Schools
48 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 6 secondary schools. St Francis College is the nearest published school at 273 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG6 3LQ
Letchworth South West · North Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire
- Postcode district
- SG6
- Postcode sector
- SG6 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG6 3LQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG6
- Postcode sector
- SG6 3
- Latitude
- 51.970487
- Longitude
- -0.231242
- British National Grid easting
- 521,600
- British National Grid northing
- 231,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- North Hertfordshire · E07000099
- Electoral ward
- Letchworth South West · E05015772
- Parish or community
- E43000232
- Westminster constituency
- North East Hertfordshire · E14001393
- Output area
- E00120092
- Lower layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 008E · E01023648
- Middle layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 008 · E02004916
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
- 48
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 6
- 273 m
St Francis College
Other independent school
- 416 m
St Christopher School
Other independent school
- 722 m
St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,460
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 555
- Anti social behaviour 278
- Criminal damage and arson 127
- Shoplifting 116
- Public order 96
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG6 3 residents
- 5,897
Age bands in SG6 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.1%
1,069 residents
641 residents
1,314 residents
1,722 residents
1,510 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
THE NEVELLS ROAD SURGERY
NEVELLS ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 4TS
ODS code E82008
1.2 km
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
1.4 km
REGAL CHAMBERS SURGERY
50 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LL
ODS code E82075
3.6 km
THE BALDOCK SURGERY
THE SURGERY, ASTONIA HOUSE, HIGH STREET, BALDOCK, SG7 6BP
ODS code E82099
3.6 km
BANCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
BANCROFT COURT, 30-35 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LH
ODS code E82053
3.8 km
THE PORTMILL SURGERY
114 QUEEN STREET, HITCHIN, SG4 9TH
ODS code E82044
3.8 km
HERTFORDSHIRE SPECIAL ALLOCATION SCHEME
THE TREATMENT CENTRE, PORTMILL HOUSE, PORTMILL LANE, HITCHIN, SG5 1DJ
ODS code Y06095
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
St Francis' College
BCT · Letchworth
- 0.1 miles
Sollershott Roundabout
BCT · Letchworth
- 0.1 miles
Field Lane
BCT · Letchworth
- 0.1 miles
Sollershott Roundabout
BCT · Letchworth
- 0.1 miles
St Francis' College
BCT · Letchworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Hertfordshire 008E, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,034 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,460 published events cover 12 months, averaging 121.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 555 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.