Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 5 secondary schools. Hitchin Boys' School is the nearest published school at 309 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG5 1AT
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
- SG5
- Postcode sector
- SG5 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG5 1AT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG5
- Postcode sector
- SG5 1
- Latitude
- 51.948405
- Longitude
- -0.278124
- British National Grid easting
- 518,438
- British National Grid northing
- 229,167
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
- E00169665
- Lower layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 012F · E01023616
- 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 SG5
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 13, High Street, Hitchin, SG5 1AT | 15 September 2006 | £235,000 |
| 20b, High Street, Hitchin, SG5 1AT | 25 March 2003 | £415,000 |
| 13, High Street, Hitchin, SG5 1AT | 30 August 2002 | £150,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 5
- 309 m
Hitchin Boys' School
Academy converter
- 487 m
Highbury Infant School and Nursery
Community school
- 602 m
Hitchin Girls' School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,874
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 659
- Anti social behaviour 338
- Other theft 172
- Shoplifting 171
- Criminal damage and arson 125
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- SG5 1 residents
- 7,620
7 female, 9 male
Age bands in SG5 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.6%
1,384 residents
663 residents
2,817 residents
2,002 residents
1,268 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SG5 1 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
185 m
THE PORTMILL SURGERY
114 QUEEN STREET, HITCHIN, SG4 9TH
ODS code E82044
241 m
BANCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
BANCROFT COURT, 30-35 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LH
ODS code E82053
357 m
REGAL CHAMBERS SURGERY
50 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LL
ODS code E82075
516 m
THE NEVELLS ROAD SURGERY
NEVELLS ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 4TS
ODS code E82008
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bancroft
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
Bancroft
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
Bancroft
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
Hermitage Road
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
Hermitage Road
BCT · Hitchin
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Hertfordshire 012F, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,792 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 5
- Medium risk addresses
- 3
- Low risk addresses
- 15
- 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
1,874 published events cover 12 months, averaging 156.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 659 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.