Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Barrow Hills School is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GU8 6FL
Western Commons · Waverley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Western Commons
- Local authority
- Waverley
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash
- Postcode district
- GU8
- Postcode sector
- GU8 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GU8 6FL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- GU
- Postcode district
- GU8
- Postcode sector
- GU8 6
- Latitude
- 51.134778
- Longitude
- -0.684678
- British National Grid easting
- 492,124
- British National Grid northing
- 138,101
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Waverley · E07000216
- Electoral ward
- Western Commons · E05015169
- Parish or community
- E04009621
- Westminster constituency
- Godalming and Ash · E14001249
- Output area
- E00157449
- Lower layer super output area
- Waverley 012B · E01030879
- Middle layer super output area
- Waverley 012 · E02006450
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 GU8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.7 km
Barrow Hills School
Other independent school
- 2.8 km
King Edward's School Witley
Other independent school
- 3.0 km
Witley CofE Controlled Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 8
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GU8 6 residents
- 3,826
Age bands in GU8 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.3%
643 residents
340 residents
671 residents
1,194 residents
1,016 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+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Gigabit-capable
- 80%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 80%
- 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
WITLEY SURGERY
WHEELER LANE, WITLEY, GODALMING, GU8 5QR
ODS code H81031
3.4 km
CHIDDINGFOLD SURGERY
RIDGLEY ROAD, CHIDDINGFOLD, GODALMING, GU8 4QP
ODS code H81022
3.9 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
- 0.5 miles
Dog and Pheasant
BCT · Brook
- 0.5 miles
Dog and Pheasant
BCT · Brook
- 0.9 miles
Haslemere Road
BCT · Upper Birtley
- 0.9 miles
Haslemere Road
BCT · Upper Birtley
- 1.1 miles
Cosford Farm
BCT · Thursley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Waverley 012B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,502 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
13 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 8 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.