Schools
47 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 6 secondary schools. Unity College is the nearest published school at 275 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP12 3BL
Sands · Buckinghamshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sands
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe
- Postcode district
- HP12
- Postcode sector
- HP12 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP12 3BL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP12
- Postcode sector
- HP12 3
- Latitude
- 51.637353
- Longitude
- -0.773152
- British National Grid easting
- 484,999
- British National Grid northing
- 193,884
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Buckinghamshire · E06000060
- Electoral ward
- Sands · E05015968
- Parish or community
- E43000275
- Westminster constituency
- Wycombe · E14001600
- Output area
- E00090371
- Lower layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 044C · E01017913
- Middle layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 044 · E02003707
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 HP12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 47
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 6
- 275 m
Unity College
Other independent special school
- 445 m
Millbrook Combined School
Community school
- 677 m
The Disraeli School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,600
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,316
- Shoplifting 425
- Anti social behaviour 356
- Public order 270
- Other theft 269
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HP12 3 residents
- 12,821
Age bands in HP12 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 35.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.6%
2,950 residents
1,738 residents
4,768 residents
2,905 residents
1,156 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
11
within 5 km
TOWER HOUSE SURGERY
169 WEST WYCOMBE ROAD, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP12 3AF
ODS code K82010
245 m
RIVERSIDE SURGERY
GEORGE STREET, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP11 2RZ
ODS code K82036
966 m
DESBOROUGH SURGERY
65 DESBOROUGH AVENUE, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP11 2SD
ODS code K82017
995 m
CHILTERN HOUSE MED CENTRE
45-47 TEMPLE END, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP13 5DN
ODS code K82020
1.5 km
CARRINGTON HOUSE SURGERY
19 PRIORY ROAD, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP13 6SL
ODS code K82044
1.8 km
PRIORY SURGERY
24-26 PRIORY AVENUE, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP13 6SH
ODS code K82053
1.8 km
WYE VALLEY SURGERY
WYCOMBE HOSPITAL, QUEEN ALEXANDRA ROAD, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP11 2TT
ODS code K82030
1.8 km
CRESSEX HEALTH CENTRE
CORONATION ROAD, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP12 3PP
ODS code K82603
2.3 km
HUGHENDEN VALLEY SURGERY
VALLEY ROAD, HUGHENDEN VALLEY, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP14 4LG
ODS code K82049
3.1 km
KINGSWOOD SURGERY
HOLLIS ROAD, TOTTERIDGE, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP13 7UN
ODS code K82022
3.5 km
HIGHFIELD SURGERY
HIGHFIELD WAY, HAZLEMERE, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP15 7UW
ODS code K82012
4.5 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
- 0.0 miles
Desborough Park Road
BCT · High Wycombe
- 0.1 miles
Desborough Park Road
BCT · High Wycombe
- 0.2 miles
White Close
BCT · High Wycombe
- 0.2 miles
White Close
BCT · High Wycombe
- 0.2 miles
Middlebrook Road
BCT · High Wycombe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Buckinghamshire 044C, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,616 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
3,600 published events cover 12 months, averaging 300 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,316 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.