Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 1 secondary schools. Egerton-Rothesay School is the nearest published school at 104 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP4 3UP
Northchurch · Dacorum · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Northchurch
- Local authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted
- Postcode district
- HP4
- Postcode sector
- HP4 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP4 3UP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1998
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP4
- Postcode sector
- HP4 3
- Latitude
- 51.761331
- Longitude
- -0.590100
- British National Grid easting
- 497,400
- British National Grid northing
- 207,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Dacorum · E07000096
- Electoral ward
- Northchurch · E05004710
- Parish or community
- E04004708
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00118954
- Lower layer super output area
- Dacorum 006D · E01023417
- Middle layer super output area
- Dacorum 006 · E02004861
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
- 18
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 1
- 104 m
Egerton-Rothesay School
Other independent school
- 666 m
Westfield Primary School
Community school
- 668 m
Greenway Primary and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 594
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 192
- Anti social behaviour 115
- Shoplifting 63
- Vehicle crime 51
- Burglary 45
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HP4 3 residents
- 10,305
Age bands in HP4 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.4%
2,140 residents
933 residents
2,345 residents
3,172 residents
2,201 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
GOSSOMS END SURGERY
VICTORY ROAD, BERKHAMSTED, HP4 1DL
ODS code E82652
918 m
THE MANOR STREET SURGERY
ANNANDALE HSE, MANOR STREET, BERKHAMSTED, HP4 2DL
ODS code E82094
2.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Marlin Close
BCT · Shootersway
- 0.3 miles
Ridgeway
BCT · Shootersway
- 0.3 miles
Marlin Close
BCT · Shootersway
- 0.3 miles
Ridgeway
BCT · Shootersway
- 0.4 miles
Chaucer Close
BCT · Northchurch
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dacorum 006D, 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
25,234 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
594 published events cover 12 months, averaging 49.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 192 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.