Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 4 secondary schools. Merrow Junior School is the nearest published school at 148 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GU4 7AF
Merrow · Guildford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GU4 7AF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- GU
- Postcode district
- GU4
- Postcode sector
- GU4 7
- Latitude
- 51.247934
- Longitude
- -0.529989
- British National Grid easting
- 502,695
- British National Grid northing
- 150,889
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
- E00190470
- Lower layer super output area
- Guildford 008C · E01030462
- Middle layer super output area
- Guildford 008 · E02006351
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 GU4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 4
- 148 m
Merrow Junior School
Foundation school
- 291 m
Merrow CofE Controlled Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
- 523 m
St Peter's Catholic School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 558
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 207
- Anti social behaviour 91
- Vehicle crime 59
- Criminal damage and arson 50
- Public order 48
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- GU4 7 residents
- 10,726
7 female, 5 male
Age bands in GU4 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.1%
2,080 residents
1,092 residents
2,622 residents
3,259 residents
2,276 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider GU4 7 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- 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
6
within 5 km
MERROW PARK SURGERY
KINGFISHER DRIVE, GUILDFORD, GU4 7EP
ODS code H81035
386 m
AUSTEN ROAD SURGERY
1 AUSTEN ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU1 3NW
ODS code H81006
2.3 km
ST. LUKE'S SURGERY
WARREN ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU1 3JH
ODS code H81085
2.3 km
DAPDUNE HOUSE SURGERY
DAPDUNE HOUSE, WHARF ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU1 4RP
ODS code H81029
3.4 km
WOODBRIDGE HILL SURGERY
1 DEERBARN ROAD, GUILDFORD, GU2 8YB
ODS code H81090
4.1 km
VILLAGES MEDICAL CTR
SEND BARNS LANE, SEND, WOKING, GU23 7BP
ODS code H81053
4.4 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Church
BCT · Merrow
- 0.1 miles
Wykeham Road
BCT · Merrow
- 0.1 miles
Wykeham Road
BCT · Merrow
- 0.1 miles
Church
BCT · Merrow
- 0.2 miles
Partridge Way
BCT · Merrow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Guildford 008C, 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
30,346 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
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
558 published events cover 12 months, averaging 46.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 207 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.