Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Lochinver House School is the nearest published school at 390 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EN6 1DX
Brookmans Park and Little Heath · Welwyn Hatfield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Postcode district
- EN6
- Postcode sector
- EN6 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EN6 1DX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EN
- Postcode district
- EN6
- Postcode sector
- EN6 1
- Latitude
- 51.708606
- Longitude
- -0.180340
- British National Grid easting
- 525,824
- British National Grid northing
- 202,663
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
- E00121411
- Lower layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 015D · E01023911
- 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 EN6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 390 m
Lochinver House School
Other independent school
- 472 m
Little Heath Primary School
Foundation school
- 655 m
Gracewood Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 718
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 189
- Anti social behaviour 138
- Shoplifting 88
- Other theft 64
- Vehicle crime 57
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
1.2 km
HIGHVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82078
1.2 km
PARKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE WALK, POTTERS BAR, EN6 1QH
ODS code E82027
1.5 km
POTTERELLS MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION ROAD, WELHAM GREEN, NORTH MYMMS, HATFIELD, AL9 7SN
ODS code E82058
2.8 km
CUFFLEY AND GOFFS OAK MEDICAL PRACTICE
MAYNARD PLACE, CUFFLEY, POTTERS BAR, EN6 4JA
ODS code E82081
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Osborne Road
BCT · Little Heath
- 0.1 miles
Osborne Road
BCT · Little Heath
- 0.2 miles
Swanley Crescent
BCT · Swanley Bar
- 0.2 miles
Swanley Crescent
BCT · Swanley Bar
- 0.3 miles
Swanley Bar Lane
BCT · Swanley Bar
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Welwyn Hatfield 015D, 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
29,373 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
718 published events cover 12 months, averaging 59.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 189 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.