Schools
84 open schools are in scope, including 46 primary and 11 secondary schools. Ashfield Junior School is the nearest published school at 343 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD23 4LP
Bushey Park · Hertsmere · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD23 4LP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD23
- Postcode sector
- WD23 4
- Latitude
- 51.640742
- Longitude
- -0.352684
- British National Grid easting
- 514,087
- British National Grid northing
- 194,833
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Hertsmere · E07000098
- Electoral ward
- Bushey Park · E05012186
- Parish or community
- E43000288
- Westminster constituency
- Hertsmere · E14001284
- Output area
- E00119646
- Lower layer super output area
- Hertsmere 013E · E01023556
- Middle layer super output area
- Hertsmere 013 · E02004908
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
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 54, Ashfield Avenue, Bushey, WD23 4LP | 14 July 2020 | £545,000 |
| 58, Ashfield Avenue, Bushey, WD23 4LP | 26 March 2014 | £515,000 |
| 56, Ashfield Avenue, Bushey, WD23 4LP | 30 August 2011 | £245,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 84
- Primary
- 46
- Secondary
- 11
- 343 m
Ashfield Junior School
Voluntary controlled school
- 361 m
Merry Hill Infant School and Nursery
Community school
- 693 m
St Margaret's School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,181
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 483
- Anti social behaviour 187
- Criminal damage and arson 85
- Vehicle crime 82
- Other theft 80
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- WD23 4 residents
- 6,293
9 female, 5 male
Age bands in WD23 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.6%
1,010 residents
571 residents
1,255 residents
1,576 residents
1,147 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WD23 4 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
18
within 5 km
LITTLE BUSHEY SURGERY
CALIFORNIA LANE, BUSHEY HEATH, BUSHEY, WD23 1EZ
ODS code E82657
908 m
ATTENBOROUGH SURGERY
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82124
1.6 km
MANOR VIEW PRACTICE
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82073
1.6 km
SOUTH OXHEY SURGERY
OXHEY DRIVE, WATFORD, WD19 7SF
ODS code E82655
3.0 km
CONSULTING ROOMS
THE CONSULTING ROOMS, OXHEY DRIVE, WATFORD, WD19 7RU
ODS code E82020
3.1 km
ELLIOTT HALL MEDICAL CTR.
165-167 UXBRIDGE ROAD, HATCH END, PINNER, HA5 4EA
ODS code E84061
3.7 km
SCHOPWICK SURGERY
EVERETT COURT, ROMELAND, ELSTREE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 3BJ
ODS code E82043
3.7 km
WATFORD HEALTH CENTRE
GROUND FLOOR, COLNE HOUSE, 21 UPTON ROAD, WATFORD, WD18 0JP
ODS code E82045
3.8 km
SUTHERGREY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
37A ST. JOHNS ROAD, WATFORD, WD17 1LS
ODS code E82015
4.0 km
ASPRI MEDICAL CENTRE
1 LONG ELMES, HARROW WEALD, HARROW, HA3 5LE
ODS code E84658
4.1 km
HATCH END MEDICAL CENTRE
577 UXBRIDGE ROAD, HATCH END, PINNER, HA5 4RD
ODS code E84053
4.2 km
THE ELMS SURGERY
38 THE AVENUE, WATFORD, WD17 4NT
ODS code E82069
4.3 km
ENDERLEY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
ENDERLEY ROAD MEDICAL CTR, 41-45 ENDERLEY ROAD, HARROW, HA3 5HF
ODS code E84009
4.4 km
HEADSTONE LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
238 HEADSTONE LANE, NORTH HARROW, HARROW, HA2 6LY
ODS code E84676
4.7 km
BELMONT HEALTH CENTRE
516 KENTON LANE, KENTON, HARROW, HA3 7LT
ODS code E84069
4.9 km
THE CIRCLE PRACTICE
BELMONT HEALTH CENTRE, 516 KENTON LANE, HARROW, HA3 7LT
ODS code E84004
4.9 km
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code E82013
5.0 km
SAS WEST HERTS
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code Y08362
5.0 km
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
Police Station Lane
BCT · Bushey
- 0.2 miles
Police Station Lane
BCT · Bushey
- 0.2 miles
Merry Hill Road
BCT · Bushey Heath
- 0.2 miles
Steeplands
BCT · Bushey
- 0.2 miles
Steeplands
BCT · Bushey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hertsmere 013E, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,853 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
1,181 published events cover 12 months, averaging 98.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 483 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.