Hitchin Walsworth · North Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcode| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Benchley Hill, Hitchin, SG4 0NJ | 19 July 2024 | £362,500 |
| 9, Benchley Hill, Hitchin, SG4 0NJ | 30 September 2022 | £300,000 |
| 5, Benchley Hill, Hitchin, SG4 0NJ | 7 May 2021 | £290,000 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
Purwell Primary School
Community school
Mary Exton Primary School
Community school
Highover Junior Mixed and Infant School
Community school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
23 female, 13 male
1,837 residents
916 residents
2,988 residents
2,459 residents
1,370 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SG4 0 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
8
within 5 km
114 QUEEN STREET, HITCHIN, SG4 9TH
ODS code E82044
1.7 km
50 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LL
ODS code E82075
1.7 km
THE TREATMENT CENTRE, PORTMILL HOUSE, PORTMILL LANE, HITCHIN, SG5 1DJ
ODS code Y06095
1.8 km
BANCROFT COURT, 30-35 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LH
ODS code E82053
1.8 km
NEVELLS ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 4TS
ODS code E82008
3.4 km
59 STATION ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 3BJ
ODS code E82661
3.5 km
232-240 NEVELLS ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 4UB
ODS code E82082
3.7 km
FILEY CLOSE, STEVENAGE, SG1 2JW
ODS code E82111
4.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Chaucer Way
BCT · Purwell
Chaucer Way
BCT · Purwell
Meadows
BCT · Purwell
Meadows
BCT · Purwell
Fairfield Way
BCT · Purwell
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Hertfordshire 011D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,110 of 33,755
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.
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
The five-year median is £331,250 from 2 recorded sales in SG4 0NJ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for North Hertfordshire is £422,616 in June 2026, up 7.8% year on year.
38 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 6 secondary schools. Purwell Primary School is the nearest published school at 230 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
857 published events cover 12 months, averaging 71.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 311 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.