Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 4 secondary schools. Amersham School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HP8 4LU
Amersham & Chesham Bois · Buckinghamshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham
- Postcode district
- HP8
- Postcode sector
- HP8 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HP8 4LU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- HP
- Postcode district
- HP8
- Postcode sector
- HP8 4
- Latitude
- 51.650862
- Longitude
- -0.597579
- British National Grid easting
- 497,120
- British National Grid northing
- 195,605
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
- E00089534
- Lower layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 034C · E01017744
- Middle layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 034 · E02003682
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 HP8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 4
- 1.9 km
Amersham School
Academy converter
- 2.3 km
Stony Dean School
Community special school
- 2.3 km
Coleshill Church of England Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 25
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Public order 5
- Vehicle crime 5
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Other theft 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HP8 4 residents
- 6,934
Age bands in HP8 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.1%
1,209 residents
732 residents
1,178 residents
2,216 residents
1,603 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
RECTORY MEADOW SURGERY
SCHOOL LANE, AMERSHAM, HP7 0HG
ODS code K82001
2.5 km
AMERSHAM HEALTH CENTRE
KING GEORGE V ROAD, AMERSHAM ON THE HILL, AMERSHAM, HP6 5AY
ODS code K82004
2.7 km
LITTLE CHALFONT SURGERY
200 WHITE LION ROAD, LITTLE CHALFONT, AMERSHAM, HP7 9NU
ODS code K82621
2.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Finch Lane
BCT · Amersham
- 0.6 miles
Finch Lane
BCT · Amersham
- 0.7 miles
Bramble Lane
BCT · Amersham
- 0.7 miles
Cokes Lane
BCT · Amersham
- 0.7 miles
Bramble Lane
BCT · Amersham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Buckinghamshire 034C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,173 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
25 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Public order with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.