Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 5 secondary schools. The Beacon School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP6 5SR
Amersham & Chesham Bois · Buckinghamshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham
- Postcode district
- HP6
- Postcode sector
- HP6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP6 5SR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- 1 December 1986
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP6
- Postcode sector
- HP6 5
- Latitude
- 51.684489
- Longitude
- -0.631546
- British National Grid easting
- 494,700
- British National Grid northing
- 199,300
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
- E04001563
- Westminster constituency
- Chesham and Amersham · E14001162
- Output area
- E00089628
- Lower layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 032F · E01017765
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.2 km
The Beacon School
Other independent school
- 1.3 km
Heatherton School
Other independent school
- 1.3 km
Our Lady's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 78
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 32
- Burglary 13
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Anti social behaviour 7
- Public order 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HP6 5 residents
- 5,628
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
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
RECTORY MEADOW SURGERY
SCHOOL LANE, AMERSHAM, HP7 0HG
ODS code K82001
2.0 km
AMERSHAM HEALTH CENTRE
KING GEORGE V ROAD, AMERSHAM ON THE HILL, AMERSHAM, HP6 5AY
ODS code K82004
2.2 km
WATER MEADOW SURGERY
31A RED LION STREET, CHESHAM, HP5 1ET
ODS code K82037
2.4 km
GLADSTONE ROAD SURGERY
260-290 BERKHAMPSTEAD ROAD, CHESHAM, HP5 3EZ
ODS code K82058
3.6 km
THE NEW SURGERY CHESHAM
THE NEW SURGERY, CHESS MEDICAL CENTRE, CHESHAM, HP5 3EZ
ODS code K82024
3.6 km
LITTLE CHALFONT SURGERY
200 WHITE LION ROAD, LITTLE CHALFONT, AMERSHAM, HP7 9NU
ODS code K82621
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Copperkins Lane
BCT · Chesham Bois
- 0.5 miles
Copperkins Lane
BCT · Chesham Bois
- 0.6 miles
Keepers Lane
BCT · Hyde Heath
- 0.7 miles
Bois Avenue
BCT · Chesham Bois
- 0.7 miles
Bois Avenue
BCT · Chesham Bois
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Buckinghamshire 032F, 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
32,755 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
78 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 32 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.