Schools
80 open schools are in scope, including 51 primary and 8 secondary schools. Longwood School is the nearest published school at 500 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD23 2RJ
Bushey St James · Hertsmere · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD23 2RJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2014
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD23
- Postcode sector
- WD23 2
- Latitude
- 51.653169
- Longitude
- -0.368135
- British National Grid easting
- 512,987
- British National Grid northing
- 196,191
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Hertsmere · E07000098
- Electoral ward
- Bushey St James · E05012187
- Parish or community
- E43000288
- Westminster constituency
- Hertsmere · E14001284
- Output area
- E00190251
- Lower layer super output area
- Hertsmere 012E · E01023562
- Middle layer super output area
- Hertsmere 012 · E02004907
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 WD23
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Derby House, Flat 2, King Edward Place, Bushey, WD23 2RJ | 16 February 2015 | £1,470,000 |
| Derby House, Flat 1, King Edward Place, Bushey, WD23 2RJ | 3 December 2014 | £1,593,750 |
| Derby House, Flat 3, King Edward Place, Bushey, WD23 2RJ | 5 June 2014 | £989,583 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 80
- Primary
- 51
- Secondary
- 8
- 500 m
Longwood School
Other independent school
- 596 m
Queens' School
Academy converter
- 598 m
Bournehall Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,910
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 692
- Anti social behaviour 290
- Shoplifting 181
- Other theft 136
- Vehicle crime 124
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- WD23 2 residents
- 8,933
4 female, 2 male
Age bands in WD23 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.2%
1,681 residents
1,003 residents
2,640 residents
2,474 residents
1,394 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WD23 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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
14
within 5 km straight-line
ATTENBOROUGH SURGERY
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82124
914 m
MANOR VIEW PRACTICE
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82073
914 m
WATFORD HEALTH CENTRE
GROUND FLOOR, COLNE HOUSE, 21 UPTON ROAD, WATFORD, WD18 0JP
ODS code E82045
2.3 km
SUTHERGREY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
37A ST. JOHNS ROAD, WATFORD, WD17 1LS
ODS code E82015
2.4 km
LITTLE BUSHEY SURGERY
CALIFORNIA LANE, BUSHEY HEATH, BUSHEY, WD23 1EZ
ODS code E82657
2.7 km
THE ELMS SURGERY
38 THE AVENUE, WATFORD, WD17 4NT
ODS code E82069
2.7 km
SOUTH OXHEY SURGERY
OXHEY DRIVE, WATFORD, WD19 7SF
ODS code E82655
3.4 km
CONSULTING ROOMS
THE CONSULTING ROOMS, OXHEY DRIVE, WATFORD, WD19 7RU
ODS code E82020
3.4 km
GARSTON MEDICAL CENTRE
6A NORTH WESTERN AVENUE, WATFORD, WD25 9GP
ODS code E82017
3.6 km
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code E82013
3.8 km
SAS WEST HERTS
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code Y08362
3.8 km
THE RED HOUSE GROUP
THE RED HOUSE SURGERY, 124 WATLING STREET, RADLETT, WD7 7JQ
ODS code E82085
4.8 km
SCHOPWICK SURGERY
EVERETT COURT, ROMELAND, ELSTREE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 3BJ
ODS code E82043
4.8 km
ELLIOTT HALL MEDICAL CTR.
165-167 UXBRIDGE ROAD, HATCH END, PINNER, HA5 4EA
ODS code E84061
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Royal Connaught Park
BCT · Bushey
- 0.2 miles
Royal Connaught Park
BCT · Bushey
- 0.2 miles
Leisure Centre
BCT · Bushey
- 0.2 miles
Finch Lane
BCT · Bushey
- 0.2 miles
Finch Lane
BCT · Bushey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hertsmere 012E, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,044 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,910 published events cover 12 months, averaging 159.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 692 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.