Schools
51 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 6 secondary schools. Redbourn Park School is the nearest published school at 377 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP2 6QJ
Grovehill · Dacorum · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Grovehill
- Local authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead
- Postcode district
- HP2
- Postcode sector
- HP2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP2 6QJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP2
- Postcode sector
- HP2 6
- Latitude
- 51.776195
- Longitude
- -0.459066
- British National Grid easting
- 506,408
- British National Grid northing
- 209,736
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Dacorum · E07000096
- Electoral ward
- Grovehill · E05004704
- Parish or community
- E43000076
- Westminster constituency
- Hemel Hempstead · E14001278
- Output area
- E00118855
- Lower layer super output area
- Dacorum 007D · E01023396
- Middle layer super output area
- Dacorum 007 · E02004862
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 HP2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 51
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 6
- 377 m
Redbourn Park School
Other independent special school
- 512 m
Aycliffe Drive Primary School
Community school
- 706 m
Haywood Grove School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,794
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 704
- Anti social behaviour 328
- Shoplifting 126
- Criminal damage and arson 120
- Other theft 108
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HP2 6 residents
- 7,919
Age bands in HP2 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.1%
1,638 residents
785 residents
2,263 residents
2,001 residents
1,376 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
GROVE HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
KILBRIDE COURT, GROVEHILL, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 6AD
ODS code E82050
463 m
WOODHALL FARM MEDICAL CTR
VALLEY GREEN, SHENLEY ROAD, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 7RJ
ODS code E82070
1.6 km
EVEREST HOUSE SURGERY
EVEREST HOUSE, EVEREST WAY, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 4HY
ODS code E82051
2.4 km
FERNVILLE SURGERY
MIDLAND ROAD, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 5BL
ODS code E82022
2.6 km
PARKWOOD SURGERY
PARKWOOD DRIVE SURGERY, PARKWOOD DRIVE, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP1 2LD
ODS code E82091
3.4 km
BENNETTS END SURGERY
GATECROFT, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 9LY
ODS code E82032
4.0 km
LINCOLN HOUSE SURGERY
163 LONDON ROAD, APSLEY, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 9SQ
ODS code E82009
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Claymore
BCT · Grovehill
- 0.1 miles
Claymore
BCT · Grovehill
- 0.2 miles
Turnpike Green
BCT · Grovehill
- 0.2 miles
Avon Square
BCT · Grovehill
- 0.2 miles
Dunlin Road
BCT · Grovehill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dacorum 007D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,132 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
1,794 published events cover 12 months, averaging 149.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 704 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.