Schools
43 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 5 secondary schools. Stanborough School is the nearest published school at 455 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL8 6XE
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 6XE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL8
- Postcode sector
- AL8 6
- Latitude
- 51.790714
- Longitude
- -0.213026
- British National Grid easting
- 523,342
- British National Grid northing
- 211,738
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
- E00121452
- Lower layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 006A · E01023916
- 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
- 43
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 5
- 455 m
Stanborough School
Academy converter
- 705 m
Lakeside School
Community special school
- 841 m
Applecroft School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,453
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 838
- Shoplifting 495
- Anti social behaviour 380
- Public order 150
- Criminal damage and arson 140
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
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within 5 km straight-line
THE GARDEN CITY PRACTICE
BIRDCROFT ROAD, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL8 6EH
ODS code E82041
763 m
PEARTREE LANE SURGERY
110 PEARTREE LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 3UJ
ODS code E82040
1.3 km
SPRING HOUSE HEALTH
SPRING HOUSE SITE, ASCOTS LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 4HL
ODS code Y02639
1.8 km
HALL GROVE GROUP PRACTICE
4 HALL GROVE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 4PL
ODS code E82062
2.2 km
WRAFTON HOUSE SURGERY
9-11 WELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 0BS
ODS code E82002
2.9 km
LISTER HOUSE SURGERY
THE COMMON, HATFIELD, AL10 0NL
ODS code E82018
3.1 km
BURVILL HOUSE SURGERY
52-54 DELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 8HP
ODS code E82023
3.4 km
BRIDGE COTTAGE SURGERY
41 HIGH STREET, WELWYN, AL6 9EF
ODS code E82019
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Stanborough Close
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
- 0.1 miles
Stanborough Close
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
- 0.2 miles
Stanborough Green
BCT · Stanborough
- 0.2 miles
Stanborough Green
BCT · Stanborough
- 0.2 miles
Longcroft Green
BCT · Welwyn Garden City
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Welwyn Hatfield 006A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,608 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
2,453 published events cover 12 months, averaging 204.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 838 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.