Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 5 secondary schools. Chancellor's School is the nearest published school at 386 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL9 6PU
Brookmans Park and Little Heath · Welwyn Hatfield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Postcode district
- AL9
- Postcode sector
- AL9 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL9 6PU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL9
- Postcode sector
- AL9 6
- Latitude
- 51.725997
- Longitude
- -0.178542
- British National Grid easting
- 525,900
- British National Grid northing
- 204,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Welwyn Hatfield · E07000241
- Electoral ward
- Brookmans Park and Little Heath · E05011058
- Parish or community
- E04012223
- Westminster constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield · E14001573
- Output area
- E00121400
- Lower layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 015C · E01023910
- Middle layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 015 · E02004994
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
- 32
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 5
- 386 m
Chancellor's School
Academy converter
- 929 m
Rhodes Wood Hospital School
Other independent special school
- 1.5 km
Queenswood School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 107
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 53
- Burglary 13
- Anti social behaviour 10
- Other crime 8
- Criminal damage and arson 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL9 6 residents
- 1,755
Age bands in AL9 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.5%
264 residents
209 residents
282 residents
461 residents
334 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
POTTERELLS MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION ROAD, WELHAM GREEN, NORTH MYMMS, HATFIELD, AL9 7SN
ODS code E82058
2.1 km
ANNANDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82098
3.1 km
HIGHVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82078
3.1 km
PARKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE WALK, POTTERS BAR, EN6 1QH
ODS code E82027
3.4 km
CUFFLEY AND GOFFS OAK MEDICAL PRACTICE
MAYNARD PLACE, CUFFLEY, POTTERS BAR, EN6 4JA
ODS code E82081
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Kentish Lane
BCT · Brookmans Park
- 0.2 miles
Chancellor's School
BCT · Brookmans Park
- 0.2 miles
Kentish Lane
BCT · Brookmans Park
- 0.3 miles
Bell Lane
BCT · Bell Bar
- 0.4 miles
Bell Lane
BCT · Bell Bar
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Welwyn Hatfield 015C, 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
27,070 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
107 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 53 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.