Schools
44 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 6 secondary schools. The Valley School is the nearest published school at 213 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG2 9AJ
Shephall · Stevenage · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG2 9AJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG2
- Postcode sector
- SG2 9
- Latitude
- 51.890654
- Longitude
- -0.184971
- British National Grid easting
- 525,000
- British National Grid northing
- 222,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Stevenage · E07000243
- Electoral ward
- Shephall · E05015633
- Parish or community
- E43000080
- Westminster constituency
- Stevenage · E14001516
- Output area
- E00120827
- Lower layer super output area
- Stevenage 010D · E01023794
- Middle layer super output area
- Stevenage 010 · E02004953
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
- 44
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 6
- 213 m
The Valley School
Community special school
- 373 m
Roebuck Academy
Academy converter
- 391 m
Peartree Way Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,119
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,277
- Anti social behaviour 436
- Shoplifting 335
- Public order 209
- Criminal damage and arson 205
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG2 9 residents
- 13,914
Age bands in SG2 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.4%
2,778 residents
1,470 residents
3,929 residents
3,758 residents
2,012 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
SHEPHALL HEALTH CENTRE
RIDLINS END, STEVENAGE, SG2 9QZ
ODS code E82056
1.2 km
BEDWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
SINFIELD CL, BEDWELL CRES, STEVENAGE, SG1 1LQ
ODS code E82093
1.5 km
KING GEORGE & MANOR HOUSE SURGERIES
KING GEORGE SURGERY(MAIN), 135 HIGH STREET, STEVENAGE, SG1 3HT
ODS code E82086
2.4 km
KNEBWORTH & MARYMEAD PRACTICE
7 ST MARTINS ROAD, KNEBWORTH, SG3 6ER
ODS code E82035
2.8 km
STANMORE MEDICAL GROUP
5 STANMORE ROAD, STEVENAGE, SG1 3QA
ODS code E82005
2.9 km
THE SYMONDS GREEN HEALTH CENTRE
FILEY CLOSE, STEVENAGE, SG1 2JW
ODS code E82111
3.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Peartree Centre
BCT · Shephall
- 0.2 miles
The Valley School
BCT · Broadwater
- 0.2 miles
Peartree Centre
BCT · Shephall
- 0.2 miles
The Valley School
BCT · Broadwater
- 0.2 miles
Shephall Green
BCT · Shephall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Stevenage 010D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,672 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
3,119 published events cover 12 months, averaging 259.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,277 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.