Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 2 secondary schools. Freman College is the nearest published school at 1.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG9 9RE
Buntingford · East Hertfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Buntingford
- Local authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire
- Postcode district
- SG9
- Postcode sector
- SG9 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG9 9RE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2006
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG9
- Postcode sector
- SG9 9
- Latitude
- 51.957656
- Longitude
- -0.069773
- British National Grid easting
- 532,729
- British National Grid northing
- 230,555
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- East Hertfordshire · E07000242
- Electoral ward
- Buntingford · E05015362
- Parish or community
- E04012917
- Westminster constituency
- North East Hertfordshire · E14001393
- Output area
- E00190259
- Lower layer super output area
- East Hertfordshire 019A · E01023494
- Middle layer super output area
- East Hertfordshire 019 · E02007093
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 SG9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 2
- 3.0 km
Freman College
Academy converter
- 3.3 km
Edwinstree Church of England Middle School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.6 km
Millfield First and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 42
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 14
- Drugs 5
- Burglary 5
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Other theft 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG9 9 residents
- 9,243
Age bands in SG9 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.8%
1,851 residents
854 residents
2,263 residents
2,362 residents
1,810 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
- 0.6 miles
Cottered Road
BCT · Throcking
- 0.6 miles
Cottered Road
BCT · Throcking
- 0.8 miles
The Bull PH
BCT · Cottered
- 0.8 miles
The Bull PH
BCT · Cottered
- 1.0 miles
Stocking Hill
BCT · Cottered
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Hertfordshire 019A, 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
15,345 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
42 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 14 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.