Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 5 secondary schools. Cowley Hill School is the nearest published school at 259 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD6 5HF
Borehamwood Cowley Hill · Hertsmere · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD6 5HF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2003
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD6
- Postcode sector
- WD6 5
- Latitude
- 51.662827
- Longitude
- -0.275075
- British National Grid easting
- 519,399
- British National Grid northing
- 197,413
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Hertsmere · E07000098
- Electoral ward
- Borehamwood Cowley Hill · E05012181
- Parish or community
- E04004763
- Westminster constituency
- Hertsmere · E14001284
- Output area
- E00119535
- Lower layer super output area
- Hertsmere 006E · E01023538
- Middle layer super output area
- Hertsmere 006 · E02004901
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
- 42
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 5
- 259 m
Cowley Hill School
Community school
- 410 m
St Teresa Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 492 m
Woodlands Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,347
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,170
- Anti social behaviour 508
- Shoplifting 297
- Other theft 261
- Public order 233
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WD6 5 residents
- 8,959
Age bands in WD6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.2%
1,614 residents
913 residents
2,508 residents
2,221 residents
1,202 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
FAIRBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
4 FAIRWAY AVENUE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 1PR
ODS code E82012
395 m
THE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
BOREHAMWOOD SHOPPING CENTRE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 4PR
ODS code E82117
718 m
SCHOPWICK SURGERY
EVERETT COURT, ROMELAND, ELSTREE, BOREHAMWOOD, WD6 3BJ
ODS code E82043
2.6 km
THE RED HOUSE GROUP
THE RED HOUSE SURGERY, 124 WATLING STREET, RADLETT, WD7 7JQ
ODS code E82085
3.7 km
JAI MEDICAL CENTRE
114 EDGWAREBURY LANE, EDGWARE, HA8 8NB
ODS code E83038
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Aberford Road
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.0 miles
Fountain Court
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.0 miles
Fountain Court
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.0 miles
Aberford Road
BCT · Borehamwood
- 0.1 miles
Brook Road
BCT · Borehamwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hertsmere 006E, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,130 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
3,347 published events cover 12 months, averaging 278.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,170 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.