Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 4 secondary schools. Richard Hale School is the nearest published school at 188 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG13 8WB
Hertford Castle · East Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 8WB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- 1 October 2003
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG13
- Postcode sector
- SG13 8
- Latitude
- 51.792571
- Longitude
- -0.074943
- British National Grid easting
- 532,859
- British National Grid northing
- 212,187
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
- E00190258
- Lower layer super output area
- East Hertfordshire 017B · E01023476
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 4
- 188 m
Richard Hale School
Academy converter
- 322 m
Abel Smith School
Community school
- 406 m
Simon Balle All-Through School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,630
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 529
- Anti social behaviour 273
- Shoplifting 250
- Other theft 106
- Criminal damage and arson 99
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG13 8 residents
- 5,992
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
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
LEA WHARF MEDICAL
17 BIRCHERLEY GREEN, HERTFORD, SG14 1BN
ODS code E82024
563 m
HANSCOMBE HOUSE SURGERY
HANSCOME HOUSE SURGERY, 52A ST. ANDREW STREET, HERTFORD, SG14 1JA
ODS code E82007
687 m
NEW RIVER HEALTH
ST MARY'S COURTYARD, CHURCH STREET, WARE, SG12 9EF
ODS code E82102
3.6 km
DOLPHIN HOUSE SURGERY
6-7 EAST STREET, WARE, SG12 9HJ
ODS code E82092
3.7 km
HAILEY VIEW SURGERY
39 CHRISTIAN CLOSE, HODDESDON, EN11 9FF
ODS code E82088
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Richard Hale School
BCT · Hertford
- 0.2 miles
Richard Hale School
BCT · Hertford
- 0.3 miles
Park Road
BCT · Hertford
- 0.3 miles
Fore Street
BCT · Hertford
- 0.3 miles
Fore Street
BCT · Hertford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Hertfordshire 017B, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,111 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,630 published events cover 12 months, averaging 135.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 529 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.