Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 0 secondary schools. Reed First School is the nearest published school at 814 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG8 8AW
Ermine · North Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Ward
- Ermine
- Local authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire
- Postcode district
- SG8
- Postcode sector
- SG8 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG8 8AW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG8
- Postcode sector
- SG8 8
- Latitude
- 52.002198
- Longitude
- -0.020201
- British National Grid easting
- 536,000
- British National Grid northing
- 235,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- North Hertfordshire · E07000099
- Electoral ward
- Ermine · E05015759
- Parish or community
- E04004792
- Westminster constituency
- North East Hertfordshire · E14001393
- Output area
- E00119847
- Lower layer super output area
- North Hertfordshire 016D · E01023598
- 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 SG8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 0
- 814 m
Reed First School
Community school
- 2.4 km
Barkway VA Church of England First School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.9 km
Therfield First School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 11
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Drugs 2
- Other theft 2
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Burglary 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG8 8 residents
- 3,389
Age bands in SG8 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.8%
550 residents
288 residents
680 residents
1,060 residents
896 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Reed
- 0.4 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Reed
- 0.5 miles
Silver Ball Cafe
BCT · Reed
- 0.5 miles
Silver Ball Cafe
BCT · Reed
- 0.5 miles
Jackson's Lane
BCT · Reed
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Hertfordshire 016D, 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
18,850 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
11 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.