Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 10 secondary schools. Sandridge School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL4 9HJ
Hatfield Villages · Welwyn Hatfield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- St Albans
- Ward
- Hatfield Villages
- Local authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Postcode district
- AL4
- Postcode sector
- AL4 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL4 9HJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL4
- Postcode sector
- AL4 9
- Latitude
- 51.776304
- Longitude
- -0.273492
- British National Grid easting
- 519,210
- British National Grid northing
- 210,035
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Welwyn Hatfield · E07000241
- Electoral ward
- Hatfield Villages · E05011064
- Parish or community
- E04004819
- Westminster constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield · E14001573
- Output area
- E00173254
- Lower layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 002F · E01033313
- Middle layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 002 · E02004981
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
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Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Suttons Farm, The Hyde, Woodcock Hill, St Albans, AL4 9HJ | 17 April 2020 | £2,000,000 |
| Suttons Farm, 1a The Bungalows, Woodcock Hill, St Albans, AL4 9HJ | 17 April 2019 | £465,000 |
| The Bungalows Suttons Farm, 3, Woodcock Hill, St Albans, AL4 9HJ | 8 February 2013 | £400,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 54
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 10
- 1.6 km
Sandridge School
Community school
- 2.1 km
Howe Dell Primary School
Community school
- 2.3 km
Skyswood Primary & Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 18
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 7
- Other theft 5
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 15
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- AL4 9 residents
- 11,409
9 female, 6 male
Age bands in AL4 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.2%
2,292 residents
1,144 residents
2,566 residents
3,371 residents
2,228 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider AL4 9 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 63.6%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 63.6%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 63.6%
- Gigabit-capable
- 63.6%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
6
within 5 km
WRAFTON HOUSE SURGERY
9-11 WELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 0BS
ODS code E82002
3.4 km
LISTER HOUSE SURGERY
THE COMMON, HATFIELD, AL10 0NL
ODS code E82018
3.5 km
BURVILL HOUSE SURGERY
52-54 DELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 8HP
ODS code E82023
3.6 km
PARKBURY HOUSE SURGERY
ST. PETERS STREET, ST ALBANS, AL1 3HD
ODS code E82060
4.7 km
GRANGE STREET SURGERY
2 GRANGE STREET, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5NF
ODS code E82059
4.8 km
HATFIELD ROAD SURGERY
2 THE PARADE, ELLIS HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3FY
ODS code E82004
4.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 1.0 miles
Ripon Way
BCT · Jersey Farm
- 1.1 miles
Ripon Way
BCT · Jersey Farm
- 1.1 miles
Stanton Close
BCT · Jersey Farm
- 1.1 miles
Stanton Close
BCT · Jersey Farm
- 1.1 miles
Newgate Close
BCT · Jersey Farm
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Welwyn Hatfield 002F, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,749 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
18 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 7 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.