Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Dorking Nursery School is the nearest published school at 181 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RH4 2QW
Dorking North · Mole Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dorking North
- Local authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley
- Postcode district
- RH4
- Postcode sector
- RH4 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH4 2QW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- 1 November 2019
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH4
- Postcode sector
- RH4 2
- Latitude
- 51.231332
- Longitude
- -0.333772
- British National Grid easting
- 516,431
- British National Grid northing
- 149,335
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Mole Valley · E07000210
- Electoral ward
- Dorking North · E05015347
- Parish or community
- E43000139
- Westminster constituency
- Dorking and Horley · E14001201
- Output area
- E00155741
- Lower layer super output area
- Mole Valley 010D · E01030538
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 181 m
Dorking Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 345 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 521 m
St Paul's CofE Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,185
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 390
- Anti social behaviour 149
- Shoplifting 124
- Public order 121
- Criminal damage and arson 94
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RH4 2 residents
- 5,268
Age bands in RH4 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.1%
946 residents
487 residents
1,278 residents
1,316 residents
1,011 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.
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
DORKING MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEW HOUSE SURGERY, 142A SOUTH STREET, DORKING, RH4 2QR
ODS code H81028
335 m
MEDWYN SURGERY
REIGATE ROAD, DORKING, RH4 1SD
ODS code H81072
760 m
BROCKWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
TANNERS MEADOW, BROCKHAM, BETCHWORTH, RH3 7NJ
ODS code H81068
3.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
South Street
BCT · Dorking
- 0.1 miles
West Street
BCT · Dorking
- 0.2 miles
The White Horse
BCT · Dorking
- 0.2 miles
The White Horse
BCT · Dorking
- 0.2 miles
Vincent Lane
BCT · Dorking
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mole Valley 010D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,145 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,185 published events cover 12 months, averaging 98.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 390 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.