Schools
179 open schools are in scope, including 98 primary and 29 secondary schools. The Compton School is the nearest published school at 246 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
N12 9BA
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- N12 9BA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- N
- Postcode district
- N12
- Postcode sector
- N12 9
- Latitude
- 51.611528
- Longitude
- -0.161461
- British National Grid easting
- 527,400
- British National Grid northing
- 191,900
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
- E00001546
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnet 015F · E01000324
- Middle layer super output area
- Barnet 015 · E02000038
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
- 179
- Primary
- 98
- Secondary
- 29
- 246 m
The Compton School
Academy converter
- 302 m
Dwight School London
Other independent school
- 478 m
Wren Academy Finchley
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,840
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,297
- Anti social behaviour 718
- Vehicle crime 647
- Shoplifting 536
- Other theft 336
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- N12 9 residents
- 8,074
Age bands in N12 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.5%
1,393 residents
783 residents
2,434 residents
2,077 residents
1,226 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
55
within 5 km straight-line
FRIERN BARNET MEDICAL CENTRE
15-16 ST JOHNS VILLAS, FRIERN BARNET ROAD, LONDON, N11 3BU
ODS code E83045
431 m
HOMELESS ACTION IN BARNET
36B WOODHOUSE ROAD, NORTH FINCHLEY, LONDON, N12 0RG
ODS code E83666
902 m
BARNET FEDERATED GPS LIMITED
311 BALLARDS LANE, FINCHLEY, LONDON, N12 8LY
ODS code Y05258
1.1 km
CORNWALL HOUSE SURGERY
TORRINGTON PARK HEALTH CENTRE, 16 TORRINGTON PARK, LONDON, N12 9SS
ODS code E83013
1.1 km
THE SPEEDWELL PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, TORRINGTON PARK, NORTH FINCHLEY, LONDON, N12 9SS
ODS code E83010
1.1 km
TORRINGTON PARK GROUP PRACTICE
TORRINGTON PARK HEALTH CENTRE, 16 TORRINGTON PARK, NORTH FINCHLEY, LONDON, N12 9SS
ODS code E83021
1.1 km
SQUIRES LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 SQUIRES LANE, FINCHLEY, LONDON, N3 2AU
ODS code E83007
1.4 km
OAKLEIGH ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
280 OAKLEIGH ROAD NORTH, WHETSTONE, LONDON, N20 0DH
ODS code E83003
1.5 km
COLNEY HATCH LANE SURGERY
192 COLNEY HATCH LANE, MUSWELL HILL, LONDON, N10 1ET
ODS code E83034
1.6 km
WENTWORTH GROUP PRACTICE - FINCHLEY
38 WENTWORTH AVENUE, FINCHLEY, LONDON, N3 1YL
ODS code E83035
1.9 km
BRUNSWICK PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
BRUNSWICK PARK ROAD, NEW SOUTHGATE, LONDON, N11 1EY
ODS code E83621
2.2 km
WOODLANDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
54 LEOPOLD ROAD, EAST FINCHLEY, LONDON, N2 8BG
ODS code Y00316
2.2 km
THE ALEXANDRA SURGERY
125 ALEXANDRA PARK ROAD, WOOD GREEN, LONDON, N22 7UN
ODS code F85675
2.2 km
ST ANDREWS MEDICAL PRACTICE.
50 OAKLEIGH ROAD NORTH, WHETSTONE, LONDON, N20 9EX
ODS code E83024
2.2 km
RUTLAND HOUSE SURGERY
40 COLNEY HATCH LANE, LONDON, N10 1DU
ODS code F85688
2.2 km
ARNOS GROVE MEDICAL CENTR
269 BOWES ROAD, NEW SOUTHGATE, LONDON, N11 1BD
ODS code F85700
2.2 km
ROSEMARY SURGERY
2 ROSEMARY AVENUE, FINCHLEY, LONDON, N3 2QN
ODS code E83639
2.3 km
BOUNDS GREEN GROUP PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, GORDON ROAD, BOUNDS GREEN, NEW SOUTHGATE, LONDON, N11 2PF
ODS code F85066
2.5 km
LICHFIELD GROVE SURGERY
64 LICHFIELD GROVE, FINCHLEY, LONDON, N3 2JP
ODS code E83005
2.6 km
EAST FINCHLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
39 BARONSMERE ROAD, EAST FINCHLEY, LONDON, N2 9QD
ODS code E83050
2.6 km
Showing 20 of 55 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Summers Lane
BCT · Friern Barnet
- 0.1 miles
Short Way
BCT · Friern Barnet
- 0.1 miles
Short Way
BCT · Friern Barnet
- 0.1 miles
Colney Hatch Lane
BCT · Friern Barnet
- 0.1 miles
Lewes Road
BCT · Friern Barnet
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnet 015F, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,585 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 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
- 3 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
4,840 published events cover 12 months, averaging 403.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,297 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.