Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Amesbury School is the nearest published school at 519 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GU26 6BX
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 6BX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1992
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- GU
- Postcode district
- GU26
- Postcode sector
- GU26 6
- Latitude
- 51.103114
- Longitude
- -0.750195
- British National Grid easting
- 487,600
- British National Grid northing
- 134,500
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
- E00157665
- 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
- 19
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 519 m
Amesbury School
Other independent school
- 669 m
St Edmunds school Trust Ltd
Other independent school
- 1.1 km
Woolmer Hill School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 181
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 74
- Anti social behaviour 26
- Shoplifting 21
- Other theft 14
- Burglary 11
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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
GRAYSHOTT SURGERY
BOUNDARY ROAD, GRAYSHOTT, HINDHEAD, GU26 6TY
ODS code H81076
840 m
HASLEMERE HEALTH CENTRE
CHURCH LANE, HASLEMERE, GU27 2BQ
ODS code H81062
3.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
The Fox and Pelican
BCT · Grayshott
- 0.5 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Grayshott
- 0.5 miles
The Fox and Pelican
BCT · Grayshott
- 0.6 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Grayshott
- 0.6 miles
Tarn Road
BCT · Hindhead
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
181 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 74 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.