Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 4 secondary schools. Cuffley School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EN6 4QY
Northaw and Cuffley · Welwyn Hatfield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Potters Bar
- Ward
- Northaw and Cuffley
- Local authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Hertsmere
- Postcode district
- EN6
- Postcode sector
- EN6 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EN6 4QY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- EN
- Postcode district
- EN6
- Postcode sector
- EN6 4
- Latitude
- 51.699174
- Longitude
- -0.126610
- British National Grid easting
- 529,563
- British National Grid northing
- 201,708
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Welwyn Hatfield · E07000241
- Electoral ward
- Northaw and Cuffley · E05011067
- Parish or community
- E04004820
- Westminster constituency
- Hertsmere · E14001284
- Output area
- E00121601
- Lower layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 016A · E01023947
- Middle layer super output area
- Welwyn Hatfield 016 · E02004995
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hill View Farm, Northaw Road West, Northaw, Potters Bar, EN6 4QY | 25 September 1996 | £360,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.1 km
Cuffley School
Foundation school
- 1.7 km
Northaw Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.6 km
Woodside Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 142
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 38
- Anti social behaviour 24
- Vehicle crime 22
- Burglary 14
- Other theft 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- EN6 4 residents
- 5,787
1 female, 1 male
Age bands in EN6 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.1%
857 residents
607 residents
1,081 residents
1,682 residents
1,413 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider EN6 4 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
4
within 5 km
CUFFLEY AND GOFFS OAK MEDICAL PRACTICE
MAYNARD PLACE, CUFFLEY, POTTERS BAR, EN6 4JA
ODS code E82081
1.4 km
ANNANDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82098
3.3 km
HIGHVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82078
3.3 km
PARKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE WALK, POTTERS BAR, EN6 1QH
ODS code E82027
3.7 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Cattlegate Road
BCT · Cuffley
- 0.1 miles
Cattlegate Road
BCT · Cuffley
- 0.3 miles
Northaw Road West
BCT · Northaw
- 0.3 miles
Northaw Road West
BCT · Northaw
- 0.4 miles
Sports Ground
BCT · Cuffley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Welwyn Hatfield 016A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,513 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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.
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
142 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 38 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.