Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 6 secondary schools. Whitehill Junior School is the nearest published school at 604 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG4 9EP
Hitchin Priory · North Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Hitchin
- Ward
- Hitchin Priory
- Local authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin
- Postcode district
- SG4
- Postcode sector
- SG4 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG4 9EP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG4
- Postcode sector
- SG4 9
- Latitude
- 51.937608
- Longitude
- -0.272807
- British National Grid easting
- 518,832
- British National Grid northing
- 227,975
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- North Hertfordshire · E07000099
- Electoral ward
- Hitchin Priory · E05015765
- Parish or community
- E43000232
- Westminster constituency
- Hitchin · E14001289
- Output area
- E00119937
- Lower layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 012D · E01023614
- Middle layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 012 · E02004920
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
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Badgers End, Bramshott Close, Hitchin, SG4 9EP | 1 February 2013 | £456,000 |
| 1, Bramshott Close, Hitchin, SG4 9EP | 25 February 2011 | £517,000 |
| 1, Bramshott Close, Hitchin, SG4 9EP | 28 March 2003 | £380,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 6
- 604 m
Whitehill Junior School
Community school
- 917 m
Highbury Infant School and Nursery
Community school
- 1.0 km
Kingshott School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,030
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 332
- Anti social behaviour 169
- Shoplifting 139
- Other theft 106
- Public order 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- SG4 9 residents
- 9,300
7 female, 6 male
Age bands in SG4 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.7%
1,632 residents
766 residents
2,284 residents
2,356 residents
1,723 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SG4 9 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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.
GP practices
5
within 5 km
HERTFORDSHIRE SPECIAL ALLOCATION SCHEME
THE TREATMENT CENTRE, PORTMILL HOUSE, PORTMILL LANE, HITCHIN, SG5 1DJ
ODS code Y06095
1.2 km
THE PORTMILL SURGERY
114 QUEEN STREET, HITCHIN, SG4 9TH
ODS code E82044
1.3 km
BANCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
BANCROFT COURT, 30-35 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LH
ODS code E82053
1.6 km
REGAL CHAMBERS SURGERY
50 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LL
ODS code E82075
1.7 km
THE SYMONDS GREEN HEALTH CENTRE
FILEY CLOSE, STEVENAGE, SG1 2JW
ODS code E82111
4.5 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Newlands Lane
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
New England Close
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
New England Close
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
Lister Avenue
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
Priory Way
BCT · Hitchin
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Hertfordshire 012D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,635 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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.
Flood risk
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.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,030 published events cover 12 months, averaging 85.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 332 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.