Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. Gordon's School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GU18 5PS
Lightwater · Surrey Heath · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lightwater
- Local authority
- Surrey Heath
- Constituency
- Surrey Heath
- Postcode district
- GU18
- Postcode sector
- GU18 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GU18 5PS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- GU
- Postcode district
- GU18
- Postcode sector
- GU18 5
- Latitude
- 51.349397
- Longitude
- -0.658787
- British National Grid easting
- 493,500
- British National Grid northing
- 162,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Surrey Heath · E07000214
- Electoral ward
- Lightwater · E05012031
- Parish or community
- E04009582
- Westminster constituency
- Surrey Heath · E14001532
- Output area
- E00156952
- Lower layer super output area
- Surrey Heath 003B · E01030779
- Middle layer super output area
- Surrey Heath 003 · E02006418
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 GU18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.1 km
Gordon's School
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- 1.1 km
Lightwater Village Infant School and Nursery
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- 1.4 km
Lightwater Village Junior School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 395
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 112
- Shoplifting 81
- Other theft 59
- Anti social behaviour 46
- Vehicle crime 23
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GU18 5 residents
- 6,609
Age bands in GU18 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.7%
937 residents
587 residents
1,323 residents
2,077 residents
1,613 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
LIGHTWATER SURGERY
ALL SAINTS ROAD, LIGHTWATER, GU18 5SQ
ODS code H81130
458 m
PARK HOUSE SURGERY
6 PARK STREET, BAGSHOT, GU19 5AQ
ODS code H81039
2.8 km
CHOBHAM & WEST END MEDICAL PRACTICE
16 WINDSOR ROAD, CHOBHAM, WOKING, GU24 8NA
ODS code H81015
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Blackstroud Lane West
BCT · Lightwater
- 0.1 miles
Blackstroud Lane West
BCT · Lightwater
- 0.3 miles
War Memorial
BCT · Lightwater
- 0.3 miles
War Memorial
BCT · Lightwater
- 0.4 miles
Red Road
BCT · Lightwater
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Surrey Heath 003B, 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
32,554 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
395 published events cover 12 months, averaging 32.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 112 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.