Property market
The five-year median is £340,000 from 1 recorded sale in HP5 1BJ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Buckinghamshire is £490,508 in June 2026, up 4.3% year on year.
HP5 1BJ
Chesham South · Buckinghamshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chesham
- Ward
- Chesham South
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham
- Postcode district
- HP5
- Postcode sector
- HP5 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP5 1BJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2017
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP5
- Postcode sector
- HP5 1
- Latitude
- 51.704581
- Longitude
- -0.612690
- British National Grid easting
- 495,961
- British National Grid northing
- 201,559
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Buckinghamshire · E06000060
- Electoral ward
- Chesham South · E05015946
- Parish or community
- E04001569
- Westminster constituency
- Chesham and Amersham · E14001162
- Output area
- E00089769
- Lower layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 030C · E01017792
- Middle layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 030 · E02003679
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 HP5
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 17, High Street, Chesham, HP5 1BJ | 9 March 2023 | £340,000 |
| 17, High Street, Chesham, HP5 1BJ | 7 June 2019 | £30,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 4
- 410 m
Thomas Harding Junior School
Academy converter
- 851 m
Chiltern Hills Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 892 m
Elmtree Infant and Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,455
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 600
- Anti social behaviour 178
- Shoplifting 117
- Criminal damage and arson 114
- Public order 105
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HP5 1 residents
- 6,839
Age bands in HP5 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.1%
1,220 residents
635 residents
1,852 residents
1,936 residents
1,335 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
WATER MEADOW SURGERY
31A RED LION STREET, CHESHAM, HP5 1ET
ODS code K82037
223 m
GLADSTONE ROAD SURGERY
260-290 BERKHAMPSTEAD ROAD, CHESHAM, HP5 3EZ
ODS code K82058
1.0 km
THE NEW SURGERY CHESHAM
THE NEW SURGERY, CHESS MEDICAL CENTRE, CHESHAM, HP5 3EZ
ODS code K82024
1.0 km
AMERSHAM HEALTH CENTRE
KING GEORGE V ROAD, AMERSHAM ON THE HILL, AMERSHAM, HP6 5AY
ODS code K82004
3.3 km
RECTORY MEADOW SURGERY
SCHOOL LANE, AMERSHAM, HP7 0HG
ODS code K82001
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Chesham Underground Station
PLT · Chesham
- 0.1 miles
Chesham Underground Station
MET · Chesham
- 0.1 miles
Chesham Underground Station
TMU · Chesham
- 0.1 miles
Underground Station
BCT · Chesham
- 0.1 miles
Broadway
BCT · Chesham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Buckinghamshire 030C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,687 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 4 secondary schools. Thomas Harding Junior School is the nearest published school at 410 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,455 published events cover 12 months, averaging 121.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 600 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.