Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 2 secondary schools. E-Act Bourne End Academy is the nearest published school at 85 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SL8 5BS
Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns · Buckinghamshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bourne End
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield
- Postcode district
- SL8
- Postcode sector
- SL8 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SL8 5BS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SL
- Postcode district
- SL8
- Postcode sector
- SL8 5
- Latitude
- 51.581300
- Longitude
- -0.706353
- British National Grid easting
- 489,732
- British National Grid northing
- 187,730
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Buckinghamshire · E06000060
- Electoral ward
- Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns · E05015951
- Parish or community
- E04001618
- Westminster constituency
- Beaconsfield · E14001082
- Output area
- E00090054
- Lower layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 060A · E01017846
- Middle layer super output area
- Buckinghamshire 060 · E02003716
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 SL8
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 41, New Road, Bourne End, SL8 5BS | 27 February 2014 | £495,000 |
| 37, New Road, Bourne End, SL8 5BS | 21 November 2007 | £375,000 |
| 49, New Road, Bourne End, SL8 5BS | 17 August 2007 | £395,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 2
- 85 m
E-Act Bourne End Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 276 m
Westfield School
Community special school
- 761 m
Claytons Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 336
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 148
- Public order 30
- Criminal damage and arson 29
- Other theft 24
- Drugs 19
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 21
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- SL8 5 residents
- 6,758
7 female, 14 male
Age bands in SL8 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.1%
1,078 residents
546 residents
1,509 residents
1,978 residents
1,711 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SL8 5 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+
- 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
5
within 5 km
BOURNE END & WOOBURN GREEN MEDICAL CTR
8 THE GREEN, WOOBURN GREEN, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP10 0EE
ODS code K82066
1.8 km
COOKHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
LOWER ROAD, COOKHAM, MAIDENHEAD, SL6 9HX
ODS code K81042
2.9 km
MILLBARN MEDICAL CENTRE
NEW BEACONSFIELD MED CENTRE, WALKWOOD RISE, BEACONSFIELD, HP9 1TX
ODS code K82011
4.0 km
THE SIMPSON CENTRE
BEACONSFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, WALKWOOD RISE, BEACONSFIELD, HP9 1TX
ODS code K82046
4.0 km
MARLOW MEDICAL GROUP
VICTORIA ROAD, MARLOW, SL7 1DN
ODS code K82023
4.5 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bourne End Academy
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.2 miles
New Road
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.2 miles
Waborne Road
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.2 miles
Loddon Road
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.2 miles
New Road
BCT · Bourne End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Buckinghamshire 060A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,173 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
336 published events cover 12 months, averaging 28 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 148 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.