Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 7 secondary schools. Whitehill Junior School is the nearest published school at 435 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG4 9HE
Hitchin Priory · North Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 9HE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG4
- Postcode sector
- SG4 9
- Latitude
- 51.937775
- Longitude
- -0.268902
- British National Grid easting
- 519,100
- British National Grid northing
- 228,000
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
- E04004779
- Westminster constituency
- Hitchin · E14001289
- Output area
- E00119941
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 7
- 435 m
Whitehill Junior School
Community school
- 742 m
Kingshott School
Other independent school
- 929 m
Highbury Infant School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,026
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 336
- Anti social behaviour 159
- Shoplifting 136
- Other theft 107
- Public order 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG4 9 residents
- 9,300
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
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
THE PORTMILL SURGERY
114 QUEEN STREET, HITCHIN, SG4 9TH
ODS code E82044
1.3 km
HERTFORDSHIRE SPECIAL ALLOCATION SCHEME
THE TREATMENT CENTRE, PORTMILL HOUSE, PORTMILL LANE, HITCHIN, SG5 1DJ
ODS code Y06095
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
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
New England Close
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
New England Close
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
Newlands Lane
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.2 miles
Blackhorse Lane
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.2 miles
Blackhorse Lane
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,026 published events cover 12 months, averaging 85.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 336 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.