Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 2 secondary schools. Prestwood Infant School is the nearest published school at 452 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP16 9BU
The Missendens · Buckinghamshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- The Missendens
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire
- Postcode district
- HP16
- Postcode sector
- HP16 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP16 9BU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1983
- Terminated
- 1 February 2007
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP16
- Postcode sector
- HP16 9
- Latitude
- 51.701206
- Longitude
- -0.733496
- British National Grid easting
- 487,620
- British National Grid northing
- 201,032
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Buckinghamshire · E06000060
- Electoral ward
- The Missendens · E05015970
- Parish or community
- E04001573
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire · E14001360
- Output area
- E00089753
- Lower layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 031D · E01017786
- Middle layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 031 · E02003680
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 HP16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 2
- 452 m
Prestwood Infant School
Academy converter
- 528 m
Prestwood Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Gateway School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 226
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 96
- Criminal damage and arson 23
- Anti social behaviour 20
- Public order 19
- Vehicle crime 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HP16 9 residents
- 4,722
Age bands in HP16 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.4%
752 residents
448 residents
731 residents
1,529 residents
1,181 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
THE JOHN HAMPDEN SURGERY
97 HIGH STREET, PRESTWOOD, GREAT MISSENDEN, HP16 9EU
ODS code K82035
457 m
PROSPECT HOUSE SURGERY
PROSPECT HOUSE, 108 HIGH STREET, GREAT MISSENDEN, HP16 0BG
ODS code K82618
1.9 km
HUGHENDEN VALLEY SURGERY
VALLEY ROAD, HUGHENDEN VALLEY, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP14 4LG
ODS code K82049
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Traveller's Rest PH
BCT · Prestwood
- 0.1 miles
The Traveller's Rest PH
BCT · Prestwood
- 0.2 miles
Blacksmith Lane
BCT · Prestwood
- 0.2 miles
The Green Man PH
BCT · Prestwood
- 0.2 miles
Blacksmith Lane
BCT · Prestwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Buckinghamshire 031D, 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
30,912 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
226 published events cover 12 months, averaging 18.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 96 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.