Schools
41 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 6 secondary schools. Chiltern Wood School is the nearest published school at 614 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP12 3SD
Abbey · Buckinghamshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- High Wycombe
- Ward
- Abbey
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe
- Postcode district
- HP12
- Postcode sector
- HP12 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP12 3SD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP12
- Postcode sector
- HP12 3
- Latitude
- 51.620225
- Longitude
- -0.781920
- British National Grid easting
- 484,424
- British National Grid northing
- 191,969
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Buckinghamshire · E06000060
- Electoral ward
- Abbey · E05015927
- Parish or community
- E43000275
- Westminster constituency
- Wycombe · E14001600
- Output area
- E00090010
- Lower layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 049E · E01017840
- Middle layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 049 · E02003710
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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Unit 5, Halifax Road, Cressex Business Park, High Wycombe, HP12 3SD | 4 May 2020 | £900,000 |
| Unit 2, Halifax Road, Cressex Business Park, High Wycombe, HP12 3SD | 29 July 2015 | £2,780,000 |
| Unit 5, Halifax Road, Cressex Business Park, High Wycombe, HP12 3SD | 1 September 2014 | £680,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 41
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 6
- 614 m
Chiltern Wood School
Community special school
- 618 m
Kite Ridge School
Pupil referral unit
- 624 m
Castlefield School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,997
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 655
- Shoplifting 329
- Anti social behaviour 205
- Other theft 176
- Vehicle crime 156
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 4.0
- HP12 3 residents
- 12,821
1 female, 3 male
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
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HP12 3 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+
- 100%
- 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
- 100%
- 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
9
within 5 km
CRESSEX HEALTH CENTRE
CORONATION ROAD, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP12 3PP
ODS code K82603
408 m
DESBOROUGH SURGERY
65 DESBOROUGH AVENUE, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP11 2SD
ODS code K82017
1.9 km
TOWER HOUSE SURGERY
169 WEST WYCOMBE ROAD, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP12 3AF
ODS code K82010
2.0 km
RIVERSIDE SURGERY
GEORGE STREET, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP11 2RZ
ODS code K82036
2.0 km
WYE VALLEY SURGERY
WYCOMBE HOSPITAL, QUEEN ALEXANDRA ROAD, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP11 2TT
ODS code K82030
2.1 km
CHILTERN HOUSE MED CENTRE
45-47 TEMPLE END, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP13 5DN
ODS code K82020
2.5 km
PRIORY SURGERY
24-26 PRIORY AVENUE, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP13 6SH
ODS code K82053
2.6 km
CARRINGTON HOUSE SURGERY
19 PRIORY ROAD, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP13 6SL
ODS code K82044
2.6 km
KINGSWOOD SURGERY
HOLLIS ROAD, TOTTERIDGE, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP13 7UN
ODS code K82022
4.4 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
- 0.1 miles
Squirrel Lane
BCT · High Wycombe
- 0.1 miles
Squirrel Lane
BCT · High Wycombe
- 0.2 miles
Halifax Road
BCT · Cressex
- 0.2 miles
Halifax Road
BCT · Cressex
- 0.2 miles
The Jolly Bodger PH
BCT · Desborough Castle
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Buckinghamshire 049E, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,349 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
1,997 published events cover 12 months, averaging 166.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 655 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.