Royston
Royston is covered by postcode district SG8. It is in the North Hertfordshire council area, Hertfordshire.
ONS publishes this built-up area as Royston (North Hertfordshire).
Every postcode in Royston, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 22
- Some can get gigabit: 85
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 305
- Ofcom gives no figure: 17
Of the 429 postcodes in Royston that ONS places, 22 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 85 have some that can, 305 can all get it and 17 have no Ofcom figure.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.0514, longitude -0.0215. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
What is it like to live in Royston?
Homes sold for a typical £356,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 305 of the 412 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 429 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 5 primary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Royston, 400 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Royston?
Homes in Royston sold for a typical £356,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 220 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £372,500 from 329 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £590,000 41 sales
- Semi-detached £405,000 56 sales
- Terraced £348,000 72 sales
- Flat or maisonette £205,000 51 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole SG8 district, Royston's main postcode district: a typical £402,380.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Royston: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Royston?
20 of the 429 postcodes now in use in Royston came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 3 of the 329 homes sold in Royston were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SG8 district, 10%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Royston | Across the SG8 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 220 (0%) | 5 of 442 (1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 3 of 329 (Under 1%) | 69 of 661 (10%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Royston?
Ofcom reports on 412 of the 429 postcodes in Royston. At 305 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Royston at risk of flooding?
None of the 429 postcodes in Royston is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Royston?
The open schools at the postcodes in Royston. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- St Mary Roman Catholic Primary School200 m 227 pupils, 210 places
- Tannery Drift School550 m 320 pupils, 345 places
- Icknield Walk First School600 m 335 pupils, 360 places
- Studlands Rise First School750 m 170 pupils, 180 places
- King James Academy Royston800 m 947 pupils, 1,321 places
- Roman Way Academy900 m 219 pupils, 277 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Royston?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Royston is Royston Rail Station, 400 m away in a straight line.
- Royston Rail Station Railway station 400 mWalk
- Meldreth Rail Station Railway station 4.8 kmCycle
- Ashwell & Morden Rail Station Railway station 6.5 kmDrive
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Royston?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Royston. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Roysia Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2025 · Phone 01763 243166 800 mWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Royston safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,053 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Royston over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 93 September 2025
- 85 October 2025
- 69 November 2025
- 65 December 2025
- 64 January 2026
- 83 February 2026
- 101 March 2026
- 80 April 2026
- 94 May 2026
- 96 June 2026
- 103 July 2026
- 120 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 31, other crime 23, bicycle theft 8, possession of weapons 7, robbery 6, theft from the person 5.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Royston?
- District, borough or city council
- North Hertfordshire
- County council
- Hertfordshire
- Parliamentary constituency
- North East Hertfordshire
- Police force area
- Hertfordshire
- Region
- East of England
- Country
- England
- MP
- Chris Hinchliff (Labour)
All 429 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.
Moving to Royston
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell North Hertfordshire about council tax Council tax, on north-herts.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Royston
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Royston postcodes
429 postcodes in use in Royston, by district:
That district is in the SG postcode area.
Check a Royston postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Royston
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Royston's £356,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Royston
- What is the postcode for Royston?
- Postcode district SG8, with 429 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Royston in?
- North Hertfordshire, with Hertfordshire as its county council. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Royston?
- Chris Hinchliff (Labour), for North East Hertfordshire. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Royston?
- A typical £356,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 220 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Royston?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include St Mary Roman Catholic Primary School, Tannery Drift School and Icknield Walk First School; secondary schools at its postcodes include King James Academy Royston. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Royston have a railway station?
- Yes: Royston station, 400 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Royston?
- Ofcom reports on 412 of the 429 postcodes in Royston. At 305 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Royston at risk of flooding?
- None of the 429 postcodes in Royston is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Royston?
- 20 of the 429 postcodes now in use in Royston came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 3 of the 329 homes sold in Royston were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SG8 district, 10%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Environment Agency flood risk
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
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