Schools
51 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 6 secondary schools. Haywood Grove School is the nearest published school at 221 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP2 7BD
Grovehill · Dacorum · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Grovehill
- Local authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead
- Postcode district
- HP2
- Postcode sector
- HP2 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP2 7BD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2005
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP2
- Postcode sector
- HP2 7
- Latitude
- 51.772329
- Longitude
- -0.450183
- British National Grid easting
- 507,030
- British National Grid northing
- 209,319
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
- E00118850
- Lower layer super output area
- Dacorum 007C · E01023395
- 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
- 35
- Secondary
- 6
- 221 m
Haywood Grove School
Community special school
- 221 m
Maple Grove Primary School
Community school
- 418 m
Redbourn Park School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,281
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 919
- Anti social behaviour 391
- Shoplifting 162
- Criminal damage and arson 159
- Other theft 139
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- HP2 7 residents
- 8,442
2 female, 1 male
Age bands in HP2 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.5%
2,202 residents
875 residents
3,230 residents
2,014 residents
978 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HP2 7 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
7
within 5 km
GROVE HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
KILBRIDE COURT, GROVEHILL, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 6AD
ODS code E82050
503 m
WOODHALL FARM MEDICAL CTR
VALLEY GREEN, SHENLEY ROAD, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 7RJ
ODS code E82070
1.3 km
EVEREST HOUSE SURGERY
EVEREST HOUSE, EVEREST WAY, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 4HY
ODS code E82051
1.9 km
FERNVILLE SURGERY
MIDLAND ROAD, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 5BL
ODS code E82022
2.5 km
BENNETTS END SURGERY
GATECROFT, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 9LY
ODS code E82032
3.5 km
PARKWOOD SURGERY
PARKWOOD DRIVE SURGERY, PARKWOOD DRIVE, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP1 2LD
ODS code E82091
3.6 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Dawley Court
BCT · Grovehill
- 0.1 miles
Dawley Court
BCT · Grovehill
- 0.1 miles
St Agnells Lane
BCT · Cupid Green
- 0.1 miles
St Agnells Lane
BCT · Cupid Green
- 0.1 miles
Eastbrook Schools
BCT · Grovehill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dacorum 007C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,925 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 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
2,281 published events cover 12 months, averaging 190.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 919 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.