Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 4 secondary schools. Gothic Mede Academy is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG15 6WA
Arlesey & Fairfield · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Arlesey & Fairfield
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin
- Postcode district
- SG15
- Postcode sector
- SG15 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG15 6WA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- 1 October 2000
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG15
- Postcode sector
- SG15 6
- Latitude
- 52.023152
- Longitude
- -0.265604
- British National Grid easting
- 519,100
- British National Grid northing
- 237,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Arlesey & Fairfield · E05014395
- Parish or community
- E04011925
- Westminster constituency
- Hitchin · E14001289
- Output area
- E00087765
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 010B · E01017377
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 010 · E02003608
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 SG15
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.3 km
Gothic Mede Academy
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- 1.4 km
Etonbury Academy
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- 1.5 km
Henlow Church of England Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 266
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 82
- Anti social behaviour 75
- Other theft 25
- Vehicle crime 23
- Burglary 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG15 6 residents
- 6,026
Age bands in SG15 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.6%
1,103 residents
566 residents
1,770 residents
1,706 residents
883 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
LARKSFIELD AND ARLESEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
LARKSFIELD & ARLESEY SURGERY, ARLESEY ROAD, STOTFOLD, HITCHIN, SG5 4HB
ODS code E81022
2.2 km
LOWER STONDON SURGERY
109 STATION ROAD, LOWER STONDON, HENLOW, SG16 6JJ
ODS code E81061
3.7 km
SHEFFORD HEALTH CENTRE
ROBERT LUCAS DRIVE, SHEFFORD, SG17 5FS
ODS code E81033
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Glebe Avenue
BCT · Arlesey
- 0.1 miles
Glebe Avenue
BCT · Arlesey
- 0.1 miles
The Old Oak
BCT · Arlesey
- 0.2 miles
The Old Oak
BCT · Arlesey
- 0.2 miles
Arlesey Railway Station
BCT · Arlesey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 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
21,445 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
266 published events cover 12 months, averaging 22.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 82 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.