Schools
43 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 5 secondary schools. Creswick Academy is the nearest published school at 556 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL7 4GB
Hollybush · Welwyn Hatfield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hollybush
- Local authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Postcode district
- AL7
- Postcode sector
- AL7 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL7 4GB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL7
- Postcode sector
- AL7 4
- Latitude
- 51.783211
- Longitude
- -0.205102
- British National Grid easting
- 523,909
- British National Grid northing
- 210,917
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Welwyn Hatfield · E07000241
- Electoral ward
- Hollybush · E05011065
- Parish or community
- E43000083
- Westminster constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield · E14001573
- Output area
- E00173220
- Lower layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 009F · E01035607
- Middle layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 009 · E02004988
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
- 43
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 5
- 556 m
Creswick Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 925 m
Our Lady Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.3 km
The Ryde School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,626
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 682
- Anti social behaviour 288
- Criminal damage and arson 115
- Public order 108
- Shoplifting 102
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL7 4 residents
- 11,663
Age bands in AL7 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 22%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.6%
2,536 residents
1,226 residents
3,529 residents
2,809 residents
1,452 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
7
within 5 km
SPRING HOUSE HEALTH
SPRING HOUSE SITE, ASCOTS LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 4HL
ODS code Y02639
986 m
THE GARDEN CITY PRACTICE
BIRDCROFT ROAD, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL8 6EH
ODS code E82041
1.6 km
PEARTREE LANE SURGERY
110 PEARTREE LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 3UJ
ODS code E82040
1.6 km
HALL GROVE GROUP PRACTICE
4 HALL GROVE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 4PL
ODS code E82062
1.7 km
WRAFTON HOUSE SURGERY
9-11 WELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 0BS
ODS code E82002
2.4 km
LISTER HOUSE SURGERY
THE COMMON, HATFIELD, AL10 0NL
ODS code E82018
2.6 km
BURVILL HOUSE SURGERY
52-54 DELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 8HP
ODS code E82023
2.9 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
- 0.0 miles
Campbell Drive
BCT · Mill Green
- 0.1 miles
Campbell Drive
BCT · Mill Green
- 0.2 miles
Boundary Lane
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
- 0.2 miles
Boundary Lane
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
- 0.2 miles
Chequersfield
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Welwyn Hatfield 009F, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,275 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
1,626 published events cover 12 months, averaging 135.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 682 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.