Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 3 secondary schools. Sherrardswood School is the nearest published school at 652 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL6 9XB
Welwyn West · Welwyn Hatfield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Welwyn West
- Local authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Postcode district
- AL6
- Postcode sector
- AL6 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL6 9XB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2010
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL6
- Postcode sector
- AL6 9
- Latitude
- 51.833998
- Longitude
- -0.209253
- British National Grid easting
- 523,484
- British National Grid northing
- 216,558
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Welwyn Hatfield · E07000241
- Electoral ward
- Welwyn West · E05011073
- Parish or community
- E04004822
- Westminster constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield · E14001573
- Output area
- E00121712
- Lower layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 002B · E01023968
- 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
Explore AL6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 3
- 652 m
Sherrardswood School
Other independent school
- 906 m
Tenterfield Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 959 m
Welwyn St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 332
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 122
- Anti social behaviour 59
- Other theft 56
- Criminal damage and arson 21
- Public order 17
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
BRIDGE COTTAGE SURGERY
41 HIGH STREET, WELWYN, AL6 9EF
ODS code E82019
641 m
KNEBWORTH & MARYMEAD PRACTICE
7 ST MARTINS ROAD, KNEBWORTH, SG3 6ER
ODS code E82035
4.1 km
THE GARDEN CITY PRACTICE
BIRDCROFT ROAD, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL8 6EH
ODS code E82041
4.1 km
PEARTREE LANE SURGERY
110 PEARTREE LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 3UJ
ODS code E82040
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Carleton Rise
BCT · Welwyn
- 0.1 miles
Church Place
BCT · Welwyn
- 0.2 miles
Church Place
BCT · Welwyn
- 0.3 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Welwyn
- 0.3 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Welwyn
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Welwyn Hatfield 002B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,175 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
332 published events cover 12 months, averaging 27.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 122 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.