Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Preston Primary School is the nearest published school at 96 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG4 7UP
Hitchwood · North Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hitchwood
- Local authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin
- Postcode district
- SG4
- Postcode sector
- SG4 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG4 7UP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1986
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG4
- Postcode sector
- SG4 7
- Latitude
- 51.906598
- Longitude
- -0.288999
- British National Grid easting
- 517,800
- British National Grid northing
- 224,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- North Hertfordshire · E07000099
- Electoral ward
- Hitchwood · E05015767
- Parish or community
- E04004790
- Westminster constituency
- Hitchin · E14001289
- Output area
- E00119983
- Lower layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 014E · E01023625
- Middle layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 014 · E02004922
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 SG4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 96 m
Preston Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.3 km
St Paul's Walden Primary School
Community school
- 3.3 km
St Ippolyts Church of England Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 10
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Public order 2
- Burglary 1
- Other crime 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG4 7 residents
- 4,832
Age bands in SG4 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.1%
912 residents
479 residents
1,117 residents
1,533 residents
1,144 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
WHITWELL SURGERY
60 HIGH STREET, WHITWELL, HITCHIN, SG4 8AG
ODS code E82626
3.5 km
THE SYMONDS GREEN HEALTH CENTRE
FILEY CLOSE, STEVENAGE, SG1 2JW
ODS code E82111
4.7 km
HERTFORDSHIRE SPECIAL ALLOCATION SCHEME
THE TREATMENT CENTRE, PORTMILL HOUSE, PORTMILL LANE, HITCHIN, SG5 1DJ
ODS code Y06095
4.8 km
THE PORTMILL SURGERY
114 QUEEN STREET, HITCHIN, SG4 9TH
ODS code E82044
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Red Lion PH
BCT · Preston
- 0.3 miles
Red Lion PH
BCT · Preston
- 0.8 miles
Leggatts Farm
BCT · Cox Green
- 0.8 miles
Leggatts Farm
BCT · Cox Green
- 1.0 miles
Wantsend Farm
BCT · Ley Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Hertfordshire 014E, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,896 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
10 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.