Schools
36 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 4 secondary schools. Merstham Park School is the nearest published school at 418 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RH1 3FB
Hooley, Merstham & Netherne · Reigate and Banstead · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Reigate and Banstead
- Constituency
- East Surrey
- Postcode district
- RH1
- Postcode sector
- RH1 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH1 3FB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH1
- Postcode sector
- RH1 3
- Latitude
- 51.260463
- Longitude
- -0.145576
- British National Grid easting
- 529,488
- British National Grid northing
- 152,889
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Reigate and Banstead · E07000211
- Electoral ward
- Hooley, Merstham & Netherne · E05012875
- Parish or community
- E43000140
- Westminster constituency
- East Surrey · E14001215
- Output area
- E00156070
- Lower layer super output area
- Reigate and Banstead 008A · E01030599
- Middle layer super output area
- Reigate and Banstead 008 · E02006382
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 RH1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 4
- 418 m
Merstham Park School
Free schools
- 481 m
Merstham Primary School
Academy converter
- 509 m
Furzefield Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,079
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 357
- Anti social behaviour 178
- Vehicle crime 143
- Criminal damage and arson 104
- Public order 103
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RH1 3 residents
- 8,960
Age bands in RH1 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.1%
1,890 residents
866 residents
2,623 residents
2,339 residents
1,265 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
HOLMHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
12 THORNTON SIDE, WATERCOLOUR, REDHILL, RH1 2NP
ODS code H81048
1.0 km
HAWTHORNS SURGERY
1 OXFORD ROAD, REDHILL, RH1 1DT
ODS code H81055
3.0 km
THE HOUSE PARTNERSHIP
99 STATION ROAD, REDHILL, RH1 1EB
ODS code H81030
3.1 km
WOODLANDS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
5 WOODLANDS ROAD, REDHILL, RH1 6EY
ODS code H81058
3.8 km
THE WALL HOUSE SURGERY
YORKE ROAD, REIGATE, RH2 9HG
ODS code H81089
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Portland Drive Flats
BCT · Merstham
- 0.0 miles
Worsted Green
BCT · Merstham
- 0.1 miles
Portland Drive East
BCT · Merstham
- 0.1 miles
Portland Drive East
BCT · Merstham
- 0.2 miles
Albury Road
BCT · Merstham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Reigate and Banstead 008A, 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
5,781 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
1,079 published events cover 12 months, averaging 89.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 357 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.