Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 4 secondary schools. The Ryde School is the nearest published school at 365 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL9 5JH
Hatfield Central · Welwyn Hatfield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hatfield Central
- Local authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Postcode district
- AL9
- Postcode sector
- AL9 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL9 5JH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2001
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL9
- Postcode sector
- AL9 5
- Latitude
- 51.770720
- Longitude
- -0.216295
- British National Grid easting
- 523,171
- British National Grid northing
- 209,509
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Welwyn Hatfield · E07000241
- Electoral ward
- Hatfield Central · E05011061
- Parish or community
- E04004819
- Westminster constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield · E14001573
- Output area
- E00121515
- Lower layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 010B · E01023930
- Middle layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 010 · E02004989
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 AL9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 4
- 365 m
The Ryde School
Community school
- 641 m
Countess Anne Church of England School
Academy converter
- 663 m
Birchwood Avenue Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,394
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 933
- Anti social behaviour 306
- Public order 182
- Criminal damage and arson 181
- Shoplifting 173
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL9 5 residents
- 2,816
Age bands in AL9 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.7%
528 residents
271 residents
1,009 residents
815 residents
605 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
WRAFTON HOUSE SURGERY
9-11 WELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 0BS
ODS code E82002
891 m
LISTER HOUSE SURGERY
THE COMMON, HATFIELD, AL10 0NL
ODS code E82018
1.0 km
BURVILL HOUSE SURGERY
52-54 DELLFIELD ROAD, HATFIELD, AL10 8HP
ODS code E82023
1.3 km
SPRING HOUSE HEALTH
SPRING HOUSE SITE, ASCOTS LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 4HL
ODS code Y02639
2.2 km
THE GARDEN CITY PRACTICE
BIRDCROFT ROAD, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL8 6EH
ODS code E82041
3.0 km
HALL GROVE GROUP PRACTICE
4 HALL GROVE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 4PL
ODS code E82062
3.2 km
PEARTREE LANE SURGERY
110 PEARTREE LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AL7 3UJ
ODS code E82040
3.2 km
POTTERELLS MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION ROAD, WELHAM GREEN, NORTH MYMMS, HATFIELD, AL9 7SN
ODS code E82058
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Fawn Court
BCT · Hatfield
- 0.2 miles
Fawn Court
BCT · Hatfield
- 0.2 miles
Pleasant Rise
BCT · Hatfield
- 0.2 miles
Hillfield
BCT · Birchwood
- 0.2 miles
The Ryde
BCT · Hatfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Welwyn Hatfield 010B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,251 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
2,394 published events cover 12 months, averaging 199.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 933 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.