Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Watchfield Primary School is the nearest published school at 351 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SN6 8BU
Watchfield & Shrivenham · Vale of White Horse · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney
- Postcode district
- SN6
- Postcode sector
- SN6 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SN6 8BU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 2005
- Terminated
- 1 July 2010
- Postcode area
- SN
- Postcode district
- SN6
- Postcode sector
- SN6 8
- Latitude
- 51.608995
- Longitude
- -1.640092
- British National Grid easting
- 425,019
- British National Grid northing
- 190,079
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Vale of White Horse · E07000180
- Electoral ward
- Watchfield & Shrivenham · E05012980
- Parish or community
- E04012515
- Westminster constituency
- Witney · E14001591
- Output area
- E00146423
- Lower layer super output area
- Vale of White Horse 016D · E01028748
- Middle layer super output area
- Vale of White Horse 016 · E02006886
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 SN6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 351 m
Watchfield Primary School
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- 1.6 km
Shrivenham Church of England School
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- 2.4 km
Longcot and Fernham Church of England Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 200
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 108
- Criminal damage and arson 25
- Anti social behaviour 19
- Shoplifting 15
- Public order 13
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SN6 8 residents
- 6,821
Age bands in SN6 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.6%
1,336 residents
573 residents
1,783 residents
1,828 residents
1,183 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
ELM TREE SURGERY
HIGH STREET, SHRIVENHAM, SWINDON, SN6 8AG
ODS code K84012
1.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Axis Road
BCT · Watchfield
- 0.1 miles
Axis Road
BCT · Watchfield
- 0.3 miles
Northford Hill
BCT · Watchfield
- 0.3 miles
Northford Hill
BCT · Watchfield
- 0.3 miles
Squires Road
BCT · Watchfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Vale of White Horse 016D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,961 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
200 published events cover 12 months, averaging 16.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 108 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.