Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 5 secondary schools. Hitchin Boys' School is the nearest published school at 334 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG5 1BZ
Hitchin Bearton · North Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hitchin Bearton
- Local authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin
- Postcode district
- SG5
- Postcode sector
- SG5 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG5 1BZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2009
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG5
- Postcode sector
- SG5 1
- Latitude
- 51.949281
- Longitude
- -0.274714
- British National Grid easting
- 518,670
- British National Grid northing
- 229,270
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- North Hertfordshire · E07000099
- Electoral ward
- Hitchin Bearton · E05015762
- Parish or community
- E43000232
- Westminster constituency
- Hitchin · E14001289
- Output area
- E00169662
- Lower layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 010A · E01023601
- Middle layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 010 · E02004918
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 5
- 334 m
Hitchin Boys' School
Academy converter
- 395 m
Hitchin Girls' School
Academy converter
- 415 m
Highbury Infant School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,982
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 700
- Anti social behaviour 349
- Shoplifting 176
- Other theft 174
- Criminal damage and arson 136
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG5 1 residents
- 7,620
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
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
THE PORTMILL SURGERY
114 QUEEN STREET, HITCHIN, SG4 9TH
ODS code E82044
51 m
HERTFORDSHIRE SPECIAL ALLOCATION SCHEME
THE TREATMENT CENTRE, PORTMILL HOUSE, PORTMILL LANE, HITCHIN, SG5 1DJ
ODS code Y06095
83 m
BANCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
BANCROFT COURT, 30-35 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LH
ODS code E82053
297 m
REGAL CHAMBERS SURGERY
50 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LL
ODS code E82075
404 m
THE NEVELLS ROAD SURGERY
NEVELLS ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 4TS
ODS code E82008
4.7 km
THE GARDEN CITY SURGERY
59 STATION ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 3BJ
ODS code E82661
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hermitage Road
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
Hermitage Road
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
St Mary's Square
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
St Mary's Square
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
St Mary's Square
BCT · Hitchin
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Hertfordshire 010A, 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
24,977 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
1,982 published events cover 12 months, averaging 165.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 700 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.