Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Barrow Hills School is the nearest published school at 1.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GU8 6NL
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 6NL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- GU
- Postcode district
- GU8
- Postcode sector
- GU8 6
- Latitude
- 51.149300
- Longitude
- -0.697477
- British National Grid easting
- 491,200
- British National Grid northing
- 139,700
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
- 11
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.9 km
Barrow Hills School
Other independent school
- 3.4 km
The Chandler CofE Aided Junior School
Voluntary aided school
- 3.5 km
Witley CofE Controlled Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 38
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 21
- Violence and sexual offences 7
- Burglary 4
- Public order 3
- Other theft 2
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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
WITLEY SURGERY
WHEELER LANE, WITLEY, GODALMING, GU8 5QR
ODS code H81031
3.4 km
SPRINGFIELD SURGERY
SPRINGFIELD, ELSTEAD, GODALMING, GU8 6EG
ODS code H81044
3.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Cosford Farm
BCT · Thursley
- 0.6 miles
Cosford Farm
BCT · Thursley
- 1.5 miles
Dog and Pheasant
BCT · Brook
- 1.6 miles
Dog and Pheasant
BCT · Brook
- 1.7 miles
Cockhill
BCT · Elstead
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
38 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 21 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.