Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 6 secondary schools. Yavneh College is the nearest published school at 896 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD6 4AR
Borehamwood Brookmeadow · Hertsmere · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD6 4AR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1987
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD6
- Postcode sector
- WD6 4
- Latitude
- 51.654706
- Longitude
- -0.281152
- British National Grid easting
- 519,000
- British National Grid northing
- 196,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Hertsmere · E07000098
- Electoral ward
- Borehamwood Brookmeadow · E05012180
- Parish or community
- E04004763
- Westminster constituency
- Hertsmere · E14001284
- Output area
- E00119508
- Lower layer super output area
- Hertsmere 007D · E01023532
- Middle layer super output area
- Hertsmere 007 · E02004902
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
- 54
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 6
- 896 m
Yavneh College
Academy converter
- 936 m
St Teresa Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.0 km
Yavneh Primary School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,879
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,023
- Anti social behaviour 423
- Shoplifting 282
- Public order 208
- Criminal damage and arson 189
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WD6 4 residents
- 8,330
Age bands in WD6 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.6%
1,891 residents
1,015 residents
2,571 residents
2,111 residents
1,092 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
10
within 5 km straight-line
THE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
BOREHAMWOOD SHOPPING CENTRE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 4PR
ODS code E82117
324 m
FAIRBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
4 FAIRWAY AVENUE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 1PR
ODS code E82012
841 m
SCHOPWICK SURGERY
EVERETT COURT, ROMELAND, ELSTREE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 3BJ
ODS code E82043
1.6 km
JAI MEDICAL CENTRE
114 EDGWAREBURY LANE, EDGWARE, HA8 8NB
ODS code E83038
3.6 km
THE RED HOUSE GROUP
THE RED HOUSE SURGERY, 124 WATLING STREET, RADLETT, WD7 7JQ
ODS code E82085
4.0 km
PENSHURST GARDENS SURGERY
39 PENSHURST GARDENS, EDGWARE, HA8 9TN
ODS code E83030
4.3 km
LANE END MEDICAL GROUP
2 PENSHURST GARDENS, EDGWARE, HA8 9GJ
ODS code E83053
4.4 km
DR SP TALPAHEWA
MEDICAL CENTRE, 156 DEANS LANE, EDGWARE, HA8 9NT
ODS code E83668
4.5 km
MULBERRY MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 SEFTON AVENUE, MILL HILL, LONDON, NW7 3QB
ODS code E83046
4.7 km
LITTLE BUSHEY SURGERY
CALIFORNIA LANE, BUSHEY HEATH, BUSHEY, WD23 1EZ
ODS code E82657
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Elstree & Borehamwood Railway Station
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.1 miles
Elstree & Borehamwood Railway Station
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.1 miles
Glenhaven Avenue
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.1 miles
Deacons Hill Road
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.1 miles
Glenhaven Avenue
BCT · Borehamwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hertsmere 007D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,780 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
2,879 published events cover 12 months, averaging 239.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,023 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.