Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 5 secondary schools. Pirton School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG5 3RQ
Offa · North Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Offa
- Local authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin
- Postcode district
- SG5
- Postcode sector
- SG5 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG5 3RQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG5
- Postcode sector
- SG5 3
- Latitude
- 51.966292
- Longitude
- -0.312925
- British National Grid easting
- 516,000
- British National Grid northing
- 231,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- North Hertfordshire · E07000099
- Electoral ward
- Offa · E05015774
- Parish or community
- E04004789
- Westminster constituency
- Hitchin · E14001289
- Output area
- E00120121
- Lower layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 014F · E01023653
- Middle layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 014 · E02004922
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
- 26
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.6 km
Pirton School
Community school
- 1.9 km
Oughton Primary and Nursery School
Community school
- 2.1 km
The Priory School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 118
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 42
- Anti social behaviour 35
- Vehicle crime 9
- Criminal damage and arson 9
- Public order 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG5 3 residents
- 7,089
Age bands in SG5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.2%
1,197 residents
662 residents
1,487 residents
2,176 residents
1,575 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
REGAL CHAMBERS SURGERY
50 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LL
ODS code E82075
3.0 km
BANCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
BANCROFT COURT, 30-35 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LH
ODS code E82053
3.0 km
HERTFORDSHIRE SPECIAL ALLOCATION SCHEME
THE TREATMENT CENTRE, PORTMILL HOUSE, PORTMILL LANE, HITCHIN, SG5 1DJ
ODS code Y06095
3.2 km
THE PORTMILL SURGERY
114 QUEEN STREET, HITCHIN, SG4 9TH
ODS code E82044
3.3 km
LOWER STONDON SURGERY
109 STATION ROAD, LOWER STONDON, HENLOW, SG16 6JJ
ODS code E81061
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
High Street
BCT · Pirton
- 0.8 miles
High Street
BCT · Pirton
- 0.9 miles
Swinburne Avenue
BCT · Westmill Estate
- 0.9 miles
Royal Oak Lane
BCT · Pirton
- 0.9 miles
Royal Oak Lane
BCT · Pirton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Hertfordshire 014F, 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
25,733 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
118 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 42 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.