Schools
41 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 5 secondary schools. Meryfield Primary School is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD6 4ZD
Borehamwood Brookmeadow · Hertsmere · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD6 4ZD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- 1 January 2001
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD6
- Postcode sector
- WD6 4
- Latitude
- 51.664898
- Longitude
- -0.286941
- British National Grid easting
- 518,573
- British National Grid northing
- 197,624
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
- E00119512
- Lower layer super output area
- Hertsmere 007A · E01023529
- 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
- 41
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 5
- 0 m
Meryfield Primary School
Academy converter
- 703 m
Parkside Community Primary School
Foundation school
- 947 m
Cowley Hill School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,566
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 914
- Anti social behaviour 386
- Shoplifting 279
- Public order 193
- Criminal damage and arson 153
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
THE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
BOREHAMWOOD SHOPPING CENTRE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 4PR
ODS code E82117
1.1 km
FAIRBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
4 FAIRWAY AVENUE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 1PR
ODS code E82012
1.2 km
SCHOPWICK SURGERY
EVERETT COURT, ROMELAND, ELSTREE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 3BJ
ODS code E82043
2.3 km
THE RED HOUSE GROUP
THE RED HOUSE SURGERY, 124 WATLING STREET, RADLETT, WD7 7JQ
ODS code E82085
2.9 km
JAI MEDICAL CENTRE
114 EDGWAREBURY LANE, EDGWARE, HA8 8NB
ODS code E83038
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Anthony Road
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.1 miles
Anthony Road
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.1 miles
Stevenage Crescent
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.1 miles
Stevenage Crescent
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.1 miles
Theobald Street
BCT · Borehamwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hertsmere 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,076 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
2,566 published events cover 12 months, averaging 213.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 914 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.