Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ashwell Primary School is the nearest published school at 483 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG7 5LH
Arbury · North Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Arbury
- Local authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire
- Postcode district
- SG7
- Postcode sector
- SG7 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG7 5LH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG7
- Postcode sector
- SG7 5
- Latitude
- 52.044099
- Longitude
- -0.150687
- British National Grid easting
- 526,925
- British National Grid northing
- 240,024
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- North Hertfordshire · E07000099
- Electoral ward
- Arbury · E05015754
- Parish or community
- E04004767
- Westminster constituency
- North East Hertfordshire · E14001393
- Output area
- E00119786
- Lower layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 016B · E01023586
- Middle layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 016 · E02007088
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 SG7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 483 m
Ashwell Primary School
Community school
- 3.0 km
Steeple Morden CofE VC Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.2 km
Guilden Morden CofE Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 60
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 23
- Anti social behaviour 10
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Other theft 5
- Burglary 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG7 5 residents
- 4,762
Age bands in SG7 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.6%
797 residents
424 residents
1,005 residents
1,355 residents
1,045 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
ASHWELL SURGERY
GARDINERS LANE, ASHWELL, BALDOCK, SG7 5PY
ODS code D81047
429 m
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Post Office
BCT · Ashwell
- 0.2 miles
Post Office
BCT · Ashwell
- 0.2 miles
War Memorial
BCT · Ashwell
- 0.3 miles
War Memorial
BCT · Ashwell
- 0.3 miles
Gardiners Lane
BCT · Ashwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Hertfordshire 016B, 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
26,359 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
60 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 23 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.