Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Gracewood Academy is the nearest published school at 261 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EN6 1AS
Potters Bar Parkfield · Hertsmere · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EN6 1AS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- EN
- Postcode district
- EN6
- Postcode sector
- EN6 1
- Latitude
- 51.700738
- Longitude
- -0.183232
- British National Grid easting
- 525,646
- British National Grid northing
- 201,783
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Hertsmere · E07000098
- Electoral ward
- Potters Bar Parkfield · E05012191
- Parish or community
- E43000288
- Westminster constituency
- Hertsmere · E14001284
- Output area
- E00119740
- Lower layer super output area
- Hertsmere 001E · E01023580
- Middle layer super output area
- Hertsmere 001 · E02004896
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 EN6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 261 m
Gracewood Academy
Academy converter
- 538 m
Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School
Community school
- 547 m
Lochinver House School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,838
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 559
- Anti social behaviour 281
- Other theft 232
- Shoplifting 188
- Vehicle crime 128
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EN6 1 residents
- 5,968
Age bands in EN6 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.2%
872 residents
624 residents
1,342 residents
1,566 residents
1,486 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
ANNANDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82098
669 m
HIGHVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82078
669 m
PARKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE WALK, POTTERS BAR, EN6 1QH
ODS code E82027
673 m
POTTERELLS MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION ROAD, WELHAM GREEN, NORTH MYMMS, HATFIELD, AL9 7SN
ODS code E82058
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
Mount Grace School
BCT · Little Heath
- 0.2 miles
Mount Grace School
BCT · Little Heath
- 0.2 miles
The Avenue
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.2 miles
The Avenue
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.3 miles
Byng Drive
BCT · Potters Bar
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hertsmere 001E, 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
25,895 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
1,838 published events cover 12 months, averaging 153.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 559 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.