Schools
86 open schools are in scope, including 53 primary and 9 secondary schools. Chater Infant School is the nearest published school at 415 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD18 7NW
Vicarage · Watford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD18 7NW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 2000
- Terminated
- 1 February 2021
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD18
- Postcode sector
- WD18 7
- Latitude
- 51.650480
- Longitude
- -0.409329
- British National Grid easting
- 510,144
- British National Grid northing
- 195,829
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Watford · E07000103
- Electoral ward
- Vicarage · E05011056
- Parish or community
- E43000082
- Westminster constituency
- Watford · E14001568
- Output area
- E00121371
- Lower layer super output area
- Watford 010E · E01023903
- Middle layer super output area
- Watford 010 · E02004977
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
- 86
- Primary
- 53
- Secondary
- 9
- 415 m
Chater Infant School
Community school
- 427 m
Laurance Haines School
Academy converter
- 462 m
Chessbrook Education Support Centre
Pupil referral unit
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,251
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,216
- Anti social behaviour 827
- Shoplifting 632
- Other theft 479
- Public order 437
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WD18 7 residents
- 11,990
Age bands in WD18 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 35.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 10%
2,504 residents
1,462 residents
4,374 residents
2,821 residents
1,241 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
15
within 5 km straight-line
WATFORD HEALTH CENTRE
GROUND FLOOR, COLNE HOUSE, 21 UPTON ROAD, WATFORD, WD18 0JP
ODS code E82045
897 m
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code E82013
907 m
SAS WEST HERTS
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code Y08362
907 m
THE ELMS SURGERY
38 THE AVENUE, WATFORD, WD17 4NT
ODS code E82069
1.3 km
SUTHERGREY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
37A ST. JOHNS ROAD, WATFORD, WD17 1LS
ODS code E82015
1.3 km
ATTENBOROUGH SURGERY
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82124
2.5 km
MANOR VIEW PRACTICE
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82073
2.5 km
NEW ROAD SURGERY
166 NEW ROAD, CROXLEY GREEN, RICKMANSWORTH, WD3 3HD
ODS code E82106
2.6 km
CONSULTING ROOMS
THE CONSULTING ROOMS, OXHEY DRIVE, WATFORD, WD19 7RU
ODS code E82020
3.1 km
SOUTH OXHEY SURGERY
OXHEY DRIVE, WATFORD, WD19 7SF
ODS code E82655
3.1 km
GARSTON MEDICAL CENTRE
6A NORTH WESTERN AVENUE, WATFORD, WD25 9GP
ODS code E82017
3.8 km
EASTBURY SURGERY
3 EASTBURY ROAD, NORTHWOOD, HA6 3BG
ODS code E86028
4.4 km
MOUNTWOOD SURGERY
RICKMANSWORTH ROAD, NORTHWOOD, HA6 2RG
ODS code E86001
4.5 km
LITTLE BUSHEY SURGERY
CALIFORNIA LANE, BUSHEY HEATH, BUSHEY, WD23 1EZ
ODS code E82657
4.9 km
SHEEPCOT MEDICAL CENTRE
6 CUNNINGHAM WAY, WATFORD, WD25 7NL
ODS code E82096
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Brightwell Road
BCT · Watford
- 0.1 miles
Kelmscott Crescent
BCT · Watford
- 0.1 miles
Queens Avenue
BCT · Watford
- 0.1 miles
Queens Avenue
BCT · Watford
- 0.1 miles
Brightwell Road
BCT · Watford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Watford 010E, 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
14,756 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
6,251 published events cover 12 months, averaging 520.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,216 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.