Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 5 secondary schools. Hitchin Boys' School is the nearest published school at 610 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG5 2EB
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 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG5 2EB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG5
- Postcode sector
- SG5 2
- Latitude
- 51.946056
- Longitude
- -0.281677
- British National Grid easting
- 518,200
- British National Grid northing
- 228,900
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
- E00189353
- 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
- 33
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 5
- 610 m
Hitchin Boys' School
Academy converter
- 616 m
Samuel Lucas Junior Mixed and Infant School
Community school
- 640 m
Highbury Infant School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,634
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 568
- Anti social behaviour 294
- Shoplifting 170
- Other theft 156
- Criminal damage and arson 105
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG5 2 residents
- 8,512
Age bands in SG5 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.5%
1,514 residents
734 residents
1,922 residents
2,255 residents
1,660 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
HERTFORDSHIRE SPECIAL ALLOCATION SCHEME
THE TREATMENT CENTRE, PORTMILL HOUSE, PORTMILL LANE, HITCHIN, SG5 1DJ
ODS code Y06095
518 m
THE PORTMILL SURGERY
114 QUEEN STREET, HITCHIN, SG4 9TH
ODS code E82044
571 m
BANCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
BANCROFT COURT, 30-35 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LH
ODS code E82053
689 m
REGAL CHAMBERS SURGERY
50 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LL
ODS code E82075
852 m
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
ASDA
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.2 miles
Moormead Close
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.2 miles
ASDA
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.2 miles
Moormead Close
BCT · Hitchin
- 0.3 miles
Grammar School Walk
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,634 published events cover 12 months, averaging 136.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 568 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.