Schools
231 open schools are in scope, including 115 primary and 30 secondary schools. Peninim is the nearest published school at 268 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NW2 1XB
Cricklewood · Barnet · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Ward
- Cricklewood
- Local authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Finchley and Golders Green
- Postcode district
- NW2
- Postcode sector
- NW2 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NW2 1XB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NW
- Postcode district
- NW2
- Postcode sector
- NW2 1
- Latitude
- 51.573743
- Longitude
- -0.213336
- British National Grid easting
- 523,911
- British National Grid northing
- 187,609
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Barnet · E09000003
- Electoral ward
- Cricklewood · E05013634
- Parish or community
- E43000193
- Westminster constituency
- Finchley and Golders Green · E14001238
- Output area
- E00001076
- Lower layer super output area
- Barnet 039B · E01000221
- Middle layer super output area
- Barnet 039 · E02000062
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 NW2
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 39, Flat 2, Marble Drive, London, NW2 1XB | 7 November 2003 | £145,000 |
| 39, Flat 2, Marble Drive, London, NW2 1XB | 30 September 2003 | £130,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 231
- Primary
- 115
- Secondary
- 30
- 268 m
Peninim
Other independent school
- 338 m
Wessex Gardens Primary School
Community school
- 392 m
Clarion
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,565
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,597
- Shoplifting 1,052
- Anti social behaviour 883
- Vehicle crime 649
- Other theft 526
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 88
- Postcode households
- 58
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- NW2 1 residents
- 9,521
37 female, 51 male
Age bands in NW2 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.1%
1,808 residents
1,181 residents
2,859 residents
2,331 residents
1,026 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NW2 1 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+
- 86.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 86.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 86.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 86.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 86.7%
- 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
75
within 5 km
PENNINE DRIVE PRACTICE
8 PENNINE DRIVE, HENDON, LONDON, NW2 1PA
ODS code E83025
662 m
THE PRACTICE AT 188
188 GOLDERS GREEN ROAD, GOLDERS GREEN, LONDON, NW11 9AY
ODS code E83027
672 m
RAVENSCROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
166-168 GOLDERS GREEN ROAD, GOLDERS GREEN, LONDON, NW11 8BB
ODS code E83039
753 m
DR AZIM & PARTNERS
67 ELLIOT ROAD, HENDON, LONDON, NW4 3EB
ODS code Y03664
1.1 km
THE HODFORD ROAD PRACTICE
73 HODFORD ROAD, LONDON, NW11 8NH
ODS code E83649
1.1 km
DRS ADLER AND ROSENBERG
682 FINCHLEY ROAD, GOLDERS GREEN, LONDON, NW11 7NP
ODS code E83600
1.2 km
PHGH DOCTORS
TEMPLE FORTUNE HEALTH CENTRE, 23 TEMPLE FORTUNE LANE, GOLDERS GREEN, LONDON, NW11 7TE
ODS code E83009
1.4 km
TEMPLE FORTUNE MEDICAL GROUP
THE TEMPLE FORTUNE HEALTH CENTRE, 23 TEMPLE FORTUNE LANE, LONDON, NW11 7TE
ODS code E83622
1.4 km
OXGATE GARDENS SURGERY
81 OXGATE GARDENS, LONDON, NW2 6EA
ODS code E84076
1.4 km
GREENFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
143-145 CRICKLEWOOD LANE, LONDON, NW2 1HS
ODS code E83006
1.5 km
THE PHOENIX PRACTICE
7 BRAMPTON GROVE, HENDON, LONDON, NW4 4AE
ODS code E83653
1.7 km
CRICKLEWOOD GENERAL PRACTICE
7 OAKLANDS ROAD, CRICKLEWOOD, LONDON, NW2 6DJ
ODS code Y02986
2.0 km
HENDON WAY SURGERY
215 WEST HENDON BROADWAY, LONDON, NW9 7DG
ODS code Y03663
2.1 km
CHICHELE ROAD SURGERY
25 CHICHELE ROAD, CRICKLEWOOD, LONDON, NW2 3AN
ODS code E84674
2.1 km
WILLESDEN GREEN SURGERY
59 ANSON ROAD, LONDON, NW2 3UY
ODS code E84702
2.2 km
ST. GEORGES MEDICAL CENTRE
7 SUNNINGFIELDS ROAD, HENDON, LONDON, NW4 4QR
ODS code E83020
2.3 km
GRAY'S INN MEDICAL GROUP WEST HAMPSTEAD
80 FORTUNE GREEN ROAD, LONDON, NW6 1DS
ODS code F83050
2.4 km
MAPESBURY MEDICAL GROUP
WINDMILL MEDICAL PRACTICE, 65 SHOOT UP HILL, LONDON, NW2 3PS
ODS code E84012
2.5 km
WALM LANE SURGERY
114 WALM LANE, LONDON, NW2 4RT
ODS code E84086
2.6 km
HEATHFIELDE MEDICAL CENTRE
LYTTELTON ROAD, FINCHLEY, BARNET, LONDON, N2 0EQ
ODS code E83008
2.7 km
Showing 20 of 75 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
- 0.0 miles
Woodville Gardens (NW11)
BCT · Brent Cross
- 0.1 miles
Woodville Gardens (NW11)
BCT · Brent Cross
- 0.1 miles
Tesco Brent Cross
BCT · Brent Cross
- 0.2 miles
Wessex Gardens
BCT · Golders Green
- 0.2 miles
Highfield Avenue Brent Cross
BCT · Brent Cross
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barnet 039B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,126 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
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
- 13
- 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
6,565 published events cover 12 months, averaging 547.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,597 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.