EA NaFRA2 RoFSW, Jan 2025
Land at medium surface-water risk	1.12%	EA NaFRA2 RoFSW, Jan 2025

The River Mole runs through the town, and 12.4% of the land within 2 km of the centre falls in Flood Zone 2 or 3 — second only to Weybridge among the six. The zone-3 land tracks the river through the middle of the town rather than sitting at its edge, which means it is close to housing rather than confined to open meadow.

Leatherhead also has the highest surface-water exposure of the six: 1.31% of land within 2 km is in the Environment Agency’s high band, meaning a greater than 3.3% annual chance of flooding to at least 200 mm, with a further 1.12% at medium. Surface water follows slope and drainage rather than the river, so a property outside the river zone is not automatically clear of it. How surface-water flooding works in Surrey explains the bands, and our flood-risk methodology covers how the zones are read.

These are land-area percentages, not property counts. Both checks are address-level.

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At the viewing stage

• Which primary serves the admissions area for this address — three Outstanding primaries in the radius does not mean access to them?
• Is this postcode’s crime rate above or below the Mole Valley average for residential categories?
• What speed tier does this address actually reach — 100 Mbit/s or faster, or is it among the 4.4% of premises that cannot reach 30 Mbit/s?
• What band is it, and what is the Mole Valley 2026/27 charge for that band?
• What have comparable properties of the same type sold for nearby — given how far KT22’s median moves with the mix?
• Is it in Flood Zone 2 or 3, and separately, what is its surface-water band?

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Further reading

• Leatherhead area data — the same dimensions, kept current, on our Mole Valley pages
• KT22 outcode data — schools, EPC and market aggregates across the outcode
• Buying in Cobham: the data-sheet — the neighbouring Elmbridge town
• How we calculate flood risk — zones, surface water, and what the bands mean

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Researching a specific property while you’re still viewing? A Property Report scopes the checks to that address: EPC and flood risk at the building, council tax band, broadband, the nearest schools, crime, air quality and environmental context, for £29.99. An Area Report covers the postcode for £24.99.

This article is general information only. It is not financial, legal, or property investment advice. Always obtain independent advice before committing to a property purchase.

Sources. Property market: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright, OGL v3.0, sales registered 1 Aug 2025 – 31 Jul 2026, re-queried 28 Sep 2026 after the 18 Sep 2026 Land Registry reload (HMLR 2026-08-28 restatement). Schools: DfE GIAS and Ofsted inspection records, queried 17 Sep 2026. Crime: Home Office police recorded crime with ONS mid-year population estimates, year to March 2026. Broadband: Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, published 19 November 2025, reporting coverage as at July 2025; loaded to the Home-Checker ofcom_broadband table on 18 September 2026. Each figure is the percentage of premises with that service available, averaged across the 865 KT22 postcodes present in that release. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre coverage at postcode level, so the 100 Mbit/s tier is a speed band, not a technology. Postcodes Ofcom retired between the 2024 and 2025 releases still sit in the table carrying their older values and are excluded from every figure here. Council tax: GOV.UK council tax levels set by local authorities in England, 2026 to 2027 (published 25 March 2026), Table 9. Energy: MHCLG Energy Performance of Buildings Register, outcode aggregate snapshot 21 May 2026. Flood: Environment Agency Flood Map for Planning (artefact vintage 15 July 2026) and NaFRA2 Risk of Flooding from Surface Water (published 28 January 2025). Station distance: OpenStreetMap, straight-line from the town centroid.