Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Wroxham School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
AL9 7SY
Welham Green and Hatfield South · Welwyn Hatfield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Postcode district
- AL9
- Postcode sector
- AL9 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- AL9 7SY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 2005
- Postcode area
- AL
- Postcode district
- AL9
- Postcode sector
- AL9 7
- Latitude
- 51.713050
- Longitude
- -0.213803
- British National Grid easting
- 523,500
- British National Grid northing
- 203,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Welwyn Hatfield · E07000241
- Electoral ward
- Welham Green and Hatfield South · E05011071
- Parish or community
- E04012223
- Westminster constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield · E14001573
- Output area
- E00121677
- Lower layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 017C · E01035608
- Middle layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 017 · E02007092
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
- 30
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.5 km
The Wroxham School
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Brookmans Park Primary School
Foundation school
- 1.8 km
Cranborne Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 285
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 101
- Anti social behaviour 47
- Vehicle crime 23
- Other theft 22
- Public order 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- AL9 7 residents
- 7,135
Age bands in AL9 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
1,104 residents
875 residents
1,612 residents
2,105 residents
1,577 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
POTTERELLS MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION ROAD, WELHAM GREEN, NORTH MYMMS, HATFIELD, AL9 7SN
ODS code E82058
1.6 km
PARKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE WALK, POTTERS BAR, EN6 1QH
ODS code E82027
3.1 km
ANNANDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82098
3.2 km
HIGHVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82078
3.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Brookmans Park Rail Station
RLY · Brookmans Park
- 0.7 miles
Brookmans Park Rail Station
RSE · Brookmans Park
- 0.7 miles
Cranborne Industrial Estate
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.7 miles
Cranbourne Avenue
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.7 miles
Brookmans Park Railway Station
BCT · Brookmans Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Welwyn Hatfield 017C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,174 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
285 published events cover 12 months, averaging 23.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 101 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.