Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Chenies School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD3 6BZ
Chorleywood North & Sarratt · Three Rivers · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 6BZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD3
- Postcode sector
- WD3 6
- Latitude
- 51.681239
- Longitude
- -0.516376
- British National Grid easting
- 502,669
- British National Grid northing
- 199,094
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
- E00121135
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.3 km
Chenies School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Sarratt Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.0 km
St Clement Danes School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 46
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 14
- Vehicle crime 6
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Burglary 5
- Other theft 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- WD3 6 residents
- 1,360
3 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 0.5% 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+
- 0%
- 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
LITTLE CHALFONT SURGERY
200 WHITE LION ROAD, LITTLE CHALFONT, AMERSHAM, HP7 9NU
ODS code K82621
3.8 km
ARCHWAY SURGERY
52 HIGH STREET, BOVINGDON, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 0HJ
ODS code E82643
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
The Red Lion PH
BCT · Chenies
- 0.7 miles
The Red Lion PH
BCT · Chenies
- 0.8 miles
Combined School
BCT · Chenies
- 0.8 miles
Combined School
BCT · Chenies
- 0.9 miles
Bedford Close
BCT · Chenies
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
46 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 14 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.