Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 6 secondary schools. Maybury Primary School is the nearest published school at 352 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GU21 5BA
Canalside · Woking · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GU21 5BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- GU
- Postcode district
- GU21
- Postcode sector
- GU21 5
- Latitude
- 51.320367
- Longitude
- -0.554986
- British National Grid easting
- 500,792
- British National Grid northing
- 158,909
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Woking · E07000217
- Electoral ward
- Canalside · E05010796
- Parish or community
- E43000144
- Westminster constituency
- Woking · E14001592
- Output area
- E00180630
- Lower layer super output area
- Woking 008A · E01030954
- Middle layer super output area
- Woking 008 · E02006463
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 GU21
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 6
- 352 m
Maybury Primary School
Academy converter
- 422 m
The Park School
Academy special sponsor led
- 483 m
Compass Community School Hampshire
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,944
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 994
- Shoplifting 384
- Anti social behaviour 357
- Public order 293
- Other theft 249
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GU21 5 residents
- 9,162
Age bands in GU21 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.5%
1,918 residents
1,132 residents
2,943 residents
1,998 residents
938 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 50%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
14
within 5 km
HEATHCOT MEDICAL PRACTICE
YORK HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, HEATHSIDE ROAD, WOKING, GU22 7XL
ODS code H81032
549 m
HILLVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
3 HEATHSIDE ROAD, WOKING, GU22 7QP
ODS code H81061
574 m
SUNNY MEED SURGERY
15-17 HEATHSIDE ROAD, WOKING, GU22 7EY
ODS code H81019
608 m
SOUTHVIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
SOUTHVIEW SURGERY, SOUTHVIEW COURT, GUILDFORD ROAD, WOKING, GU22 7RR
ODS code H81041
820 m
THE PRACTICE COLLEGE ROAD
4-6 COLLEGE ROAD, MAYBURY, WOKING, GU22 8BT
ODS code H81641
1.1 km
MAYBURY SURGERY
ALPHA ROAD, WOKING, GU22 8HF
ODS code H81643
1.3 km
SHEERWATER HEALTH CENTRE
DEVONSHIRE AVENUE, DEVONSHIRE AVE, SHEERWATER, WOKING, GU21 5QJ
ODS code H81123
2.3 km
GOLDSWORTH PARK HEALTH CENTRE
HEALTH CENTRE, THE GOLDSWORTH PARK CENTRE, GOLDSWORTH PARK, WOKING, GU21 3LQ
ODS code H81024
2.6 km
ST JOHN'S FAMILY PRACTICE
HERMITAGE ROAD, ST. JOHNS, WOKING, GU21 8TD
ODS code H81025
3.1 km
MADEIRA MEDICAL
MADEIRA ROAD, WEST BYFLEET, KT14 6DH
ODS code H81034
3.9 km
PARISHES BRIDGE MED.PRACT
WEST BYFLEET HEALTH CENTRE, MADEIRA ROAD, WEST BYFLEET, KT14 6DH
ODS code H81036
3.9 km
WEY FAMILY PRACTICE
MADEIRA ROAD, WEST BYFLEET, KT14 6DH
ODS code H81050
3.9 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL CTR
SEND BARNS LANE, SEND, WOKING, GU23 7BP
ODS code H81053
4.3 km
CHOBHAM & WEST END MEDICAL PRACTICE
16 WINDSOR ROAD, CHOBHAM, WOKING, GU24 8NA
ODS code H81015
4.7 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Woking Railway Station
BCT · Woking
- 0.1 miles
Woking Railway Station
BCT · Woking
- 0.1 miles
Woking Railway Station
BCT · Woking
- 0.1 miles
Woking Railway Station
BCT · Woking
- 0.1 miles
Woking Railway Station
BCT · Woking
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Woking 008A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,194 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
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
2,944 published events cover 12 months, averaging 245.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 994 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.