Property market
The five-year median is £145,000 from 4 recorded sales in SA5 8DR. 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 8DR
Cockett · Swansea · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SA5 8DR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SA
- Postcode district
- SA5
- Postcode sector
- SA5 8
- Latitude
- 51.641799
- Longitude
- -3.966124
- British National Grid easting
- 264,050
- British National Grid northing
- 195,497
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
- W00004090
- Lower layer super output area
- Swansea 013C · W01000762
- 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
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 29, Weig Gardens, Gendros, Swansea, SA5 8DR | 24 February 2025 | £160,000 |
| 27, Weig Gardens, Gendros, Swansea, SA5 8DR | 28 March 2024 | £150,000 |
| 5, Weig Gardens, Gendros, Swansea, SA5 8DR | 1 November 2023 | £140,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 45
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 340 m
Clwyd Community Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 501 m
Gendros Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 950 m
Portmead Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,166
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,335
- Public order 335
- Shoplifting 309
- Anti social behaviour 306
- Criminal damage and arson 277
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 124
- 59 female, 65 male
- Postcode households
- 37
- Residents per household
- 3.4
- SA5 8 residents
- 7,786
Age bands in SA5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- 1,427 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.5%
- 906 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.4%
- 1,999 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- 2,032 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 19%
- 1,492 residents
This postcode contained 1.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SA5 8 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
- 83.3%
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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
20
within 5 km straight-line
DR BENSUSAN & PARTNERS
PR2 FFORESTFACH MEDICL CENTRE, RAVENHILL ROAD, RAVENHILL, SWANSEA, SA5 5AA
ODS code W98007
554 m
DR POWELL & PARTNERS
PR1 FFORESTFACH MEDICAL CENTRE, RAVENHILL ROAD, RAVENHILL, SWANSEA, SA5 5AA
ODS code W98028
554 m
MANSELTON SURGERY
ELGIN STREET, MANSELTON, SWANSEA, SA5 8QE
ODS code W98043
904 m
CHERITON MEDICAL CENTRE
CHERITON CRESCENT, PORTMEAD, SWANSEA, SA5 5LA
ODS code W98612
932 m
MAYHILL SURGERY
MOUNTAIN VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, 51 MAYHILL ROAD, MAYHILL, SWANSEA, SA1 6TD
ODS code W98015
1.5 km
BRYNHYFRYD MEDICAL CENTRE
499 LLANGYFELACH ROAD, BRYNHYFRYD, SWANSEA, SA5 9EA
ODS code W98004
1.5 km
CWMFELIN MEDICAL CENTRE
298 CARMARTHEN ROAD, SWANSEA, SA1 1HW
ODS code W98003
1.5 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
6 UPLANDS TERRACE, UPLANDS, SWANSEA, SA2 0GU
ODS code W98023
2.5 km
CLASE SURGERY
GREENHILL MEDICAL CENTRE, 88 MYNYDD GARNLWYD ROAD, MORRISTON, SWANSEA, SA6 7NZ
ODS code W98039
2.6 km
UPLANDS & MUMBLES SURGERY
46-48 SKETTY ROAD, SWANSEA, SA2 0LJ
ODS code W98049
2.6 km
NICHOLL STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
NICHOLL ST MEDICAL CENTR, 33 NICHOLL STREET, SWANSEA, SA1 4HF
ODS code W98020
2.6 km
KINGSWAY SURGERY
37 THE KINGSWAY, SWANSEA, SA1 5LF
ODS code W98027
2.7 km
ABERTAWE MEDICAL PARTNERS
151 ST. HELENS ROAD, SWANSEA, SA1 4DF
ODS code W98608
2.8 km
BRUNSWICK HEALTH CENTRE
PHILLIPS PARADE, SWANSEA, SA1 4JL
ODS code W98024
2.8 km
SKETTY & KILLAY MEDICAL CENTRE
SKETTY SURGERY, DE LA BECHE ROAD, SKETTY, SWANSEA, SA2 9EA
ODS code W98021
3.1 km
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE
PENMAEN RESIDENCES, SINGLETON PARK, SWANSEA, SA2 8PG
ODS code W98053
3.7 km
HARBOURSIDE HEALTH CENTRE
BEACON CENTRE FOR HEALTH, LANGDON ROAD, SWANSEA, SA1 8QY
ODS code W98056
3.7 km
THE BEACON CENTRE FOR HEALTH
SA1 MEDICAL CENTRE, LANGDON ROAD, SWANSEA, SA1 8QY
ODS code W98057
3.7 km
STRAWBERRY PLACE SURGERY
5 STRAWBERRY PLACE, MORRISTON, SWANSEA, SA6 7AQ
ODS code W98044
3.8 km
ST. THOMAS SURGERY
YSGOL STREET, PORT TENNANT, SWANSEA, SA1 8LH
ODS code W98016
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 108 m
Weig Gardens
BCT · Gendros
- 138 m
Conway Road Roundabout
BCT · Gendros
- 138 m
Gendros Community Centre
BCT · Gendros
- 185 m
Conway Road Roundabout
BCT · Gendros
- 195 m
Conway Road Roundabout
BCT · Gendros
Evidence in context
Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Clwyd Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 340 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,166 published events cover 12 months, averaging 264 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,335 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.