Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 4 secondary schools. Stormont School is the nearest published school at 132 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
EN6 5JF
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 5JF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- EN
- Postcode district
- EN6
- Postcode sector
- EN6 5
- Latitude
- 51.699823
- Longitude
- -0.172357
- British National Grid easting
- 526,400
- British National Grid northing
- 201,700
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
- E00119726
- Lower layer super output area
- Hertsmere 003A · E01023571
- 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
- 29
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 4
- 132 m
Stormont School
Other independent school
- 633 m
Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School
Community school
- 708 m
Little Heath Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,682
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 528
- Anti social behaviour 252
- Other theft 217
- Shoplifting 188
- Criminal damage and arson 108
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
194 m
HIGHVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5DA
ODS code E82078
194 m
PARKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE WALK, POTTERS BAR, EN6 1QH
ODS code E82027
722 m
POTTERELLS MEDICAL CENTRE
STATION ROAD, WELHAM GREEN, NORTH MYMMS, HATFIELD, AL9 7SN
ODS code E82058
3.9 km
CUFFLEY AND GOFFS OAK MEDICAL PRACTICE
MAYNARD PLACE, CUFFLEY, POTTERS BAR, EN6 4JA
ODS code E82081
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Thaynesfield
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.1 miles
Quakers Lane
BCT · Little Heath
- 0.1 miles
Thaynesfield
BCT · Potters Bar
- 0.2 miles
Quakers Lane
BCT · Little Heath
- 0.2 miles
Bus Garage
BCT · Potters Bar
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hertsmere 003A, 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
26,259 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,682 published events cover 12 months, averaging 140.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 528 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.