Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 2 secondary schools. Westfield School is the nearest published school at 111 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SL8 5GJ
Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns · Buckinghamshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield
- Postcode district
- SL8
- Postcode sector
- SL8 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SL8 5GJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- 1 February 2001
- Postcode area
- SL
- Postcode district
- SL8
- Postcode sector
- SL8 5
- Latitude
- 51.579344
- Longitude
- -0.709121
- British National Grid easting
- 489,544
- British National Grid northing
- 187,509
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
- E00090060
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 2
- 111 m
Westfield School
Community special school
- 297 m
E-Act Bourne End Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 749 m
Claytons Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 317
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 143
- Public order 29
- Criminal damage and arson 25
- Other theft 21
- Drugs 19
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SL8 5 residents
- 6,758
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
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
BOURNE END & WOOBURN GREEN MEDICAL CTR
8 THE GREEN, WOOBURN GREEN, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP10 0EE
ODS code K82066
2.1 km
COOKHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
LOWER ROAD, COOKHAM, MAIDENHEAD, SL6 9HX
ODS code K81042
2.6 km
MARLOW MEDICAL GROUP
VICTORIA ROAD, MARLOW, SL7 1DN
ODS code K82023
4.3 km
MILLBARN MEDICAL CENTRE
NEW BEACONSFIELD MED CENTRE, WALKWOOD RISE, BEACONSFIELD, HP9 1TX
ODS code K82011
4.3 km
THE SIMPSON CENTRE
BEACONSFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, WALKWOOD RISE, BEACONSFIELD, HP9 1TX
ODS code K82046
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
New Road
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.1 miles
New Road
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.1 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.2 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Bourne End
- 0.2 miles
Furlong 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
317 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 143 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.