Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Thornton College is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK17 0HJ
Horwood · Buckinghamshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Horwood
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley
- Postcode district
- MK17
- Postcode sector
- MK17 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK17 0HJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK17
- Postcode sector
- MK17 0
- Latitude
- 52.019678
- Longitude
- -0.906561
- British National Grid easting
- 475,129
- British National Grid northing
- 236,258
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Buckinghamshire · E06000060
- Electoral ward
- Horwood · E05015956
- Parish or community
- E04001539
- Westminster constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley · E14001141
- Output area
- E00089269
- Lower layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 001D · E01033952
- Middle layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 001 · E02003652
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 MK17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 0 m
Thornton College
Other independent school
- 2.1 km
Akeley Wood Junior School
Other independent school
- 2.7 km
Thornborough Infant School
Community school
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 46
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- MK17 0 residents
- 6,384
46 female, 0 male
Age bands in MK17 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.4%
1,007 residents
607 residents
1,185 residents
2,124 residents
1,503 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider MK17 0 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Main Street
BCT · Thornton
- 1.4 miles
The Bell
BCT · Beachampton
- 1.7 miles
Church End
BCT · Leckhampstead
- 1.7 miles
Church End
BCT · Leckhampstead
- 1.7 miles
Thornhill
BCT · Thornborough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Buckinghamshire 001D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,945 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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.