Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 6 secondary schools. Guildford High School is the nearest published school at 314 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GU1 2FQ
Castle · Guildford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GU1 2FQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 August 1997
- Postcode area
- GU
- Postcode district
- GU1
- Postcode sector
- GU1 2
- Latitude
- 51.239434
- Longitude
- -0.561705
- British National Grid easting
- 500,500
- British National Grid northing
- 149,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Guildford · E07000209
- Electoral ward
- Castle · E05014949
- Parish or community
- E43000138
- Westminster constituency
- Guildford · E14001258
- Output area
- E00155332
- Lower layer super output area
- Guildford 013D · E01030453
- Middle layer super output area
- Guildford 013 · E02006356
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 GU1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 6
- 314 m
Guildford High School
Other independent school
- 571 m
Tormead School
Other independent school
- 584 m
Royal Grammar School Guildford
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,774
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,673
- Shoplifting 839
- Public order 603
- Anti social behaviour 434
- Other theft 323
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GU1 2 residents
- 10,126
Age bands in GU1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 18%
1,831 residents
1,152 residents
2,102 residents
2,802 residents
1,731 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
AUSTEN ROAD SURGERY
1 AUSTEN ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU1 3NW
ODS code H81006
356 m
ST. LUKE'S SURGERY
WARREN ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU1 3JH
ODS code H81085
507 m
DAPDUNE HOUSE SURGERY
DAPDUNE HOUSE, WHARF ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU1 4RP
ODS code H81029
1.1 km
WOODBRIDGE HILL SURGERY
1 DEERBARN ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU2 8YB
ODS code H81090
2.1 km
MERROW PARK SURGERY
KINGFISHER DRIVE, GUILDFORD, GU4 7EP
ODS code H81035
2.5 km
GUILDOWNS GROUP PRACTICE
THE OAKS, APPLEGARTH AVENUE, GUILDFORD, GU2 8LZ
ODS code H81010
3.6 km
WONERSH SURGERY
THE STREET, WONERSH, GUILDFORD, GU5 0PE
ODS code H81043
4.8 km
FAIRLANDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE FAIRLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE, FAIRLANDS AVENUE, FAIRLANDS, GUILDFORD, GU3 3NA
ODS code H81064
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
London Road Railway Station
BCT · Guildford
- 0.1 miles
Waterden Road
BCT · Guildford
- 0.1 miles
London Road (Guildford) Rail Station
RSE · Guildford
- 0.1 miles
London Road Railway Station
BCT · Guildford
- 0.1 miles
Waterden Road
BCT · Guildford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Guildford 013D, 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
29,009 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
4,774 published events cover 12 months, averaging 397.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,673 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.