Schools
40 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 5 secondary schools. Applecroft School is the nearest published school at 330 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL8 6AS
Handside · Welwyn Hatfield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Handside
- Local authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Postcode district
- AL8
- Postcode sector
- AL8 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL8 6AS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1985
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL8
- Postcode sector
- AL8 6
- Latitude
- 51.797412
- Longitude
- -0.213545
- British National Grid easting
- 523,288
- British National Grid northing
- 212,482
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Welwyn Hatfield · E07000241
- Electoral ward
- Handside · E05011060
- Parish or community
- E43000083
- Westminster constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield · E14001573
- Output area
- E00121447
- Lower layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 006B · E01023917
- Middle layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 006 · E02004985
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 AL8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 40
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 5
- 330 m
Applecroft School
Academy converter
- 888 m
Stanborough School
Academy converter
- 898 m
Lakeside School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,452
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 800
- Shoplifting 516
- Anti social behaviour 396
- Public order 144
- Criminal damage and arson 133
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL8 6 residents
- 6,078
Age bands in AL8 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.7%
959 residents
561 residents
1,401 residents
1,619 residents
1,493 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
THE GARDEN CITY PRACTICE
BIRDCROFT ROAD, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL8 6EH
ODS code E82041
297 m
PEARTREE LANE SURGERY
110 PEARTREE LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 3UJ
ODS code E82040
1.1 km
SPRING HOUSE HEALTH
SPRING HOUSE SITE, ASCOTS LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 4HL
ODS code Y02639
2.3 km
HALL GROVE GROUP PRACTICE
4 HALL GROVE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 4PL
ODS code E82062
2.4 km
WRAFTON HOUSE SURGERY
9-11 WELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 0BS
ODS code E82002
3.6 km
BRIDGE COTTAGE SURGERY
41 HIGH STREET, WELWYN, AL6 9EF
ODS code E82019
3.6 km
LISTER HOUSE SURGERY
THE COMMON, HATFIELD, AL10 0NL
ODS code E82018
3.8 km
BURVILL HOUSE SURGERY
52-54 DELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 8HP
ODS code E82023
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Barleycroft Rd
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
- 0.1 miles
Barn Close
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
- 0.1 miles
Barn Close
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
- 0.1 miles
Birdcroft Rd
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
- 0.2 miles
Farm Close
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Welwyn Hatfield 006B, 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
29,305 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
2,452 published events cover 12 months, averaging 204.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 800 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.