Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. St Teresa's School is the nearest published school at 477 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RH5 6SU
Effingham · Guildford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH5 6SU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH5
- Postcode sector
- RH5 6
- Latitude
- 51.244091
- Longitude
- -0.400707
- British National Grid easting
- 511,727
- British National Grid northing
- 150,650
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
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Friars Elm, Dog Kennel Green, Ranmore Common, Dorking, RH5 6SU | 30 September 2020 | £3,400,000 |
| Effingham Hill Farm, Dog Kennel Green, Ranmore Common, Dorking, RH5 6SU | 10 June 2010 | £2,750,000 |
| The Long Barn, Dog Kennel Green, Ranmore Common, Dorking, RH5 6SU | 14 March 2008 | £2,200,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 477 m
St Teresa's School
Other independent school
- 3.2 km
St Lawrence Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 3.3 km
Howard of Effingham School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Public order 3
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Burglary 2
- Drugs 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- RH5 6 residents
- 3,970
4 female, 2 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RH5 6 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+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 50%
- 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
5
within 5 km
FAIRFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
LOWER ROAD, GREAT BOOKHAM, LEATHERHEAD, KT23 4DH
ODS code H81016
4.2 km
THE HORSLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, KINGSTON AVENUE, EAST HORSLEY, LEATHERHEAD, KT24 6QT
ODS code H81084
4.4 km
EASTWICK PARK MED.PRACT.
EASTWICK PARK AVENUE, BOOKHAM, LEATHERHEAD, KT23 3ND
ODS code H81103
4.8 km
DORKING MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEW HOUSE SURGERY, 142A SOUTH STREET, DORKING, RH4 2QR
ODS code H81028
4.9 km
SHERESURGERYANDDISPENSARY
SHERE SURGERY & DISPENSARY, GOMSHALL LANE, SHERE, GUILDFORD, GU5 9DR
ODS code H81077
4.9 km
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
- 1.3 miles
Salmons Road
BCT · Effingham
- 1.4 miles
Salmons Road
BCT · Effingham
- 1.5 miles
Sheepleas Turning
BCT · East Horsley
- 1.5 miles
Sheepleas Turning
BCT · East Horsley
- 1.6 miles
Golf Club
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.
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
- 0
- 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
15 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.