Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 5 secondary schools. Roecroft Lower School is the nearest published school at 261 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG5 4WZ
Stotfold · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Stotfold
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin
- Postcode district
- SG5
- Postcode sector
- SG5 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG5 4WZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 2004
- Terminated
- 1 August 2012
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG5
- Postcode sector
- SG5 4
- Latitude
- 52.013591
- Longitude
- -0.226804
- British National Grid easting
- 521,788
- British National Grid northing
- 236,501
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Stotfold · E05014422
- Parish or community
- E04012258
- Westminster constituency
- Hitchin · E14001289
- Output area
- E00177186
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 014B · E01017447
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 014 · E02003612
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
- 29
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 5
- 261 m
Roecroft Lower School
Community school
- 408 m
St Mary's CofE Academy Stotfold
Academy converter
- 683 m
Pix Brook Academy
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 482
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 204
- Anti social behaviour 98
- Public order 41
- Other theft 26
- Criminal damage and arson 26
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG5 4 residents
- 12,410
Age bands in SG5 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.1%
2,710 residents
1,061 residents
3,394 residents
3,253 residents
2,004 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
LARKSFIELD AND ARLESEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
LARKSFIELD & ARLESEY SURGERY, ARLESEY ROAD, STOTFOLD, HITCHIN, SG5 4HB
ODS code E81022
692 m
THE BIRCHWOOD AND SOLLERSHOTT SURGERIES
232-240 NEVELLS ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 4UB
ODS code E82082
3.5 km
THE NEVELLS ROAD SURGERY
NEVELLS ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 4TS
ODS code E82008
3.6 km
THE GARDEN CITY SURGERY
59 STATION ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 3BJ
ODS code E82661
3.7 km
THE BALDOCK SURGERY
THE SURGERY, ASTONIA HOUSE, HIGH STREET, BALDOCK, SG7 6BP
ODS code E82099
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Co Operative
BCT · Stotfold
- 0.0 miles
Co Operative
BCT · Stotfold
- 0.1 miles
Church Road
BCT · Stotfold
- 0.1 miles
The Avenue
BCT · Stotfold
- 0.1 miles
Elizabeth House
BCT · Stotfold
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 014B, 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
28,491 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
482 published events cover 12 months, averaging 40.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 204 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.