Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 4 secondary schools. Merrow Junior School is the nearest published school at 858 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GU1 2YU
Merrow · Guildford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GU1 2YU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1992
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- GU
- Postcode district
- GU1
- Postcode sector
- GU1 2
- Latitude
- 51.241675
- Longitude
- -0.525689
- British National Grid easting
- 503,009
- British National Grid northing
- 150,199
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Guildford · E07000209
- Electoral ward
- Merrow · E05014952
- Parish or community
- E43000138
- Westminster constituency
- Guildford · E14001258
- Output area
- E00155383
- Lower layer super output area
- Guildford 011E · E01030461
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 4
- 858 m
Merrow Junior School
Foundation school
- 983 m
St Peter's Catholic School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Merrow CofE Controlled Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 411
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 162
- Anti social behaviour 63
- Vehicle crime 42
- Criminal damage and arson 39
- Public order 35
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
MERROW PARK SURGERY
KINGFISHER DRIVE, GUILDFORD, GU4 7EP
ODS code H81035
1.1 km
ST. LUKE'S SURGERY
WARREN ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU1 3JH
ODS code H81085
2.3 km
AUSTEN ROAD SURGERY
1 AUSTEN ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU1 3NW
ODS code H81006
2.3 km
DAPDUNE HOUSE SURGERY
DAPDUNE HOUSE, WHARF ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU1 4RP
ODS code H81029
3.6 km
WOODBRIDGE HILL SURGERY
1 DEERBARN ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU2 8YB
ODS code H81090
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Church
BCT · Merrow
- 0.3 miles
Church
BCT · Merrow
- 0.4 miles
Merrow Park and Ride
BCT · Merrow
- 0.4 miles
Levylsdene
BCT · Merrow
- 0.4 miles
Levylsdene
BCT · Merrow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Guildford 011E, 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
33,600 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
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
411 published events cover 12 months, averaging 34.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 162 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.