Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Ashcombe School is the nearest published school at 593 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RH4 1SW
Dorking South · Mole Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Dorking
- Ward
- Dorking South
- Local authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley
- Postcode district
- RH4
- Postcode sector
- RH4 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH4 1SW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 February 2009
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH4
- Postcode sector
- RH4 1
- Latitude
- 51.234919
- Longitude
- -0.323629
- British National Grid easting
- 517,130
- British National Grid northing
- 149,750
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Mole Valley · E07000210
- Electoral ward
- Dorking South · E05015348
- Parish or community
- E43000139
- Westminster constituency
- Dorking and Horley · E14001201
- Output area
- E00155740
- Lower layer super output area
- Mole Valley 010C · E01030537
- Middle layer super output area
- Mole Valley 010 · E02006371
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 RH4
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Fairways, The Drive, Dorking, RH4 1SW | 23 June 2000 | £370,000 |
| Southfields, Reigate Road, Dorking, RH4 1SW | 5 January 1995 | £360,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 593 m
The Ashcombe School
Academy converter
- 814 m
St Paul's CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 982 m
Dorking Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,034
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 318
- Anti social behaviour 140
- Shoplifting 124
- Public order 105
- Criminal damage and arson 90
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RH4 1 residents
- 5,661
Age bands in RH4 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.7%
888 residents
493 residents
1,613 residents
1,754 residents
1,237 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
MEDWYN SURGERY
REIGATE ROAD, DORKING, RH4 1SD
ODS code H81072
54 m
DORKING MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEW HOUSE SURGERY, 142A SOUTH STREET, DORKING, RH4 2QR
ODS code H81028
1.1 km
BROCKWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
TANNERS MEADOW, BROCKHAM, BETCHWORTH, RH3 7NJ
ODS code H81068
3.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Council Offices
BCT · Pippbrook
- 0.1 miles
Council Offices
BCT · Pippbrook
- 0.1 miles
South Drive
BCT · Dorking
- 0.1 miles
Moores Road
BCT · Dorking
- 0.1 miles
South Drive
BCT · Dorking
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mole Valley 010C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,866 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
1,034 published events cover 12 months, averaging 86.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 318 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.