Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 5 secondary schools. The Beacon School is the nearest published school at 508 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP6 5LB
Amersham & Chesham Bois · Buckinghamshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Amersham
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham
- Postcode district
- HP6
- Postcode sector
- HP6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP6 5LB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP6
- Postcode sector
- HP6 5
- Latitude
- 51.685698
- Longitude
- -0.608176
- British National Grid easting
- 496,313
- British National Grid northing
- 199,465
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Buckinghamshire · E06000060
- Electoral ward
- Amersham & Chesham Bois · E05015928
- Parish or community
- E04001570
- Westminster constituency
- Chesham and Amersham · E14001162
- Output area
- E00089637
- Lower layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 032E · E01017764
- Middle layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 032 · E02003681
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 HP6
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Hilbury Close, Amersham, HP6 5LB | 31 January 2020 | £999,950 |
| The Jays, Hilbury Close, Amersham, HP6 5LB | 31 January 2020 | £795,000 |
| 9, Hilbury Close, Amersham, HP6 5LB | 15 December 2017 | £995,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 5
- 508 m
The Beacon School
Other independent school
- 520 m
Heatherton School
Other independent school
- 679 m
Our Lady's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 653
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 257
- Anti social behaviour 77
- Public order 62
- Other theft 49
- Criminal damage and arson 48
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 22
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- HP6 5 residents
- 5,628
10 female, 12 male
Age bands in HP6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.2%
1,026 residents
573 residents
1,160 residents
1,675 residents
1,490 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HP6 5 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
6
within 5 km
AMERSHAM HEALTH CENTRE
KING GEORGE V ROAD, AMERSHAM ON THE HILL, AMERSHAM, HP6 5AY
ODS code K82004
1.2 km
WATER MEADOW SURGERY
31A RED LION STREET, CHESHAM, HP5 1ET
ODS code K82037
1.9 km
RECTORY MEADOW SURGERY
SCHOOL LANE, AMERSHAM, HP7 0HG
ODS code K82001
2.0 km
GLADSTONE ROAD SURGERY
260-290 BERKHAMPSTEAD ROAD, CHESHAM, HP5 3EZ
ODS code K82058
3.1 km
THE NEW SURGERY CHESHAM
THE NEW SURGERY, CHESS MEDICAL CENTRE, CHESHAM, HP5 3EZ
ODS code K82024
3.1 km
LITTLE CHALFONT SURGERY
200 WHITE LION ROAD, LITTLE CHALFONT, AMERSHAM, HP7 9NU
ODS code K82621
3.5 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Long Park
BCT · Chesham Bois
- 0.2 miles
Long Park
BCT · Chesham Bois
- 0.2 miles
North Road
BCT · Chesham Bois
- 0.2 miles
North Road
BCT · Chesham Bois
- 0.2 miles
Amersham Road
BCT · Chesham Bois
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Buckinghamshire 032E, 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
33,450 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
- 5 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
653 published events cover 12 months, averaging 54.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 257 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.