Schools
50 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 8 secondary schools. St Francis College is the nearest published school at 403 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG6 3TT
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 3TT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2008
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG6
- Postcode sector
- SG6 3
- Latitude
- 51.976023
- Longitude
- -0.229772
- British National Grid easting
- 521,686
- British National Grid northing
- 232,318
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
- E00120079
- Lower layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 008B · E01023645
- 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
- 50
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 8
- 403 m
St Francis College
Other independent school
- 578 m
Pixmore Junior School
Community school
- 775 m
Hillshott Infant School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,875
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 752
- Anti social behaviour 351
- Criminal damage and arson 156
- Shoplifting 130
- Public order 117
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
9
within 5 km
THE NEVELLS ROAD SURGERY
NEVELLS ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 4TS
ODS code E82008
541 m
THE GARDEN CITY SURGERY
59 STATION ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 3BJ
ODS code E82661
577 m
THE BIRCHWOOD AND SOLLERSHOTT SURGERIES
232-240 NEVELLS ROAD, LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY, SG6 4UB
ODS code E82082
789 m
THE BALDOCK SURGERY
THE SURGERY, ASTONIA HOUSE, HIGH STREET, BALDOCK, SG7 6BP
ODS code E82099
3.3 km
REGAL CHAMBERS SURGERY
50 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LL
ODS code E82075
4.1 km
BANCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
BANCROFT COURT, 30-35 BANCROFT, HITCHIN, SG5 1LH
ODS code E82053
4.2 km
THE PORTMILL SURGERY
114 QUEEN STREET, HITCHIN, SG4 9TH
ODS code E82044
4.3 km
HERTFORDSHIRE SPECIAL ALLOCATION SCHEME
THE TREATMENT CENTRE, PORTMILL HOUSE, PORTMILL LANE, HITCHIN, SG5 1DJ
ODS code Y06095
4.4 km
LARKSFIELD AND ARLESEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
LARKSFIELD & ARLESEY SURGERY, ARLESEY ROAD, STOTFOLD, HITCHIN, SG5 4HB
ODS code E81022
4.6 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Plinston Hall
BCT · Letchworth
- 0.1 miles
Plinston Hall
BCT · Letchworth
- 0.1 miles
Gernon Road
BCT · Letchworth
- 0.2 miles
Broadway
BCT · Letchworth
- 0.2 miles
Broadway
BCT · Letchworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Hertfordshire 008B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
20,065 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 4 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
1,875 published events cover 12 months, averaging 156.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 752 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.