Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 4 secondary schools. Garden City Academy is the nearest published school at 573 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG6 2HE
Letchworth South East · North Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire
- Postcode district
- SG6
- Postcode sector
- SG6 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG6 2HE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG6
- Postcode sector
- SG6 2
- Latitude
- 51.978224
- Longitude
- -0.207640
- British National Grid easting
- 523,200
- British National Grid northing
- 232,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- North Hertfordshire · E07000099
- Electoral ward
- Letchworth South East · E05015771
- Parish or community
- E43000232
- Westminster constituency
- North East Hertfordshire · E14001393
- Output area
- E00189431
- Lower layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 006A · E01023630
- Middle layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 006 · E02004914
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 SG6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 4
- 573 m
Garden City Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 573 m
Woolgrove School, Special Needs Academy
Academy special converter
- 812 m
Hillshott Infant School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,979
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 765
- Anti social behaviour 344
- Shoplifting 176
- Criminal damage and arson 150
- Other theft 146
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG6 2 residents
- 7,864
Age bands in SG6 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.6%
1,351 residents
757 residents
1,830 residents
2,063 residents
1,858 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
THE GARDEN CITY SURGERY
59 STATION ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 3BJ
ODS code E82661
1.2 km
THE BIRCHWOOD AND SOLLERSHOTT SURGERIES
232-240 NEVELLS ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 4UB
ODS code E82082
1.3 km
THE NEVELLS ROAD SURGERY
NEVELLS ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 4TS
ODS code E82008
1.5 km
THE BALDOCK SURGERY
THE SURGERY, ASTONIA HOUSE, HIGH STREET, BALDOCK, SG7 6BP
ODS code E82099
1.8 km
LARKSFIELD AND ARLESEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
LARKSFIELD & ARLESEY SURGERY, ARLESEY ROAD, STOTFOLD, HITCHIN, SG5 4HB
ODS code E81022
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Leisure Centre
BCT · Letchworth
- 0.1 miles
Sixth Avenue
BCT · Letchworth
- 0.1 miles
Leisure Centre
BCT · Letchworth
- 0.1 miles
Jackman's Place
BCT · Letchworth
- 0.2 miles
Football Ground
BCT · Letchworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Hertfordshire 006A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,217 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
1,979 published events cover 12 months, averaging 164.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 765 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.