Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Amesbury School is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GU26 6BL
Hindhead & Beacon Hill · Waverley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Waverley
- Constituency
- Farnham and Bordon
- Postcode district
- GU26
- Postcode sector
- GU26 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GU26 6BL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- GU
- Postcode district
- GU26
- Postcode sector
- GU26 6
- Latitude
- 51.101483
- Longitude
- -0.743254
- British National Grid easting
- 488,089
- British National Grid northing
- 134,327
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Waverley · E07000216
- Electoral ward
- Hindhead & Beacon Hill · E05015167
- Parish or community
- E04013364
- Westminster constituency
- Farnham and Bordon · E14001234
- Output area
- E00157674
- Lower layer super output area
- Waverley 017D · E01030929
- Middle layer super output area
- Waverley 017 · E02006455
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 GU26
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 0 m
Amesbury School
Other independent school
- 820 m
St Edmunds school Trust Ltd
Other independent school
- 1.0 km
Woolmer Hill School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 234
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 88
- Anti social behaviour 34
- Other theft 21
- Shoplifting 21
- Burglary 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GU26 6 residents
- 7,763
Age bands in GU26 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.3%
1,204 residents
825 residents
1,532 residents
2,357 residents
2,111 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+
- 100%
- 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
- 100%
- 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
2
within 5 km
GRAYSHOTT SURGERY
BOUNDARY ROAD, GRAYSHOTT, HINDHEAD, GU26 6TY
ODS code H81076
971 m
HASLEMERE HEALTH CENTRE
CHURCH LANE, HASLEMERE, GU27 2BQ
ODS code H81062
2.7 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
- 0.3 miles
Honey Hanger
BCT · Nutcombe
- 0.3 miles
Honey Hanger
BCT · Nutcombe
- 0.4 miles
Polecat Hill Turn
BCT · Nutcombe
- 0.4 miles
Polecat Hill Turn
BCT · Nutcombe
- 0.4 miles
Lion Lane
BCT · Nutcombe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Waverley 017D, 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
29,208 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
234 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 88 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.