Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ashwell Primary School is the nearest published school at 335 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG7 5LQ
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 5LQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG7
- Postcode sector
- SG7 5
- Latitude
- 52.043037
- Longitude
- -0.154011
- British National Grid easting
- 526,700
- British National Grid northing
- 239,900
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
- 335 m
Ashwell Primary School
Community school
- 3.2 km
Steeple Morden CofE VC Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.4 km
Guilden Morden CofE Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 59
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 22
- Anti social behaviour 11
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Other theft 5
- Public order 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
172 m
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Gardiners Lane
BCT · Ashwell
- 0.2 miles
Gardiners Lane
BCT · Ashwell
- 0.2 miles
Post Office
BCT · Ashwell
- 0.2 miles
Post Office
BCT · Ashwell
- 0.4 miles
War Memorial
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
59 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 22 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.