Schools
39 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 7 secondary schools. Dame Alice Owen's School is the nearest published school at 64 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EN6 2DX
Bentley Heath & The Royds · Hertsmere · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EN6 2DX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EN
- Postcode district
- EN6
- Postcode sector
- EN6 2
- Latitude
- 51.691347
- Longitude
- -0.207018
- British National Grid easting
- 524,028
- British National Grid northing
- 200,698
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Hertsmere · E07000098
- Electoral ward
- Bentley Heath & The Royds · E05012179
- Parish or community
- E43000288
- Westminster constituency
- Hertsmere · E14001284
- Output area
- E00119711
- Lower layer super output area
- Hertsmere 002C · E01023569
- Middle layer super output area
- Hertsmere 002 · E02004897
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
- 39
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 7
- 64 m
Dame Alice Owen's School
Academy converter
- 601 m
Pope Paul Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
The Wroxham School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 849
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 274
- Anti social behaviour 130
- Other theft 80
- Shoplifting 72
- Vehicle crime 71
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- EN6 2 residents
- 7,603
2 female, 0 male
Age bands in EN6 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.1%
1,109 residents
841 residents
1,693 residents
1,988 residents
1,691 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider EN6 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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
6
within 5 km
PARKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE WALK, POTTERS BAR, EN6 1QH
ODS code E82027
1.9 km
ANNANDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82098
2.4 km
HIGHVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82078
2.4 km
POTTERELLS MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION ROAD, WELHAM GREEN, NORTH MYMMS, HATFIELD, AL9 7SN
ODS code E82058
4.0 km
THE OLD COURT HOUSE SURGERY
27 WOOD STREET, BARNET, EN5 4BB
ODS code E83012
4.3 km
LONGROVE SURGERY
VALE DRIVE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, BARNET, EN5 2ED
ODS code E83017
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Dame Alice Owen's School
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.1 miles
Santers Lane
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.2 miles
Dugdale Hill Lane
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.2 miles
Dugdale Hill Lane
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.2 miles
Mimms Hall Road
BCT · Potters Bar
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hertsmere 002C, 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
27,790 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
849 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 274 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.