Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 4 secondary schools. Newtown School is the nearest published school at 414 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP5 3AL
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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP5 3AL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP5
- Postcode sector
- HP5 3
- Latitude
- 51.710268
- Longitude
- -0.606162
- British National Grid easting
- 496,400
- British National Grid northing
- 202,200
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
- E00089668
- Lower layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 028A · E01017769
- Middle layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 028 · E02003678
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
- 29
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 4
- 414 m
Newtown School
Community school
- 442 m
Chesham Grammar School
Academy converter
- 489 m
Heritage House School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,527
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 621
- Anti social behaviour 182
- Shoplifting 117
- Other theft 116
- Criminal damage and arson 114
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HP5 3 residents
- 7,749
Age bands in HP5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.9%
1,469 residents
770 residents
1,995 residents
2,150 residents
1,391 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
GLADSTONE ROAD SURGERY
260-290 BERKHAMPSTEAD ROAD, CHESHAM, HP5 3EZ
ODS code K82058
364 m
THE NEW SURGERY CHESHAM
THE NEW SURGERY, CHESS MEDICAL CENTRE, CHESHAM, HP5 3EZ
ODS code K82024
364 m
WATER MEADOW SURGERY
31A RED LION STREET, CHESHAM, HP5 1ET
ODS code K82037
978 m
AMERSHAM HEALTH CENTRE
KING GEORGE V ROAD, AMERSHAM ON THE HILL, AMERSHAM, HP6 5AY
ODS code K82004
3.9 km
RECTORY MEADOW SURGERY
SCHOOL LANE, AMERSHAM, HP7 0HG
ODS code K82001
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Eskdale Avenue
BCT · Chesham
- 0.1 miles
Eskdale Avenue
BCT · Chesham
- 0.1 miles
The Jolly Sportsman PH
BCT · Chesham
- 0.1 miles
The Jolly Sportsman PH
BCT · Chesham
- 0.2 miles
Hilltop Allotments
BCT · Chesham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Buckinghamshire 028A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,844 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
1,527 published events cover 12 months, averaging 127.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 621 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.