Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. East Hall School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG4 8DP
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG4 8DP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 March 2001
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG4
- Postcode sector
- SG4 8
- Latitude
- 51.892449
- Longitude
- -0.250719
- British National Grid easting
- 520,471
- British National Grid northing
- 222,989
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
- E04004784
- Westminster constituency
- Hitchin · E14001289
- Output area
- E00119972
- Lower layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 014C · E01023623
- 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
- 24
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.1 km
East Hall School
Other independent special school
- 3.0 km
St Paul's Walden Primary School
Community school
- 3.0 km
Woolenwick Infant and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 20
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Burglary 2
- Public order 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG4 8 residents
- 6,657
Age bands in SG4 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.2%
1,179 residents
614 residents
1,424 residents
2,047 residents
1,589 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
WHITWELL SURGERY
60 HIGH STREET, WHITWELL, HITCHIN, SG4 8AG
ODS code E82626
2.7 km
THE SYMONDS GREEN HEALTH CENTRE
FILEY CLOSE, STEVENAGE, SG1 2JW
ODS code E82111
3.0 km
KING GEORGE & MANOR HOUSE SURGERIES
KING GEORGE SURGERY(MAIN), 135 HIGH STREET, STEVENAGE, SG1 3HT
ODS code E82086
3.5 km
STANMORE MEDICAL GROUP
5 STANMORE ROAD, STEVENAGE, SG1 3QA
ODS code E82005
3.9 km
BEDWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
SINFIELD CL, BEDWELL CRES, STEVENAGE, SG1 1LQ
ODS code E82093
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Stagenhoe Lodges
BCT · St Pauls Walden
- 0.6 miles
Stagenhoe Lodges
BCT · St Pauls Walden
- 0.8 miles
Village Street
BCT · Langley
- 0.8 miles
Village Street
BCT · Langley
- 0.8 miles
Strathmore Arms PH
BCT · St Pauls Walden
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Hertfordshire 014C, 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
18,059 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
20 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.