Schools
55 open schools are in scope, including 37 primary and 8 secondary schools. York House School is the nearest published school at 712 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD3 3JE
Dickinsons · Three Rivers · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dickinsons
- Local authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire
- Postcode district
- WD3
- Postcode sector
- WD3 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD3 3JE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2009
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD3
- Postcode sector
- WD3 3
- Latitude
- 51.656535
- Longitude
- -0.456826
- British National Grid easting
- 506,844
- British National Grid northing
- 196,432
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Three Rivers · E07000102
- Electoral ward
- Dickinsons · E05009429
- Parish or community
- E04012293
- Westminster constituency
- South West Hertfordshire · E14001496
- Output area
- E00120951
- Lower layer super output area
- Three Rivers 006B · E01023820
- Middle layer super output area
- Three Rivers 006 · E02004961
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 WD3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 55
- Primary
- 37
- Secondary
- 8
- 712 m
York House School
Other independent school
- 784 m
Yorke Mead Primary School
Community school
- 809 m
Little Green Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 466
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 212
- Anti social behaviour 77
- Other theft 37
- Vehicle crime 31
- Criminal damage and arson 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WD3 3 residents
- 12,571
Age bands in WD3 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.8%
2,484 residents
1,287 residents
2,876 residents
3,531 residents
2,362 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
NEW ROAD SURGERY
166 NEW ROAD, CROXLEY GREEN, RICKMANSWORTH, WD3 3HD
ODS code E82106
1.2 km
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code E82013
2.5 km
SAS WEST HERTS
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code Y08362
2.5 km
GADE AND CHORLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRES
GADE HOUSE, 99B UXBRIDGE ROAD, RICKMANSWORTH, WD3 7DJ
ODS code E82068
2.8 km
THE COLNE PRACTICE
COLNE HOUSE SURGERY, 99A UXBRIDGE ROAD, RICKMANSWORTH, WD3 7DJ
ODS code E82083
2.8 km
THE ELMS SURGERY
38 THE AVENUE, WATFORD, WD17 4NT
ODS code E82069
3.7 km
WATFORD HEALTH CENTRE
GROUND FLOOR, COLNE HOUSE, 21 UPTON ROAD, WATFORD, WD18 0JP
ODS code E82045
3.9 km
SUTHERGREY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
37A ST. JOHNS ROAD, WATFORD, WD17 1LS
ODS code E82015
3.9 km
MOUNTWOOD SURGERY
RICKMANSWORTH ROAD, NORTHWOOD, HA6 2RG
ODS code E86001
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Copthorne Road
BCT · Croxley Green
- 0.4 miles
Grove Crescent
BCT · Croxley Green
- 0.4 miles
Copthorne Road
BCT · Croxley Green
- 0.4 miles
Model Farm
BCT · Chandlers Cross
- 0.4 miles
Dulwich Way
BCT · Croxley Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Three Rivers 006B, 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
32,983 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
466 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 212 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.