Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Hertford Prep is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG13 8XH
Hertford Rural · East Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hertford Rural
- Local authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire
- Postcode district
- SG13
- Postcode sector
- SG13 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG13 8XH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG13
- Postcode sector
- SG13 8
- Latitude
- 51.778657
- Longitude
- -0.093005
- British National Grid easting
- 531,654
- British National Grid northing
- 210,607
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Hertfordshire · E07000242
- Electoral ward
- Hertford Rural · E05015368
- Parish or community
- E04004717
- Westminster constituency
- North East Hertfordshire · E14001393
- Output area
- E00119290
- Lower layer super output area
- East Hertfordshire 010B · E01023486
- Middle layer super output area
- East Hertfordshire 010 · E02004887
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
- 21
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.3 km
Hertford Prep
Other independent school
- 1.4 km
Morgans Primary School & Nursery
Community school
- 1.9 km
Richard Hale School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 115
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 42
- Anti social behaviour 18
- Other theft 14
- Vehicle crime 10
- Criminal damage and arson 10
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
HANSCOMBE HOUSE SURGERY
HANSCOME HOUSE SURGERY, 52A ST. ANDREW STREET, HERTFORD, SG14 1JA
ODS code E82007
2.1 km
LEA WHARF MEDICAL
17 BIRCHERLEY GREEN, HERTFORD, SG14 1BN
ODS code E82024
2.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Bayfordbury
BCT · Hertford
- 0.3 miles
Bayfordbury
BCT · Hertford
- 0.5 miles
Purkiss Road
BCT · Horns Mill
- 0.5 miles
The Dell
BCT · Horns Mill
- 0.5 miles
Bayford Lane
BCT · Hertford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Hertfordshire 010B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,199 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
115 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 42 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.