Schools
50 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 5 secondary schools. Yavneh College is the nearest published school at 386 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD6 1TB
Borehamwood Hillside · Hertsmere · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Borehamwood Hillside
- Local authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere
- Postcode district
- WD6
- Postcode sector
- WD6 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD6 1TB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- 1 December 2009
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD6
- Postcode sector
- WD6 1
- Latitude
- 51.655688
- Longitude
- -0.273308
- British National Grid easting
- 519,540
- British National Grid northing
- 196,622
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Hertsmere · E07000098
- Electoral ward
- Borehamwood Hillside · E05012182
- Parish or community
- E04004763
- Westminster constituency
- Hertsmere · E14001284
- Output area
- E00119561
- Lower layer super output area
- Hertsmere 011F · E01035598
- Middle layer super output area
- Hertsmere 011 · E02004906
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 WD6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 50
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 5
- 386 m
Yavneh College
Academy converter
- 516 m
Yavneh Primary School
Free schools
- 529 m
St Teresa Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,420
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,183
- Anti social behaviour 500
- Shoplifting 296
- Other theft 275
- Public order 233
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WD6 1 residents
- 9,584
Age bands in WD6 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 35.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.4%
2,011 residents
849 residents
3,370 residents
2,076 residents
1,070 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.
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
- 0%
- 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
THE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
BOREHAMWOOD SHOPPING CENTRE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 4PR
ODS code E82117
309 m
FAIRBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
4 FAIRWAY AVENUE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 1PR
ODS code E82012
462 m
SCHOPWICK SURGERY
EVERETT COURT, ROMELAND, ELSTREE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 3BJ
ODS code E82043
2.1 km
JAI MEDICAL CENTRE
114 EDGWAREBURY LANE, EDGWARE, HA8 8NB
ODS code E83038
3.8 km
THE RED HOUSE GROUP
THE RED HOUSE SURGERY, 124 WATLING STREET, RADLETT, WD7 7JQ
ODS code E82085
4.3 km
PENSHURST GARDENS SURGERY
39 PENSHURST GARDENS, EDGWARE, HA8 9TN
ODS code E83030
4.4 km
DR SP TALPAHEWA
MEDICAL CENTRE, 156 DEANS LANE, EDGWARE, HA8 9NT
ODS code E83668
4.5 km
LANE END MEDICAL GROUP
2 PENSHURST GARDENS, EDGWARE, HA8 9GJ
ODS code E83053
4.5 km
MULBERRY MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 SEFTON AVENUE, MILL HILL, LONDON, NW7 3QB
ODS code E83046
4.6 km
MILLWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 HARTLEY AVENUE, MILL HILL, LONDON, NW7 2HX
ODS code E83016
5.0 km
THE OLD COURT HOUSE SURGERY
27 WOOD STREET, BARNET, EN5 4BB
ODS code E83012
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Furzehill Road
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.1 miles
Furzehill Road
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.1 miles
Baptist Church
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.1 miles
Mildred Avenue
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.2 miles
Tesco
BCT · Borehamwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hertsmere 011F, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,523 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
3,420 published events cover 12 months, averaging 285 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,183 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.