Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 1 secondary schools. Oaklands Primary School is the nearest published school at 543 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL6 9SL
Knebworth · North Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Knebworth
- Local authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage
- Postcode district
- AL6
- Postcode sector
- AL6 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL6 9SL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2005
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL6
- Postcode sector
- AL6 9
- Latitude
- 51.845395
- Longitude
- -0.201847
- British National Grid easting
- 523,963
- British National Grid northing
- 217,838
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- North Hertfordshire · E07000099
- Electoral ward
- Knebworth · E05015768
- Parish or community
- E04004773
- Westminster constituency
- Stevenage · E14001516
- Output area
- E00119992
- Lower layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 015D · E01023627
- Middle layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 015 · E02004923
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
- 22
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 1
- 543 m
Oaklands Primary School
Community school
- 1.5 km
St Michael's Woolmer Green CofE VA Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.9 km
Sherrardswood School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 117
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 57
- Anti social behaviour 21
- Vehicle crime 8
- Burglary 7
- Other theft 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL6 9 residents
- 5,734
Age bands in AL6 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.7%
953 residents
459 residents
1,315 residents
1,568 residents
1,409 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
BRIDGE COTTAGE SURGERY
41 HIGH STREET, WELWYN, AL6 9EF
ODS code E82019
2.0 km
KNEBWORTH & MARYMEAD PRACTICE
7 ST MARTINS ROAD, KNEBWORTH, SG3 6ER
ODS code E82035
2.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
The North Star PH
BCT · Mardley Hill
- 0.4 miles
The North Star PH
BCT · Mardley Hill
- 0.4 miles
The Avenue
BCT · Mardley Hill
- 0.5 miles
The Avenue
BCT · Mardley Hill
- 0.6 miles
Mardley Avenue
BCT · Mardley Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Hertfordshire 015D, 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
28,342 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
117 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 57 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.