Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 6 secondary schools. Shepherd Primary is the nearest published school at 156 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD3 8JL
Penn & Mill End · Three Rivers · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Penn & Mill End
- Local authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire
- Postcode district
- WD3
- Postcode sector
- WD3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD3 8JL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 2011
- Terminated
- 1 September 2011
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD3
- Postcode sector
- WD3 8
- Latitude
- 51.637994
- Longitude
- -0.497210
- British National Grid easting
- 504,093
- British National Grid northing
- 194,312
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Three Rivers · E07000102
- Electoral ward
- Penn & Mill End · E05009435
- Parish or community
- E43000252
- Westminster constituency
- South West Hertfordshire · E14001496
- Output area
- E00121095
- Lower layer super output area
- Three Rivers 007A · E01023847
- Middle layer super output area
- Three Rivers 007 · E02004962
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
- 29
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 6
- 156 m
Shepherd Primary
Community school
- 427 m
St John Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 452 m
St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 804
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 278
- Anti social behaviour 132
- Other theft 120
- Shoplifting 92
- Public order 40
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WD3 8 residents
- 6,165
Age bands in WD3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.9%
1,332 residents
690 residents
1,803 residents
1,769 residents
905 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
GADE AND CHORLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRES
GADE HOUSE, 99B UXBRIDGE ROAD, RICKMANSWORTH, WD3 7DJ
ODS code E82068
1.1 km
THE COLNE PRACTICE
COLNE HOUSE SURGERY, 99A UXBRIDGE ROAD, RICKMANSWORTH, WD3 7DJ
ODS code E82083
1.1 km
HAREFIELD PRACTICE
RICKMANSWORTH ROAD, HAREFIELD, UXBRIDGE, UB9 6JY
ODS code E86007
3.5 km
NEW ROAD SURGERY
166 NEW ROAD, CROXLEY GREEN, RICKMANSWORTH, WD3 3HD
ODS code E82106
3.6 km
MOUNTWOOD SURGERY
RICKMANSWORTH ROAD, NORTHWOOD, HA6 2RG
ODS code E86001
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Shepherd JMI School
BCT · Rickmansworth
- 0.1 miles
Shepherd JMI School
BCT · Rickmansworth
- 0.2 miles
Windsor Way
BCT · Rickmansworth
- 0.2 miles
Windsor Way
BCT · Rickmansworth
- 0.2 miles
Springwell Avenue
BCT · Rickmansworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Three Rivers 007A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,349 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
804 published events cover 12 months, averaging 67 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 278 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.