Schools
38 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 4 secondary schools. Westbrook Hay is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP1 2RX
Bovingdon, Flaunden and Chipperfield · Dacorum · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Hemel Hempstead
- Local authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead
- Postcode district
- HP1
- Postcode sector
- HP1 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP1 2RX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP1
- Postcode sector
- HP1 2
- Latitude
- 51.747169
- Longitude
- -0.525632
- British National Grid easting
- 501,881
- British National Grid northing
- 206,413
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Dacorum · E07000096
- Electoral ward
- Bovingdon, Flaunden and Chipperfield · E05004700
- Parish or community
- E43000076
- Westminster constituency
- Hemel Hempstead · E14001278
- Output area
- E00118740
- Lower layer super output area
- Dacorum 021F · E01023378
- Middle layer super output area
- Dacorum 021 · E02004876
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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Maltings, Sharpes Lane, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 2RX | 4 September 2015 | £810,000 |
| Cress Farm, Sharpes Lane, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 2RX | 18 October 2006 | £915,000 |
| Cress Farm, Sharpes Lane, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 2RX | 20 December 1996 | £160,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 38
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.2 km
Westbrook Hay
Other independent school
- 1.7 km
Pixies Hill Primary School
Community school
- 1.8 km
Oakleaf Primary
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 136
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 56
- Anti social behaviour 26
- Vehicle crime 11
- Public order 9
- Other theft 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- HP1 2 residents
- 8,600
8 female, 6 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HP1 2 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+
- 83.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 83.3%
- 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
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
2.7 km
ARCHWAY SURGERY
52 HIGH STREET, BOVINGDON, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 0HJ
ODS code E82643
2.8 km
FERNVILLE SURGERY
MIDLAND ROAD, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 5BL
ODS code E82022
3.8 km
GOSSOMS END SURGERY
VICTORY ROAD, BERKHAMSTED, HP4 1DL
ODS code E82652
4.1 km
LINCOLN HOUSE SURGERY
163 LONDON ROAD, APSLEY, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 9SQ
ODS code E82009
4.1 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
- 0.2 miles
Watermill Hotel
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.2 miles
St John's Church
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.2 miles
Watermill Hotel
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.2 miles
St John's Church
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.5 miles
Pouchen End Lane
BCT · Winkwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dacorum 021F, 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
30,247 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
136 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 56 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.