Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 2 secondary schools. Widford School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG12 7SX
Ware Rural · East Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ware Rural
- Local authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford
- Postcode district
- SG12
- Postcode sector
- SG12 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG12 7SX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG12
- Postcode sector
- SG12 7
- Latitude
- 51.826141
- Longitude
- 0.021409
- British National Grid easting
- 539,400
- British National Grid northing
- 216,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Hertfordshire · E07000242
- Electoral ward
- Ware Rural · E05015376
- Parish or community
- E04004757
- Westminster constituency
- Hertford and Stortford · E14001283
- Output area
- E00119324
- Lower layer super output area
- East Hertfordshire 009A · E01023491
- Middle layer super output area
- East Hertfordshire 009 · E02004886
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 SG12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.5 km
Widford School
Community school
- 2.6 km
Priors Wood Primary School
Community school
- 3.1 km
Hunsdon Junior Mixed and Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 33
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 17
- Burglary 4
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Other crime 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG12 7 residents
- 9,509
Age bands in SG12 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.2%
1,779 residents
891 residents
2,448 residents
2,502 residents
1,586 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
DOLPHIN HOUSE SURGERY
6-7 EAST STREET, WARE, SG12 9HJ
ODS code E82092
3.9 km
NEW RIVER HEALTH
ST MARY'S COURTYARD, CHURCH STREET, WARE, SG12 9EF
ODS code E82102
4.1 km
MUCH HADHAM HEALTH CENTRE
HADHAM CROSS, MUCH HADHAM, SG10 6DE
ODS code E82021
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Kingham Road
BCT · Babbs Green
- 0.1 miles
Kingham Road
BCT · Babbs Green
- 0.3 miles
White Horse PH
BCT · Wareside
- 0.3 miles
White Horse PH
BCT · Wareside
- 0.8 miles
Widford Lodge
BCT · Widford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Hertfordshire 009A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,034 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
33 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 17 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.