Property market
The five-year median is £136,000 from 11 recorded sales in SA5 4BR. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Swansea is £206,059 in June 2026, up 0.2% year on year.
SA5 4BR
Cockett · Swansea · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SA5 4BR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SA
- Postcode district
- SA5
- Postcode sector
- SA5 4
- Latitude
- 51.650642
- Longitude
- -3.995779
- British National Grid easting
- 262,025
- British National Grid northing
- 196,536
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Swansea · W06000011
- Electoral ward
- Cockett · W05001043
- Parish or community
- W04001034
- Westminster constituency
- Gower · W07000097
- Output area
- W00004078
- Lower layer super output area
- Swansea 013A · W01000760
- Middle layer super output area
- Swansea 013 · W02000180
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 SA5
Property
60 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1374, Carmarthen Road, Fforestfach, Swansea, SA5 4BR | 12 March 2025 | £178,000 |
| 1361, Carmarthen Road, Fforestfach, Swansea, SA5 4BR | 9 August 2024 | £127,500 |
| 1338, Carmarthen Road, Fforestfach, Swansea, SA5 4BR | 23 February 2024 | £220,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 45
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 824 m
Cadle Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 1.6 km
Blaenymaes Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 1.6 km
Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Y Login Fach
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,010
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 350
- Shoplifting 203
- Public order 99
- Anti social behaviour 91
- Criminal damage and arson 75
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 80
- Postcode households
- 37
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- SA5 4 residents
- 5,624
42 female, 38 male
Age bands in SA5 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.6%
861 residents
568 residents
1,364 residents
1,545 residents
1,127 residents
This postcode contained 1.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SA5 4 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 85%
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
19
within 5 km
CHERITON MEDICAL CENTRE
CHERITON CRESCENT, PORTMEAD, SWANSEA, SA5 5LA
ODS code W98612
1.7 km
DR BENSUSAN & PARTNERS
PR2 FFORESTFACH MEDICL CENTRE, RAVENHILL ROAD, RAVENHILL, SWANSEA, SA5 5AA
ODS code W98007
1.7 km
DR POWELL & PARTNERS
PR1 FFORESTFACH MEDICAL CENTRE, RAVENHILL ROAD, RAVENHILL, SWANSEA, SA5 5AA
ODS code W98028
1.7 km
MANSELTON SURGERY
ELGIN STREET, MANSELTON, SWANSEA, SA5 8QE
ODS code W98043
3.2 km
ESTUARY GROUP PRACTICE
22 MILL STREET, GOWERTON, SWANSEA, SA4 3ED
ODS code W98012
3.2 km
BRYNHYFRYD MEDICAL CENTRE
499 LLANGYFELACH ROAD, BRYNHYFRYD, SWANSEA, SA5 9EA
ODS code W98004
3.5 km
MAYHILL SURGERY
MOUNTAIN VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, 51 MAYHILL ROAD, MAYHILL, SWANSEA, SA1 6TD
ODS code W98015
3.7 km
TY'R FELIN SURGERY
CECIL ROAD, GORSEINON, SWANSEA, SA4 4BY
ODS code W98034
3.7 km
CWMFELIN MEDICAL CENTRE
298 CARMARTHEN ROAD, SWANSEA, SA1 1HW
ODS code W98003
3.7 km
CLASE SURGERY
GREENHILL MEDICAL CENTRE, 88 MYNYDD GARNLWYD ROAD, MORRISTON, SWANSEA, SA6 7NZ
ODS code W98039
3.8 km
SKETTY & KILLAY MEDICAL CENTRE
SKETTY SURGERY, DE LA BECHE ROAD, SKETTY, SWANSEA, SA2 9EA
ODS code W98021
3.9 km
UPLANDS & MUMBLES SURGERY
46-48 SKETTY ROAD, SWANSEA, SA2 0LJ
ODS code W98049
4.0 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
6 UPLANDS TERRACE, UPLANDS, SWANSEA, SA2 0GU
ODS code W98023
4.1 km
PRINCESS STREET SURGERY
PRINCESS STREET, GORSEINON, SWANSEA, SA4 4US
ODS code W98008
4.1 km
BRUNSWICK HEALTH CENTRE
PHILLIPS PARADE, SWANSEA, SA1 4JL
ODS code W98024
4.6 km
NICHOLL STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
NICHOLL ST MEDICAL CENTR, 33 NICHOLL STREET, SWANSEA, SA1 4HF
ODS code W98020
4.6 km
ABERTAWE MEDICAL PARTNERS
151 ST. HELENS ROAD, SWANSEA, SA1 4DF
ODS code W98608
4.6 km
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE
PENMAEN RESIDENCES, SINGLETON PARK, SWANSEA, SA2 8PG
ODS code W98053
4.7 km
KINGSWAY SURGERY
37 THE KINGSWAY, SWANSEA, SA1 5LF
ODS code W98027
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Ystrad Road
BCT · Fforestfach
- 0.1 miles
Ystrad Road
BCT · Fforestfach
- 0.1 miles
St Illtyd's Church
BCT · Fforestfach
- 0.2 miles
Llwyn Teg
BCT · Cadle
- 0.2 miles
Fforestfach Tesco
BCT · Fforestfach
Evidence in context
Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Cadle Primary School is the nearest published school at 824 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,010 published events cover 12 months, averaging 84.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 350 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.