Schools
38 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 4 secondary schools. Westbrook Hay is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP1 2BF
Berkhamsted East · Dacorum · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Berkhamsted East
- Local authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted
- Postcode district
- HP1
- Postcode sector
- HP1 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP1 2BF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 2003
- Terminated
- 1 September 2006
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP1
- Postcode sector
- HP1 2
- Latitude
- 51.751340
- Longitude
- -0.528393
- British National Grid easting
- 501,681
- British National Grid northing
- 206,873
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Dacorum · E07000096
- Electoral ward
- Berkhamsted East · E05004698
- Parish or community
- E04004697
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00118689
- Lower layer super output area
- Dacorum 009B · E01023362
- Middle layer super output area
- Dacorum 009 · E02004864
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 HP1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 38
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.6 km
Westbrook Hay
Other independent school
- 1.9 km
Pixies Hill Primary School
Community school
- 2.0 km
Swing Gate Infant School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 113
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 32
- Anti social behaviour 24
- Vehicle crime 12
- Burglary 8
- Other theft 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HP1 2 residents
- 8,600
Age bands in HP1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.4%
1,605 residents
887 residents
2,345 residents
2,304 residents
1,396 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
PARKWOOD SURGERY
PARKWOOD DRIVE SURGERY, PARKWOOD DRIVE, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP1 2LD
ODS code E82091
2.3 km
THE MANOR STREET SURGERY
ANNANDALE HSE, MANOR STREET, BERKHAMSTED, HP4 2DL
ODS code E82094
2.3 km
ARCHWAY SURGERY
52 HIGH STREET, BOVINGDON, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 0HJ
ODS code E82643
3.2 km
GOSSOMS END SURGERY
VICTORY ROAD, BERKHAMSTED, HP4 1DL
ODS code E82652
3.7 km
FERNVILLE SURGERY
MIDLAND ROAD, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 5BL
ODS code E82022
3.9 km
LINCOLN HOUSE SURGERY
163 LONDON ROAD, APSLEY, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 9SQ
ODS code E82009
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
St John's Church
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.2 miles
St John's Church
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.4 miles
Broadway Farm
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.4 miles
Broadway Farm
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.5 miles
Watermill Hotel
BCT · Bourne End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dacorum 009B, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,523 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
113 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 32 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.