Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 5 secondary schools. Elangeni School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP5 1TR
Chesham South · Buckinghamshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 1TR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- 1 December 2009
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP5
- Postcode sector
- HP5 1
- Latitude
- 51.684770
- Longitude
- -0.579461
- British National Grid easting
- 498,300
- British National Grid northing
- 199,400
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
- E00089781
- Lower layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 030D · E01017793
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.2 km
Elangeni School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Chestnut Lane School
Community school
- 1.4 km
Chesham Bois Church of England School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 379
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 172
- Anti social behaviour 40
- Burglary 31
- Drugs 26
- Criminal damage and arson 26
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
AMERSHAM HEALTH CENTRE
KING GEORGE V ROAD, AMERSHAM ON THE HILL, AMERSHAM, HP6 5AY
ODS code K82004
2.0 km
LITTLE CHALFONT SURGERY
200 WHITE LION ROAD, LITTLE CHALFONT, AMERSHAM, HP7 9NU
ODS code K82621
2.1 km
WATER MEADOW SURGERY
31A RED LION STREET, CHESHAM, HP5 1ET
ODS code K82037
3.1 km
RECTORY MEADOW SURGERY
SCHOOL LANE, AMERSHAM, HP7 0HG
ODS code K82001
3.2 km
GLADSTONE ROAD SURGERY
260-290 BERKHAMPSTEAD ROAD, CHESHAM, HP5 3EZ
ODS code K82058
3.7 km
THE NEW SURGERY CHESHAM
THE NEW SURGERY, CHESS MEDICAL CENTRE, CHESHAM, HP5 3EZ
ODS code K82024
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Cherry Orchard
BCT · Amersham
- 0.7 miles
Cherry Orchard
BCT · Amersham
- 0.7 miles
Grove Road
BCT · Amersham
- 0.7 miles
Roundwood Road
BCT · Amersham
- 0.8 miles
Garden End
BCT · Amersham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Buckinghamshire 030D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,884 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
379 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 172 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.