Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 5 secondary schools. Hitchin Boys' School is the nearest published school at 234 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG5 1HL
Hitchin Priory · North Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 1HL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 August 2024
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG5
- Postcode sector
- SG5 1
- Latitude
- 51.949779
- Longitude
- -0.281039
- British National Grid easting
- 518,234
- British National Grid northing
- 229,315
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
- E00119940
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 5
- 234 m
Hitchin Boys' School
Academy converter
- 389 m
Samuel Lucas Junior Mixed and Infant School
Community school
- 447 m
Wilshere-Dacre Junior Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,892
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 682
- Anti social behaviour 346
- Other theft 172
- Shoplifting 171
- Criminal damage and arson 130
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
BANCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
BANCROFT COURT, 30-35 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LH
ODS code E82053
339 m
HERTFORDSHIRE SPECIAL ALLOCATION SCHEME
THE TREATMENT CENTRE, PORTMILL HOUSE, PORTMILL LANE, HITCHIN, SG5 1DJ
ODS code Y06095
401 m
THE PORTMILL SURGERY
114 QUEEN STREET, HITCHIN, SG4 9TH
ODS code E82044
449 m
REGAL CHAMBERS SURGERY
50 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LL
ODS code E82075
490 m
THE NEVELLS ROAD SURGERY
NEVELLS ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 4TS
ODS code E82008
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Grammar School Walk
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
Waitrose
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
West Hill
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.1 miles
Bancroft
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.2 miles
Bancroft
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
- 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
1,892 published events cover 12 months, averaging 157.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 682 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.