Schools
40 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 6 secondary schools. Tormead School is the nearest published school at 488 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GU1 2WL
Castle · Guildford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GU1 2WL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2018
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- GU
- Postcode district
- GU1
- Postcode sector
- GU1 2
- Latitude
- 51.238553
- Longitude
- -0.554383
- British National Grid easting
- 501,013
- British National Grid northing
- 149,812
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
- E00155262
- Lower layer super output area
- Guildford 011B · E01030437
- Middle layer super output area
- Guildford 011 · E02006354
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
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 80, Flat 1, Epsom Road, Guildford, GU1 2WL | 20 November 2020 | £462,500 |
| 80, Flat 10, Epsom Road, Guildford, GU1 2WL | 25 May 2018 | £535,000 |
| 80, Flat 9, Epsom Road, Guildford, GU1 2WL | 21 December 2017 | £725,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 40
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 6
- 488 m
Tormead School
Other independent school
- 563 m
Holy Trinity, Guildford, CofE Aided Junior School
Voluntary aided school
- 774 m
Guildford High School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,961
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 813
- Shoplifting 670
- Public order 408
- Anti social behaviour 301
- Other theft 205
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 27
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- GU1 2 residents
- 10,126
13 female, 14 male
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
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider GU1 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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
AUSTEN ROAD SURGERY
1 AUSTEN ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU1 3NW
ODS code H81006
289 m
ST. LUKE'S SURGERY
WARREN ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU1 3JH
ODS code H81085
365 m
DAPDUNE HOUSE SURGERY
DAPDUNE HOUSE, WHARF ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU1 4RP
ODS code H81029
1.7 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
2.6 km
GUILDOWNS GROUP PRACTICE
THE OAKS, APPLEGARTH AVENUE, GUILDFORD, GU2 8LZ
ODS code H81010
4.1 km
WONERSH SURGERY
THE STREET, WONERSH, GUILDFORD, GU5 0PE
ODS code H81043
4.6 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Albury Road North
BCT · Guildford
- 0.1 miles
St Omer Road
BCT · Guildford
- 0.1 miles
St Omer Road
BCT · Guildford
- 0.1 miles
Albury Road North
BCT · Guildford
- 0.2 miles
Upper Edgeborough Road
BCT · Guildford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Guildford 011B, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,245 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,961 published events cover 12 months, averaging 246.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 813 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.