Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 5 secondary schools. Holwell Primary School is the nearest published school at 270 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL7 3YA
Peartree · Welwyn Hatfield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Peartree
- Local authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Postcode district
- AL7
- Postcode sector
- AL7 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL7 3YA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL7
- Postcode sector
- AL7 3
- Latitude
- 51.794440
- Longitude
- -0.190909
- British National Grid easting
- 524,857
- British National Grid northing
- 212,190
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Welwyn Hatfield · E07000241
- Electoral ward
- Peartree · E05011069
- Parish or community
- E43000083
- Westminster constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield · E14001573
- Output area
- E00121644
- Lower layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 007B · E01023955
- Middle layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 007 · E02004986
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 AL7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 5
- 270 m
Holwell Primary School
Community school
- 333 m
Ludwick Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 369 m
Swallow Dell Primary and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,428
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,122
- Shoplifting 627
- Anti social behaviour 557
- Criminal damage and arson 214
- Public order 198
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL7 3 residents
- 11,086
Age bands in AL7 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 11%
2,522 residents
1,272 residents
3,627 residents
2,821 residents
1,261 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
PEARTREE LANE SURGERY
110 PEARTREE LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 3UJ
ODS code E82040
566 m
HALL GROVE GROUP PRACTICE
4 HALL GROVE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 4PL
ODS code E82062
849 m
THE GARDEN CITY PRACTICE
BIRDCROFT ROAD, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL8 6EH
ODS code E82041
1.3 km
SPRING HOUSE HEALTH
SPRING HOUSE SITE, ASCOTS LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 4HL
ODS code Y02639
1.3 km
WRAFTON HOUSE SURGERY
9-11 WELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 0BS
ODS code E82002
4.0 km
LISTER HOUSE SURGERY
THE COMMON, HATFIELD, AL10 0NL
ODS code E82018
4.2 km
BRIDGE COTTAGE SURGERY
41 HIGH STREET, WELWYN, AL6 9EF
ODS code E82019
4.3 km
BURVILL HOUSE SURGERY
52-54 DELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 8HP
ODS code E82023
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ethelred Close
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
- 0.1 miles
Longlands Road
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
- 0.1 miles
Longlands Road
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
- 0.2 miles
Knella Road
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
- 0.2 miles
Knella Road
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Welwyn Hatfield 007B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,615 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
3,428 published events cover 12 months, averaging 285.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,122 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.