Schools
87 open schools are in scope, including 54 primary and 9 secondary schools. Field Junior School is the nearest published school at 413 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD18 0HZ
Oxhey · Watford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD18 0HZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2020
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD18
- Postcode sector
- WD18 0
- Latitude
- 51.646643
- Longitude
- -0.389762
- British National Grid easting
- 511,507
- British National Grid northing
- 195,432
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Watford · E07000103
- Electoral ward
- Oxhey · E05011052
- Parish or community
- E43000082
- Westminster constituency
- Watford · E14001568
- Output area
- E00121178
- Lower layer super output area
- Watford 009D · E01023862
- Middle layer super output area
- Watford 009 · E02004976
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 WD18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 87
- Primary
- 54
- Secondary
- 9
- 413 m
Field Junior School
Community school
- 413 m
Watford Field School (Infant & Nursery)
Community school
- 561 m
Bromet Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,482
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,922
- Anti social behaviour 718
- Shoplifting 615
- Other theft 401
- Public order 377
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WD18 0 residents
- 10,101
Age bands in WD18 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 40.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.1%
1,817 residents
976 residents
3,811 residents
2,089 residents
766 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
17
within 5 km straight-line
ATTENBOROUGH SURGERY
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82124
1.1 km
MANOR VIEW PRACTICE
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82073
1.1 km
WATFORD HEALTH CENTRE
GROUND FLOOR, COLNE HOUSE, 21 UPTON ROAD, WATFORD, WD18 0JP
ODS code E82045
1.4 km
SUTHERGREY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
37A ST. JOHNS ROAD, WATFORD, WD17 1LS
ODS code E82015
1.7 km
THE ELMS SURGERY
38 THE AVENUE, WATFORD, WD17 4NT
ODS code E82069
1.9 km
CONSULTING ROOMS
THE CONSULTING ROOMS, OXHEY DRIVE, WATFORD, WD19 7RU
ODS code E82020
2.3 km
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code E82013
2.3 km
SAS WEST HERTS
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code Y08362
2.3 km
SOUTH OXHEY SURGERY
OXHEY DRIVE, WATFORD, WD19 7SF
ODS code E82655
2.3 km
LITTLE BUSHEY SURGERY
CALIFORNIA LANE, BUSHEY HEATH, BUSHEY, WD23 1EZ
ODS code E82657
3.4 km
GARSTON MEDICAL CENTRE
6A NORTH WESTERN AVENUE, WATFORD, WD25 9GP
ODS code E82017
4.0 km
NEW ROAD SURGERY
166 NEW ROAD, CROXLEY GREEN, RICKMANSWORTH, WD3 3HD
ODS code E82106
4.0 km
EASTBURY SURGERY
3 EASTBURY ROAD, NORTHWOOD, HA6 3BG
ODS code E86028
4.5 km
HATCH END MEDICAL CENTRE
577 UXBRIDGE ROAD, HATCH END, PINNER, HA5 4RD
ODS code E84053
4.6 km
ELLIOTT HALL MEDICAL CTR.
165-167 UXBRIDGE ROAD, HATCH END, PINNER, HA5 4EA
ODS code E84061
4.6 km
ACRE SURGERY
NEAL CLOSE, ACRE WAY, NORTHWOOD, HA6 1TQ
ODS code E86041
4.9 km
CAREPOINT PRACTICE
NORTHWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, NEAL CLOSE, NORTHWOOD, HA6 1TQ
ODS code E86618
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bushey Railway Station West
BCT · Bushey
- 0.2 miles
Bushey Railway Station West
BCT · Bushey
- 0.2 miles
Dalton Way
BCT · Watford
- 0.2 miles
Bushey Rail Station
RSE · Bushey
- 0.2 miles
Bushey Rail Station
RSE · Bushey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Watford 009D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,789 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
- 1
- 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
5,482 published events cover 12 months, averaging 456.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,922 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.