Schools
183 open schools are in scope, including 95 primary and 30 secondary schools. The Compton School is the nearest published school at 288 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
N12 0PW
Woodhouse · Barnet · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Woodhouse
- Local authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Finchley and Golders Green
- Postcode district
- N12
- Postcode sector
- N12 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- N12 0PW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- N
- Postcode district
- N12
- Postcode sector
- N12 0
- Latitude
- 51.607035
- Longitude
- -0.164011
- British National Grid easting
- 527,236
- British National Grid northing
- 191,396
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Barnet · E09000003
- Electoral ward
- Woodhouse · E05013651
- Parish or community
- E43000193
- Westminster constituency
- Finchley and Golders Green · E14001238
- Output area
- E00001552
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnet 022F · E01000315
- Middle layer super output area
- Barnet 022 · E02000045
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 N12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 183
- Primary
- 95
- Secondary
- 30
- 288 m
The Compton School
Academy converter
- 402 m
Summerside Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 594 m
Imperial College London Mathematics School
Free schools 16 to 19
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,605
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,237
- Anti social behaviour 744
- Vehicle crime 672
- Other theft 332
- Shoplifting 326
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 25
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- N12 0 residents
- 8,657
15 female, 10 male
Age bands in N12 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.2%
1,558 residents
987 residents
2,670 residents
2,329 residents
1,351 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider N12 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.
GP practices
59
within 5 km
FRIERN BARNET MEDICAL CENTRE
15-16 ST JOHNS VILLAS, FRIERN BARNET ROAD, LONDON, N11 3BU
ODS code E83045
892 m
SQUIRES LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 SQUIRES LANE, FINCHLEY, LONDON, N3 2AU
ODS code E83007
911 m
HOMELESS ACTION IN BARNET
36B WOODHOUSE ROAD, NORTH FINCHLEY, LONDON, N12 0RG
ODS code E83666
920 m
BARNET FEDERATED GPS LIMITED
311 BALLARDS LANE, FINCHLEY, LONDON, N12 8LY
ODS code Y05258
1.2 km
COLNEY HATCH LANE SURGERY
192 COLNEY HATCH LANE, MUSWELL HILL, LONDON, N10 1ET
ODS code E83034
1.4 km
CORNWALL HOUSE SURGERY
TORRINGTON PARK HEALTH CENTRE, 16 TORRINGTON PARK, LONDON, N12 9SS
ODS code E83013
1.4 km
THE SPEEDWELL PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, TORRINGTON PARK, NORTH FINCHLEY, LONDON, N12 9SS
ODS code E83010
1.4 km
TORRINGTON PARK GROUP PRACTICE
TORRINGTON PARK HEALTH CENTRE, 16 TORRINGTON PARK, NORTH FINCHLEY, LONDON, N12 9SS
ODS code E83021
1.4 km
WOODLANDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
54 LEOPOLD ROAD, EAST FINCHLEY, LONDON, N2 8BG
ODS code Y00316
1.6 km
WENTWORTH GROUP PRACTICE - FINCHLEY
38 WENTWORTH AVENUE, FINCHLEY, LONDON, N3 1YL
ODS code E83035
1.7 km
ROSEMARY SURGERY
2 ROSEMARY AVENUE, FINCHLEY, LONDON, N3 2QN
ODS code E83639
1.8 km
RUTLAND HOUSE SURGERY
40 COLNEY HATCH LANE, LONDON, N10 1DU
ODS code F85688
2.0 km
OAKLEIGH ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
280 OAKLEIGH ROAD NORTH, WHETSTONE, LONDON, N20 0DH
ODS code E83003
2.1 km
THE ALEXANDRA SURGERY
125 ALEXANDRA PARK ROAD, WOOD GREEN, LONDON, N22 7UN
ODS code F85675
2.1 km
EAST FINCHLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
39 BARONSMERE ROAD, EAST FINCHLEY, LONDON, N2 9QD
ODS code E83050
2.1 km
LICHFIELD GROVE SURGERY
64 LICHFIELD GROVE, FINCHLEY, LONDON, N3 2JP
ODS code E83005
2.2 km
SUPREME MEDICAL CENTRE
SUPREME HOUSE, 300 REGENTS PARK ROAD, FINCHLEY, LONDON, N3 2JX
ODS code E83026
2.3 km
THE MUSWELL HILL PRACTICE
54 MUSWELL HILL, LONDON, N10 3ST
ODS code F85063
2.4 km
THE MOUNTFIELD SURGERY
55 MOUNTFIELD ROAD, FINCHLEY, LONDON, N3 3NR
ODS code E83638
2.5 km
ARNOS GROVE MEDICAL CENTR
269 BOWES ROAD, NEW SOUTHGATE, LONDON, N11 1BD
ODS code F85700
2.5 km
Showing 20 of 59 matching practices.
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
Sunny Way
BCT · Colney Hatch
- 0.1 miles
Sunny Way
BCT · Colney Hatch
- 0.2 miles
Coppetts Close
BCT · Colney Hatch
- 0.2 miles
Woodgrange Avenue (N12)
BCT · North Finchley
- 0.2 miles
Coppetts Close
BCT · Colney Hatch
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnet 022F, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,642 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 4
- 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
4,605 published events cover 12 months, averaging 383.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,237 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.