Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 2 secondary schools. Walkern Primary School is the nearest published school at 722 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG2 7GD
Aston, Datchworth & Walkern · East Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire
- Postcode district
- SG2
- Postcode sector
- SG2 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG2 7GD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG2
- Postcode sector
- SG2 7
- Latitude
- 51.921721
- Longitude
- -0.121344
- British National Grid easting
- 529,289
- British National Grid northing
- 226,466
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Hertfordshire · E07000242
- Electoral ward
- Aston, Datchworth & Walkern · E05015354
- Parish or community
- E04012292
- Westminster constituency
- North East Hertfordshire · E14001393
- Output area
- E00119410
- Lower layer super output area
- East Hertfordshire 019B · E01023509
- Middle layer super output area
- East Hertfordshire 019 · E02007093
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 SG2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 2
- 722 m
Walkern Primary School
Community school
- 1.7 km
Ardeley St Lawrence Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.7 km
Benington Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 63
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 32
- Criminal damage and arson 9
- Anti social behaviour 7
- Public order 5
- Other theft 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG2 7 residents
- 7,517
Age bands in SG2 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.7%
1,237 residents
728 residents
1,924 residents
2,396 residents
1,448 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
BEDWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
SINFIELD CL, BEDWELL CRES, STEVENAGE, SG1 1LQ
ODS code E82093
4.7 km
SHEPHALL HEALTH CENTRE
RIDLINS END, STEVENAGE, SG2 9QZ
ODS code E82056
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Cherry Tree Rise
BCT · Walkern
- 0.5 miles
Cherry Tree Rise
BCT · Walkern
- 0.6 miles
Maltings
BCT · Walkern
- 0.6 miles
Maltings
BCT · Walkern
- 0.7 miles
Moors Ley
BCT · Walkern
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Hertfordshire 019B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
20,050 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
63 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 32 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.