Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 4 secondary schools. Oakmere Primary School is the nearest published school at 357 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EN6 5AN
Potters Bar Oakmere · Hertsmere · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Potters Bar Oakmere
- Local authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere
- Postcode district
- EN6
- Postcode sector
- EN6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- EN6 5AN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- EN
- Postcode district
- EN6
- Postcode sector
- EN6 5
- Latitude
- 51.694682
- Longitude
- -0.170220
- British National Grid easting
- 526,562
- British National Grid northing
- 201,132
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Hertsmere · E07000098
- Electoral ward
- Potters Bar Oakmere · E05012190
- Parish or community
- E43000288
- Westminster constituency
- Hertsmere · E14001284
- Output area
- E00119734
- Lower layer super output area
- Hertsmere 003B · E01023572
- Middle layer super output area
- Hertsmere 003 · E02004898
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
- 32
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 4
- 357 m
Oakmere Primary School
Community school
- 637 m
Stormont School
Other independent school
- 684 m
Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,609
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 503
- Anti social behaviour 240
- Other theft 215
- Shoplifting 187
- Criminal damage and arson 98
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- EN6 5 residents
- 5,662
Age bands in EN6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.9%
1,030 residents
643 residents
1,458 residents
1,555 residents
1,239 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
510 m
HIGHVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82078
510 m
PARKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE WALK, POTTERS BAR, EN6 1QH
ODS code E82027
648 m
CUFFLEY AND GOFFS OAK MEDICAL PRACTICE
MAYNARD PLACE, CUFFLEY, POTTERS BAR, EN6 4JA
ODS code E82081
4.2 km
POTTERELLS MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION ROAD, WELHAM GREEN, NORTH MYMMS, HATFIELD, AL9 7SN
ODS code E82058
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Tempest Avenue
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.2 miles
Bowmans Close
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.2 miles
Carpenter Way
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.2 miles
Stamford Close
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.2 miles
Coningsby Drive
BCT · Potters Bar
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hertsmere 003B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,451 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
1,609 published events cover 12 months, averaging 134.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 503 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.