Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 4 secondary schools. Richard Hale School is the nearest published school at 497 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG13 8BY
Hertford Castle · East Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Hertford
- Ward
- Hertford Castle
- Local authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford
- Postcode district
- SG13
- Postcode sector
- SG13 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG13 8BY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG13
- Postcode sector
- SG13 8
- Latitude
- 51.791823
- Longitude
- -0.084778
- British National Grid easting
- 532,183
- British National Grid northing
- 212,086
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Hertfordshire · E07000242
- Electoral ward
- Hertford Castle · E05015365
- Parish or community
- E04013543
- Westminster constituency
- Hertford and Stortford · E14001283
- Output area
- E00119237
- Lower layer super output area
- East Hertfordshire 017A · E01023475
- Middle layer super output area
- East Hertfordshire 017 · E02004894
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 SG13
Property
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 14, Leahoe Gardens, Hertford, SG13 8BY | 13 July 2018 | £749,000 |
| 20, Leahoe Gardens, Hertford, SG13 8BY | 31 January 2018 | £805,000 |
| 18, Leahoe Gardens, Hertford, SG13 8BY | 31 May 2017 | £880,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 4
- 497 m
Richard Hale School
Academy converter
- 558 m
Morgans Primary School & Nursery
Community school
- 801 m
Mill Mead Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,692
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 564
- Anti social behaviour 279
- Shoplifting 275
- Criminal damage and arson 105
- Other theft 102
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- SG13 8 residents
- 5,992
13 female, 4 male
Age bands in SG13 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.7%
1,116 residents
560 residents
1,385 residents
1,802 residents
1,267 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SG13 8 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
4
within 5 km
HANSCOMBE HOUSE SURGERY
HANSCOME HOUSE SURGERY, 52A ST. ANDREW STREET, HERTFORD, SG14 1JA
ODS code E82007
572 m
LEA WHARF MEDICAL
17 BIRCHERLEY GREEN, HERTFORD, SG14 1BN
ODS code E82024
820 m
NEW RIVER HEALTH
ST MARY'S COURTYARD, CHURCH STREET, WARE, SG12 9EF
ODS code E82102
4.2 km
DOLPHIN HOUSE SURGERY
6-7 EAST STREET, WARE, SG12 9HJ
ODS code E82092
4.3 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
County Hall Rear Car Park
BCT · Hertford
- 0.2 miles
County Hall
BCT · Hertford
- 0.2 miles
County Hall
BCT · Hertford
- 0.3 miles
Richard Hale School
BCT · Hertford
- 0.3 miles
Richard Hale School
BCT · Hertford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Hertfordshire 017A, 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
14,369 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,692 published events cover 12 months, averaging 141 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 564 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.