Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Roman Way Academy is the nearest published school at 588 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG8 1GE
Royston Heath · North Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Royston Heath
- Local authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire
- Postcode district
- SG8
- Postcode sector
- SG8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG8 1GE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2022
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG8
- Postcode sector
- SG8 1
- Latitude
- 52.057946
- Longitude
- -0.032397
- British National Grid easting
- 534,995
- British National Grid northing
- 241,777
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- North Hertfordshire · E07000099
- Electoral ward
- Royston Heath · E05015775
- Parish or community
- E04004793
- Westminster constituency
- North East Hertfordshire · E14001393
- Output area
- E00120132
- Lower layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 002C · E01023656
- Middle layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 002 · E02004910
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 SG8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 588 m
Roman Way Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 907 m
Tannery Drift School
Community school
- 1.2 km
St Mary Roman Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 827
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 296
- Anti social behaviour 159
- Shoplifting 63
- Vehicle crime 60
- Other theft 52
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
ROYSIA SURGERY
BURNS ROAD, ROYSTON, SG8 5PT
ODS code E82132
750 m
ORCHARD SURGERY,MELBOURN
ORCHARD SURGERY, NEW ROAD, MELBOURN, ROYSTON, SG8 6BX
ODS code D81018
4.4 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Beverley Close
BCT · Royston
- 0.1 miles
Beverley Close
BCT · Royston
- 0.2 miles
Tesco
BCT · Royston
- 0.2 miles
Rock Road
BCT · Royston
- 0.2 miles
Rock Road
BCT · Royston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Hertfordshire 002C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,396 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
827 published events cover 12 months, averaging 68.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 296 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.