Schools
52 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 6 secondary schools. Garston Manor School is the nearest published school at 142 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD2 7HJ
Woodside · Watford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD2 7HJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 2000
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD2
- Postcode sector
- WD2 7
- Latitude
- 51.696177
- Longitude
- -0.389509
- British National Grid easting
- 511,403
- British National Grid northing
- 200,941
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Watford · E07000103
- Electoral ward
- Woodside · E05011057
- Parish or community
- E43000082
- Westminster constituency
- Watford · E14001568
- Output area
- E00121387
- Lower layer super output area
- Watford 001B · E01023905
- Middle layer super output area
- Watford 001 · E02004968
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 WD2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 52
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 6
- 142 m
Garston Manor School
Community special school
- 265 m
Future Academies Watford
Academy sponsor led
- 275 m
St Catherine of Siena Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,876
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 813
- Anti social behaviour 326
- Vehicle crime 166
- Criminal damage and arson 139
- Public order 106
GP practices
10
within 5 km straight-line
ABBOTSWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
12 KATHERINE PLACE, COLLEGE ROAD, ABBOTS LANGLEY, WD5 0BT
ODS code E82105
1.1 km
GARSTON MEDICAL CENTRE
6A NORTH WESTERN AVENUE, WATFORD, WD25 9GP
ODS code E82017
1.5 km
SHEEPCOT MEDICAL CENTRE
6 CUNNINGHAM WAY, WATFORD, WD25 7NL
ODS code E82096
1.6 km
VINE HOUSE HEALTH CENTRE
87-89 HIGH STREET, ABBOTS LANGLEY, WD5 0AL
ODS code E82046
2.2 km
THE ELMS SURGERY
38 THE AVENUE, WATFORD, WD17 4NT
ODS code E82069
4.0 km
SUTHERGREY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
37A ST. JOHNS ROAD, WATFORD, WD17 1LS
ODS code E82015
4.0 km
WATFORD HEALTH CENTRE
GROUND FLOOR, COLNE HOUSE, 21 UPTON ROAD, WATFORD, WD18 0JP
ODS code E82045
4.5 km
KINGS LANGLEY SURGERY
THE NAP, KINGS LANGLEY, WD4 8ET
ODS code E82129
4.5 km
HAVERFIELD SURGERY
1 LANGLEY HILL, KINGS LANGLEY, WD4 9HA
ODS code E82066
4.7 km
MIDWAY SURGERY
93 WATFORD ROAD, ST. ALBANS, AL2 3JX
ODS code E82055
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Future Academies Watford
BCT · Woodside
- 0.2 miles
Future Academies Watford
BCT · Woodside
- 0.2 miles
Three Horseshoes PH West
BCT · Garston
- 0.2 miles
Three Horseshoes PH West
BCT · Garston
- 0.2 miles
Newhouse Crescent Green
BCT · Woodside
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Watford 001B, 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
14,596 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
1,876 published events cover 12 months, averaging 156.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 813 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.