Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. Chenies School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP3 0GU
Bovingdon, Flaunden and Chipperfield · Dacorum · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead
- Postcode district
- HP3
- Postcode sector
- HP3 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP3 0GU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP3
- Postcode sector
- HP3 0
- Latitude
- 51.697133
- Longitude
- -0.532540
- British National Grid easting
- 501,516
- British National Grid northing
- 200,839
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Dacorum · E07000096
- Electoral ward
- Bovingdon, Flaunden and Chipperfield · E05004700
- Parish or community
- E04004701
- Westminster constituency
- Hemel Hempstead · E14001278
- Output area
- E00118765
- Lower layer super output area
- Dacorum 021E · E01023377
- Middle layer super output area
- Dacorum 021 · E02004876
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 HP3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 2.5 km
Chenies School
Academy converter
- 2.9 km
St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Chipperfield
Voluntary aided school
- 2.9 km
Bovingdon Primary Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 33
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 10
- Burglary 7
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Vehicle crime 3
- Other theft 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HP3 0 residents
- 9,007
Age bands in HP3 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.2%
1,377 residents
851 residents
2,552 residents
2,420 residents
1,713 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.
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
2
within 5 km
ARCHWAY SURGERY
52 HIGH STREET, BOVINGDON, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 0HJ
ODS code E82643
2.9 km
LITTLE CHALFONT SURGERY
200 WHITE LION ROAD, LITTLE CHALFONT, AMERSHAM, HP7 9NU
ODS code K82621
4.0 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
Flaunden Hill
BCT · Flaunden
- 0.1 miles
Flaunden Hill
BCT · Flaunden
- 0.1 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Flaunden
- 0.3 miles
Bricklayers Arms PH
BCT · Hogpits Bottom
- 0.3 miles
Bricklayers Arms PH
BCT · Hogpits Bottom
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dacorum 021E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,705 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
33 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.