Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 2 secondary schools. Oaklands Primary School is the nearest published school at 709 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL6 0UP
Welwyn East · Welwyn Hatfield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Welwyn East
- Local authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Postcode district
- AL6
- Postcode sector
- AL6 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL6 0UP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 1987
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL6
- Postcode sector
- AL6 0
- Latitude
- 51.844845
- Longitude
- -0.188265
- British National Grid easting
- 524,900
- British National Grid northing
- 217,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Welwyn Hatfield · E07000241
- Electoral ward
- Welwyn East · E05011072
- Parish or community
- E04004822
- Westminster constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield · E14001573
- Output area
- E00121692
- Lower layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 001A · E01023965
- Middle layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 001 · E02004980
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
Explore AL6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 2
- 709 m
Oaklands Primary School
Community school
- 805 m
St Michael's Woolmer Green CofE VA Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.2 km
All Saints Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Datchworth
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 154
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 75
- Anti social behaviour 26
- Criminal damage and arson 12
- Vehicle crime 10
- Other theft 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL6 0 residents
- 6,604
Age bands in AL6 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.6%
1,015 residents
690 residents
1,062 residents
2,233 residents
1,722 residents
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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
KNEBWORTH & MARYMEAD PRACTICE
7 ST MARTINS ROAD, KNEBWORTH, SG3 6ER
ODS code E82035
2.4 km
BRIDGE COTTAGE SURGERY
41 HIGH STREET, WELWYN, AL6 9EF
ODS code E82019
2.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mardley Avenue
BCT · Mardley Hill
- 0.1 miles
Mardley Avenue
BCT · Mardley Hill
- 0.2 miles
The Drive
BCT · Mardley Hill
- 0.2 miles
The Drive
BCT · Mardley Hill
- 0.3 miles
The North Star PH
BCT · Mardley Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Welwyn Hatfield 001A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,910 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
154 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 75 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.