Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. St Teresa's School is the nearest published school at 298 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RH5 6BJ
Effingham · Guildford · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH5 6BJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 2018
- Terminated
- 1 September 2019
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH5
- Postcode sector
- RH5 6
- Latitude
- 51.250363
- Longitude
- -0.399042
- British National Grid easting
- 511,828
- British National Grid northing
- 151,350
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Guildford · E07000209
- Electoral ward
- Effingham · E05014951
- Parish or community
- E04013211
- Westminster constituency
- Guildford · E14001258
- Output area
- E00155295
- Lower layer super output area
- Guildford 003F · E01030446
- Middle layer super output area
- Guildford 003 · E02006346
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 RH5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 298 m
St Teresa's School
Other independent school
- 2.5 km
St Lawrence Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 2.6 km
Howard of Effingham School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 17
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Burglary 4
- Public order 3
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RH5 6 residents
- 3,970
Age bands in RH5 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 35.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.3%
454 residents
375 residents
525 residents
1,194 residents
820 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
FAIRFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
LOWER ROAD, GREAT BOOKHAM, LEATHERHEAD, KT23 4DH
ODS code H81016
3.5 km
THE HORSLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, KINGSTON AVENUE, EAST HORSLEY, LEATHERHEAD, KT24 6QT
ODS code H81084
4.0 km
EASTWICK PARK MED.PRACT.
EASTWICK PARK AVENUE, BOOKHAM, LEATHERHEAD, KT23 3ND
ODS code H81103
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 1.0 miles
Salmons Road
BCT · Effingham
- 1.0 miles
Salmons Road
BCT · Effingham
- 1.1 miles
Golf Club
BCT · Effingham
- 1.2 miles
Golf Club
BCT · Effingham
- 1.2 miles
Effingham Crossroads
BCT · Effingham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Guildford 003F, 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
28,868 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
17 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.