Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Buxton Community School is the nearest published school at 463 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SK17 6HL
Buxton Central · High Peak · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Buxton Central
- Local authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak
- Postcode district
- SK17
- Postcode sector
- SK17 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SK17 6HL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SK
- Postcode district
- SK17
- Postcode sector
- SK17 6
- Latitude
- 53.254177
- Longitude
- -1.917552
- British National Grid easting
- 405,598
- British National Grid northing
- 373,020
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- High Peak · E07000037
- Electoral ward
- Buxton Central · E05010626
- Parish or community
- E43000050
- Westminster constituency
- High Peak · E14001287
- Output area
- E00099750
- Lower layer super output area
- High Peak 010B · E01019715
- Middle layer super output area
- High Peak 010 · E02004102
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 SK17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 463 m
Buxton Community School
Academy converter
- 477 m
Buxton Junior School
Academy converter
- 537 m
Buxton Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,855
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 804
- Anti social behaviour 197
- Public order 189
- Shoplifting 183
- Criminal damage and arson 158
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SK17 6 residents
- 7,269
Age bands in SK17 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.7%
960 residents
821 residents
1,587 residents
2,324 residents
1,969 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
2
within 5 km
STEWART MEDICAL CENTRE
15 HARTINGTON ROAD, BUXTON, SK17 6JP
ODS code C81034
37 m
BUXTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 TEMPLE ROAD, BUXTON, SK17 9BZ
ODS code C81065
225 m
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
- 0.0 miles
Health Centre
BCT · Buxton
- 0.0 miles
Health Centre
BCT · Buxton
- 0.1 miles
Belvedere Terrace
BCT · Buxton
- 0.1 miles
Belvedere Terrace
BCT · Buxton
- 0.1 miles
Five Ways Cafe
BCT · Buxton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for High Peak 010B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,033 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
1,855 published events cover 12 months, averaging 154.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 804 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.