Schools
40 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 5 secondary schools. Westbrook Hay is the nearest published school at 328 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP3 0XT
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 0XT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- 1 December 2014
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP3
- Postcode sector
- HP3 0
- Latitude
- 51.738138
- Longitude
- -0.520393
- British National Grid easting
- 502,263
- British National Grid northing
- 205,416
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
- E04004698
- Westminster constituency
- Hemel Hempstead · E14001278
- Output area
- E00118746
- 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
- 40
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 5
- 328 m
Westbrook Hay
Other independent school
- 1.5 km
Roman Fields Academy
Academy alternative provision converter
- 1.8 km
Pixies Hill Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 124
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 39
- Anti social behaviour 24
- Other theft 11
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Vehicle crime 9
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.
GP practices
7
within 5 km straight-line
ARCHWAY SURGERY
52 HIGH STREET, BOVINGDON, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 0HJ
ODS code E82643
1.9 km
PARKWOOD SURGERY
PARKWOOD DRIVE SURGERY, PARKWOOD DRIVE, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP1 2LD
ODS code E82091
2.6 km
LINCOLN HOUSE SURGERY
163 LONDON ROAD, APSLEY, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 9SQ
ODS code E82009
3.5 km
THE MANOR STREET SURGERY
ANNANDALE HSE, MANOR STREET, BERKHAMSTED, HP4 2DL
ODS code E82094
3.6 km
FERNVILLE SURGERY
MIDLAND ROAD, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 5BL
ODS code E82022
3.8 km
BENNETTS END SURGERY
GATECROFT, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 9LY
ODS code E82032
4.9 km
GOSSOMS END SURGERY
VICTORY ROAD, BERKHAMSTED, HP4 1DL
ODS code E82652
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Little Hay Golf Course
BCT · Bovingdon
- 0.5 miles
Bury Rise
BCT · Bovingdon
- 0.5 miles
Bury Rise
BCT · Bovingdon
- 0.5 miles
Watermill Hotel
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.6 miles
Watermill Hotel
BCT · Bourne End
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
124 published events cover 12 months, averaging 10.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 39 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.