Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 2 secondary schools. Ivingswood Academy is the nearest published school at 303 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP5 2LE
Chesham North · Buckinghamshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chesham
- Ward
- Chesham North
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham
- Postcode district
- HP5
- Postcode sector
- HP5 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP5 2LE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP5
- Postcode sector
- HP5 2
- Latitude
- 51.721961
- Longitude
- -0.618673
- British National Grid easting
- 495,511
- British National Grid northing
- 203,484
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Buckinghamshire · E06000060
- Electoral ward
- Chesham North · E05015945
- Parish or community
- E04001569
- Westminster constituency
- Chesham and Amersham · E14001162
- Output area
- E00089765
- Lower layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 027D · E01017789
- Middle layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 027 · E02003677
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
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 183, Great Hivings, Chesham, HP5 2LE | 19 October 2017 | £350,000 |
| 194, Great Hivings, Chesham, HP5 2LE | 14 May 2014 | £190,000 |
| 183, Great Hivings, Chesham, HP5 2LE | 29 September 2009 | £240,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 2
- 303 m
Ivingswood Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.1 km
Elmtree Infant and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Newtown School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,031
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 447
- Anti social behaviour 121
- Other theft 87
- Criminal damage and arson 85
- Vehicle crime 80
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 48
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- HP5 2 residents
- 12,419
29 female, 19 male
Age bands in HP5 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.2%
2,358 residents
1,354 residents
3,041 residents
3,341 residents
2,244 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HP5 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
3
within 5 km
GLADSTONE ROAD SURGERY
260-290 BERKHAMPSTEAD ROAD, CHESHAM, HP5 3EZ
ODS code K82058
1.2 km
THE NEW SURGERY CHESHAM
THE NEW SURGERY, CHESS MEDICAL CENTRE, CHESHAM, HP5 3EZ
ODS code K82024
1.2 km
WATER MEADOW SURGERY
31A RED LION STREET, CHESHAM, HP5 1ET
ODS code K82037
2.2 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Mount Nugent
BCT · Great Hivings
- 0.0 miles
Hope Church
BCT · Chesham
- 0.1 miles
Mount Nugent
BCT · Great Hivings
- 0.1 miles
Hope Church
BCT · Chesham
- 0.2 miles
Greenway
BCT · Chesham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Buckinghamshire 027D, 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
15,946 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,031 published events cover 12 months, averaging 85.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 447 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.