Schools
41 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 5 secondary schools. Tormead School is the nearest published school at 313 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GU1 2NJ
Castle · Guildford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GU1 2NJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1992
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- GU
- Postcode district
- GU1
- Postcode sector
- GU1 2
- Latitude
- 51.240280
- Longitude
- -0.557380
- British National Grid easting
- 500,800
- British National Grid northing
- 150,000
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
- E00155259
- Lower layer super output area
- Guildford 013A · E01030438
- 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
- 41
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 5
- 313 m
Tormead School
Other independent school
- 505 m
Guildford High School
Other independent school
- 725 m
Holy Trinity, Guildford, CofE Aided Junior School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,812
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,156
- Shoplifting 735
- Public order 515
- Anti social behaviour 374
- Other theft 278
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
7
within 5 km straight-line
AUSTEN ROAD SURGERY
1 AUSTEN ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU1 3NW
ODS code H81006
339 m
ST. LUKE'S SURGERY
WARREN ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU1 3JH
ODS code H81085
496 m
DAPDUNE HOUSE SURGERY
DAPDUNE HOUSE, WHARF ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU1 4RP
ODS code H81029
1.4 km
MERROW PARK SURGERY
KINGFISHER DRIVE, GUILDFORD, GU4 7EP
ODS code H81035
2.2 km
WOODBRIDGE HILL SURGERY
1 DEERBARN ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU2 8YB
ODS code H81090
2.4 km
GUILDOWNS GROUP PRACTICE
THE OAKS, APPLEGARTH AVENUE, GUILDFORD, GU2 8LZ
ODS code H81010
3.9 km
WONERSH SURGERY
THE STREET, WONERSH, GUILDFORD, GU5 0PE
ODS code H81043
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Cranley Road
BCT · Guildford
- 0.1 miles
Albury Road North
BCT · Guildford
- 0.1 miles
Albury Road North
BCT · Guildford
- 0.2 miles
Cross Lanes
BCT · Guildford
- 0.2 miles
Tormead School
BCT · Guildford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Guildford 013A, 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
29,947 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
3,812 published events cover 12 months, averaging 317.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,156 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.