Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. Abel Smith School is the nearest published school at 290 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG14 1EL
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
- SG14
- Postcode sector
- SG14 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG14 1EL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG14
- Postcode sector
- SG14 1
- Latitude
- 51.795146
- Longitude
- -0.077357
- British National Grid easting
- 532,685
- British National Grid northing
- 212,469
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
- E00119256
- Lower layer super output area
- East Hertfordshire 017C · E01023477
- 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 SG14
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 4
- 290 m
Abel Smith School
Community school
- 297 m
Richard Hale School
Academy converter
- 607 m
Simon Balle All-Through School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,715
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 565
- Anti social behaviour 291
- Shoplifting 250
- Other theft 108
- Criminal damage and arson 104
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG14 1 residents
- 3,191
Age bands in SG14 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 36.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.2%
427 residents
274 residents
1,209 residents
824 residents
566 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
257 m
HANSCOMBE HOUSE SURGERY
HANSCOME HOUSE SURGERY, 52A ST. ANDREW STREET, HERTFORD, SG14 1JA
ODS code E82007
384 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
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Fore Street
BCT · Hertford
- 0.1 miles
Fore Street
BCT · Hertford
- 0.1 miles
Market Street
BCT · Hertford
- 0.1 miles
Fore Street
BCT · Hertford
- 0.1 miles
Fore Street
BCT · Hertford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Hertfordshire 017C, 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
30,956 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
1,715 published events cover 12 months, averaging 142.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 565 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.