Schools
227 open schools are in scope, including 106 primary and 28 secondary schools. Snowflake School is the nearest published school at 272 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
W3 6RE
South Acton · Ealing · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Ward
- South Acton
- Local authority
- Ealing
- Constituency
- Ealing Central and Acton
- Postcode district
- W3
- Postcode sector
- W3 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- W3 6RE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- W
- Postcode district
- W3
- Postcode sector
- W3 6
- Latitude
- 51.507603
- Longitude
- -0.269835
- British National Grid easting
- 520,170
- British National Grid northing
- 180,160
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Ealing · E09000009
- Electoral ward
- South Acton · E05013536
- Parish or community
- E43000199
- Westminster constituency
- Ealing Central and Acton · E14001207
- Output area
- E00179222
- Lower layer super output area
- Ealing 025C · E01001202
- Middle layer super output area
- Ealing 025 · E02000262
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 W3
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Oak Shopping Centre, High Street, London, W3 6RE | 11 September 2018 | £27,547,189 |
| Oak Shopping Centre, High Street, London, W3 6RE | 17 November 2016 | £42,101,400 |
| Oak Shopping Centre, High Street, London, W3 6RE | 17 November 2016 | £10,580,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 227
- Primary
- 106
- Secondary
- 28
- 272 m
Snowflake School
Other independent special school
- 293 m
Derwentwater Primary School
Community school
- 390 m
Ark Priory Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,774
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,882
- Anti social behaviour 1,092
- Vehicle crime 698
- Other theft 607
- Shoplifting 551
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- W3 6 residents
- 15,469
Age bands in W3 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 22.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.5%
2,230 residents
3,481 residents
5,212 residents
3,134 residents
1,144 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.
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
93
within 5 km
THE ACTON HEALTH CENTRE
35-61 CHURCH ROAD, ACTON, LONDON, W3 8QE
ODS code E85109
156 m
HILLCREST SURGERY
GROUND FLOOR, 23-31 KING STREET, LONDON, W3 9LA
ODS code E85028
161 m
THE CHURCHFIELD ROAD SURGERY
64 CHURCHFIELD ROAD, ACTON, LONDON, W3 6DL
ODS code E85640
260 m
CROWN STREET SURGERY
2 LOMBARD COURT, CROWN STREET, ACTON, LONDON, W3 8SA
ODS code E85019
275 m
THE MILL HILL SURGERY
111 AVENUE ROAD, ACTON, LONDON, W3 8QH
ODS code E85107
418 m
CHISWICK FAMILY PRACTICE
UNIT A, KELTON HOUSE, CORBET GARDENS, LONDON, W3 8TF
ODS code E85130
684 m
GP SURGERY @ ACTON GARDENS
UNIT A, KELTON HOUSE, CORBET GARDENS, LONDON, W3 8TF
ODS code E85075
684 m
ACTON LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
253 ACTON LANE, LONDON, W4 5DG
ODS code E85687
712 m
THE HORN LANE SURGERY
156 HORN LANE, ACTON, LONDON, W3 6PH
ODS code E85677
790 m
THE VALE SURGERY
97 THE VALE, ACTON, LONDON, W3 7RG
ODS code E85635
1.3 km
THE BEDFORD PARK SURGERY
55 SOUTH PARADE, CHISWICK, LONDON, W4 5LH
ODS code E85066
1.4 km
CLOISTER ROAD SURGERY
41-43 CLOISTER ROAD, ACTON, LONDON, W3 0DF
ODS code E85680
1.6 km
CHISWICK HEALTH PRACTICE
FISHERS LANE, LONDON, W4 1RX
ODS code E85030
1.7 km
WEST4 GPS
CHISWICK HEALTH CENTRE, FISHERS LANE, LONDON, W4 1RX
ODS code E85040
1.7 km
THE WESTWAY SURGERY
13 WESTWAY, SHEPHERDS BUSH, LONDON, W12 0PT
ODS code E85005
1.7 km
THE BOILEAU ROAD SURGERY
104 BOILEAU ROAD, EALING, LONDON, W5 3AJ
ODS code E85694
1.8 km
HOLLY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
2A HOLLY ROAD, CHISWICK, LONDON, W4 1NU
ODS code E85658
1.8 km
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, DR KUKAR
13 OLLGAR CLOSE, LONDON, W12 0NF
ODS code E85748
1.8 km
ASHCHURCH SURGERY
134 ASKEW ROAD, SHEPHERDS BUSH, LONDON, W12 9BP
ODS code E85032
2.0 km
GLEBE STREET SURGERY
1 GLEBE STREET, CHISWICK, LONDON, W4 2BD
ODS code E85683
2.0 km
Showing 20 of 93 matching practices.
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
- 0.1 miles
Acton Old Town Hall
BCT · Acton
- 0.1 miles
Acton Market Place
BCT · Acton
- 0.1 miles
Rectory Road Acton
BCT · Acton
- 0.1 miles
Acton Old Town Hall
BCT · Acton
- 0.1 miles
Acton Old Town Hall
BCT · Acton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Ealing 025C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,282 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
6,774 published events cover 12 months, averaging 564.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,882 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.