Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. Berkhamsted School is the nearest published school at 528 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP4 1HD
Berkhamsted Castle · Dacorum · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Berkhamsted Castle
- Local authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted
- Postcode district
- HP4
- Postcode sector
- HP4 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP4 1HD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2018
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP4
- Postcode sector
- HP4 1
- Latitude
- 51.764093
- Longitude
- -0.561337
- British National Grid easting
- 499,379
- British National Grid northing
- 208,246
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Dacorum · E07000096
- Electoral ward
- Berkhamsted Castle · E05004697
- Parish or community
- E04004697
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00169637
- Lower layer super output area
- Dacorum 009B · E01023362
- Middle layer super output area
- Dacorum 009 · E02004864
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 HP4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 528 m
Berkhamsted School
Other independent school
- 608 m
Victoria Church of England Infant and Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
- 889 m
Swing Gate Infant School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 917
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 286
- Anti social behaviour 164
- Shoplifting 102
- Other theft 63
- Criminal damage and arson 63
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HP4 1 residents
- 6,397
Age bands in HP4 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 22%
1,174 residents
499 residents
1,223 residents
1,804 residents
1,329 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 MANOR STREET SURGERY
ANNANDALE HSE, MANOR STREET, BERKHAMSTED, HP4 2DL
ODS code E82094
509 m
GOSSOMS END SURGERY
VICTORY ROAD, BERKHAMSTED, HP4 1DL
ODS code E82652
1.1 km
PARKWOOD SURGERY
PARKWOOD DRIVE SURGERY, PARKWOOD DRIVE, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP1 2LD
ODS code E82091
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bridgewater Road
BCT · Berkhamsted
- 0.0 miles
Brownlow Road
BCT · Berkhamsted
- 0.0 miles
Bridgewater Road
BCT · Berkhamsted
- 0.0 miles
Brownlow Road
BCT · Berkhamsted
- 0.1 miles
Berkhamsted Rail Station
RSE · Berkhamsted
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dacorum 009B, 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
33,523 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
917 published events cover 12 months, averaging 76.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 286 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.