Property market
The five-year median is £629,000 from 6 recorded sales in GU18 5RA. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Surrey Heath is £461,396 in June 2026, up 6.1% year on year.
GU18 5RA
Lightwater · Surrey Heath · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Lightwater
- Ward
- Lightwater
- Local authority
- Surrey Heath
- Constituency
- Surrey Heath
- Postcode district
- GU18
- Postcode sector
- GU18 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GU18 5RA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- GU
- Postcode district
- GU18
- Postcode sector
- GU18 5
- Latitude
- 51.352379
- Longitude
- -0.667977
- British National Grid easting
- 492,854
- British National Grid northing
- 162,320
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Surrey Heath · E07000214
- Electoral ward
- Lightwater · E05012031
- Parish or community
- E04009582
- Westminster constituency
- Surrey Heath · E14001532
- Output area
- E00156965
- Lower layer super output area
- Surrey Heath 003D · E01030781
- Middle layer super output area
- Surrey Heath 003 · E02006418
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 GU18
Property
28 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 115, Guildford Road, Lightwater, GU18 5RA | 31 March 2025 | £450,000 |
| 153, Guildford Road, Lightwater, GU18 5RA | 2 August 2024 | £558,000 |
| 149, Guildford Road, Lightwater, GU18 5RA | 16 February 2024 | £700,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 417 m
Lightwater Village Infant School and Nursery
Academy converter
- 783 m
Lightwater Village Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Connaught Junior School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 484
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 132
- Anti social behaviour 86
- Shoplifting 81
- Other theft 70
- Public order 27
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 41
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- GU18 5 residents
- 6,609
21 female, 20 male
Age bands in GU18 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.7%
937 residents
587 residents
1,323 residents
2,077 residents
1,613 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider GU18 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 100%
- 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
- 100%
- 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
LIGHTWATER SURGERY
ALL SAINTS ROAD, LIGHTWATER, GU18 5SQ
ODS code H81130
282 m
PARK HOUSE SURGERY
6 PARK STREET, BAGSHOT, GU19 5AQ
ODS code H81039
2.1 km
CHOBHAM & WEST END MEDICAL PRACTICE
16 WINDSOR ROAD, CHOBHAM, WOKING, GU24 8NA
ODS code H81015
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lovells Close
BCT · Lightwater
- 0.1 miles
Lovells Close
BCT · Lightwater
- 0.2 miles
War Memorial
BCT · Lightwater
- 0.2 miles
War Memorial
BCT · Lightwater
- 0.2 miles
Ambleside Road East
BCT · Lightwater
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Surrey Heath 003D, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,152 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. Lightwater Village Infant School and Nursery is the nearest published school at 417 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
484 published events cover 12 months, averaging 40.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 132 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.