Schools
36 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 7 secondary schools. York House School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD3 6AF
Chorleywood North & Sarratt · Three Rivers · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Rickmansworth
- Local authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire
- Postcode district
- WD3
- Postcode sector
- WD3 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD3 6AF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD3
- Postcode sector
- WD3 6
- Latitude
- 51.664645
- Longitude
- -0.480944
- British National Grid easting
- 505,157
- British National Grid northing
- 197,299
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Three Rivers · E07000102
- Electoral ward
- Chorleywood North & Sarratt · E05009427
- Parish or community
- E04004814
- Westminster constituency
- South West Hertfordshire · E14001496
- Output area
- E00121132
- Lower layer super output area
- Three Rivers 003D · E01023854
- Middle layer super output area
- Three Rivers 003 · E02004958
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cherrytrees, Sarratt Lane, Sarratt, Rickmansworth, WD3 6AF | 29 September 2006 | £675,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 7
- 1.5 km
York House School
Other independent school
- 1.7 km
Christ Church Chorleywood CofE School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Charlotte House Preparatory School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 117
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 54
- Public order 19
- Anti social behaviour 11
- Other theft 10
- Drugs 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- WD3 6 residents
- 1,360
4 female, 4 male
Age bands in WD3 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.3%
193 residents
100 residents
188 residents
386 residents
342 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WD3 6 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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
5
within 5 km
NEW ROAD SURGERY
166 NEW ROAD, CROXLEY GREEN, RICKMANSWORTH, WD3 3HD
ODS code E82106
3.0 km
GADE AND CHORLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRES
GADE HOUSE, 99B UXBRIDGE ROAD, RICKMANSWORTH, WD3 7DJ
ODS code E82068
3.1 km
THE COLNE PRACTICE
COLNE HOUSE SURGERY, 99A UXBRIDGE ROAD, RICKMANSWORTH, WD3 7DJ
ODS code E82083
3.1 km
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code E82013
4.3 km
SAS WEST HERTS
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code Y08362
4.3 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Redhall Lane
BCT · Chandlers Cross
- 0.6 miles
Redhall Lane
BCT · Chandlers Cross
- 0.8 miles
The Clump
BCT · Chorleywood
- 0.8 miles
The Clump
BCT · Chorleywood
- 0.8 miles
Troutstream Way
BCT · Chorleywood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Three Rivers 003D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,186 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
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
117 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 54 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.