Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Roman Way Academy is the nearest published school at 279 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG8 5WB
Royston Palace · North Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Royston Palace
- Local authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire
- Postcode district
- SG8
- Postcode sector
- SG8 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG8 5WB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- 1 August 2004
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG8
- Postcode sector
- SG8 5
- Latitude
- 52.058743
- Longitude
- -0.020385
- British National Grid easting
- 535,816
- British National Grid northing
- 241,888
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- North Hertfordshire · E07000099
- Electoral ward
- Royston Palace · E05015777
- Parish or community
- E04004793
- Westminster constituency
- North East Hertfordshire · E14001393
- Output area
- E00120163
- Lower layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 001B · E01023661
- Middle layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 001 · E02004909
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
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 279 m
Roman Way Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 803 m
King James Academy Royston
Academy converter
- 850 m
St Mary Roman Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 856
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 324
- Anti social behaviour 162
- Shoplifting 63
- Vehicle crime 55
- Criminal damage and arson 52
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG8 5 residents
- 11,451
Age bands in SG8 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.3%
2,107 residents
1,029 residents
3,119 residents
2,868 residents
2,050 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
ROYSIA SURGERY
BURNS ROAD, ROYSTON, SG8 5PT
ODS code E82132
81 m
ORCHARD SURGERY,MELBOURN
ORCHARD SURGERY, NEW ROAD, MELBOURN, ROYSTON, SG8 6BX
ODS code D81018
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Roysia Surgery
BCT · Royston
- 0.1 miles
Roysia Surgery
BCT · Royston
- 0.1 miles
Shakespeare
BCT · Royston
- 0.1 miles
Shakespeare
BCT · Royston
- 0.1 miles
Scott Close
BCT · Royston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Hertfordshire 001B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,768 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
856 published events cover 12 months, averaging 71.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 324 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.