Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Berkhamsted School is the nearest published school at 128 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP4 2YU
Berkhamsted East · Dacorum · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Berkhamsted East
- Local authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted
- Postcode district
- HP4
- Postcode sector
- HP4 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP4 2YU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- 1 October 2000
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP4
- Postcode sector
- HP4 2
- Latitude
- 51.760116
- Longitude
- -0.564057
- British National Grid easting
- 499,200
- British National Grid northing
- 207,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Dacorum · E07000096
- Electoral ward
- Berkhamsted East · E05004698
- Parish or community
- E04004697
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00118715
- Lower layer super output area
- Dacorum 014A · E01023365
- Middle layer super output area
- Dacorum 014 · E02004869
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
- 20
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 128 m
Berkhamsted School
Other independent school
- 128 m
Victoria Church of England Infant and Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
- 703 m
Swing Gate Infant School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 957
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 297
- Anti social behaviour 180
- Shoplifting 102
- Other theft 67
- Vehicle crime 67
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HP4 2 residents
- 8,109
Age bands in HP4 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.4%
1,387 residents
641 residents
1,942 residents
2,333 residents
1,716 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
THE MANOR STREET SURGERY
ANNANDALE HSE, MANOR STREET, BERKHAMSTED, HP4 2DL
ODS code E82094
356 m
GOSSOMS END SURGERY
VICTORY ROAD, BERKHAMSTED, HP4 1DL
ODS code E82652
1.0 km
ARCHWAY SURGERY
52 HIGH STREET, BOVINGDON, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 0HJ
ODS code E82643
4.7 km
PARKWOOD SURGERY
PARKWOOD DRIVE SURGERY, PARKWOOD DRIVE, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP1 2LD
ODS code E82091
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Town Hall
BCT · Berkhamsted
- 0.0 miles
Town Hall
BCT · Berkhamsted
- 0.1 miles
High Street
BCT · Berkhamsted
- 0.1 miles
Kings Road
BCT · Berkhamsted
- 0.1 miles
Collegrate School
BCT · Berkhamsted
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dacorum 014A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,110 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
957 published events cover 12 months, averaging 79.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 297 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.