Amersham
Amersham is covered by postcode districts HP5, HP6, HP7 and HP8. It is in the Buckinghamshire council area, England.
Every postcode in Amersham, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 5
- At medium risk at worst: 5
- At low risk at worst: 18
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 505
Of the 533 postcodes in Amersham that ONS places, 5 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at medium risk at worst, 18 are at low risk at worst and 505 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.6751, longitude -0.6030. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
The postcodes at high risk
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Amersham?
Homes sold for a typical £788,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 352 of the 512 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 19 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 28 of its 533 postcodes. It has 9 primary schools and 2 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Amersham, 350 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Amersham?
Homes in Amersham sold for a typical £788,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 157 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £705,000 from 255 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £995,000 53 sales
- Semi-detached £797,000 46 sales
- Terraced £658,000 26 sales
- Flat or maisonette £350,500 32 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole HP6 district, Amersham's main postcode district: a typical £790,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Amersham: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Amersham?
16 of the 533 postcodes now in use in Amersham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 255 homes sold in Amersham were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the HP6 district, 0%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Amersham | Across the HP6 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 157 (0%) | 0 of 137 (0%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 0 of 255 (0%) | 0 of 193 (0%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Amersham?
Ofcom reports on 512 of the 533 postcodes in Amersham. At 352 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Amersham at risk of flooding?
28 of the 533 postcodes in Amersham have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 19 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Amersham?
The open schools at the postcodes in Amersham (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- Woodside Junior School650 m 240 pupils, 240 places
- Chestnut Lane School850 m 206 pupils, 210 places
- St George's Church of England Infant School900 m 158 pupils, 180 places
- Elangeni School950 m 240 pupils, 240 places
- Heatherton School1.0 km 149 pupils, 180 places
- St Mary's CofE Primary School, Amersham1.3 km 303 pupils, 339 places
- Chesham Bois Church of England School1.4 km 218 pupils, 218 places
- The Beacon School1.6 km 453 pupils, 570 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Amersham?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Amersham is Amersham Rail Station, 350 m away in a straight line.
- Amersham Rail Station Railway station 350 mWalk
- Chalfont & Latimer Rail Station Railway station 3.0 kmCycle
- Chorleywood Rail Station Railway station 6.3 kmDrive
- Amersham Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 350 mWalk
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Amersham?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Amersham. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Amersham Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01494 434344 100 mWalk
- Rectory Meadow Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2025 · Phone 01494 727711 1.2 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Amersham safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 810 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Amersham over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 72 September 2025
- 51 October 2025
- 61 November 2025
- 64 December 2025
- 70 January 2026
- 46 February 2026
- 64 March 2026
- 62 April 2026
- 73 May 2026
- 76 June 2026
- 92 July 2026
- 79 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 34, other crime 28, bicycle theft 11, robbery 11, theft from the person 9, possession of weapons 6.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Amersham?
- Council
- Buckinghamshire
- Parliamentary constituency
- Chesham and Amersham
- Police force area
- Thames Valley
- Region
- South East
- Country
- England
- MP
- Sarah Green (Liberal Democrat)
All 533 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.
Moving to Amersham
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Buckinghamshire about council tax Council tax, on buckinghamshire.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Amersham
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Amersham postcodes
533 postcodes in use in Amersham, by district:
Those districts are all in the HP postcode area.
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Places near Amersham
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Amersham's £788,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Amersham
- What is the postcode for Amersham?
- Postcode districts HP5, HP6, HP7 and HP8, with 533 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Amersham in?
- Buckinghamshire. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Amersham?
- Sarah Green (Liberal Democrat), for Chesham and Amersham. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Amersham?
- A typical £788,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 157 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Amersham?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Woodside Junior School, Chestnut Lane School and St George's Church of England Infant School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Dr Challoner's Grammar School and Amersham School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Amersham have a railway station?
- Yes: Amersham station, 350 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Amersham?
- Ofcom reports on 512 of the 533 postcodes in Amersham. At 352 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Amersham at risk of flooding?
- 28 of the 533 postcodes in Amersham have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 19 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Amersham?
- 16 of the 533 postcodes now in use in Amersham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 255 homes sold in Amersham were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the HP6 district, 0%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
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