Property market
The five-year median is £318,000 from 14 recorded sales in SN12 7AA. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Wiltshire is £328,908 in June 2026, up 2.7% year on year.
SN12 7AA
Melksham Forest · Wiltshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Melksham
- Ward
- Melksham Forest
- Local authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes
- Postcode district
- SN12
- Postcode sector
- SN12 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SN12 7AA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SN
- Postcode district
- SN12
- Postcode sector
- SN12 7
- Latitude
- 51.378467
- Longitude
- -2.131355
- British National Grid easting
- 390,954
- British National Grid northing
- 164,388
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Wiltshire · E06000054
- Electoral ward
- Melksham Forest · E05016253
- Parish or community
- E04013041
- Westminster constituency
- Melksham and Devizes · E14001356
- Output area
- E00163539
- Lower layer super output area
- Wiltshire 020C · E01032065
- Middle layer super output area
- Wiltshire 020 · E02006678
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 SN12
Property
73 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 16, Forest Road, Melksham, SN12 7AA | 16 April 2026 | £385,000 |
| 32, Forest Road, Melksham, SN12 7AA | 24 October 2025 | £315,000 |
| 9, Forest Road, Melksham, SN12 7AA | 24 October 2025 | £450,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 1
- 194 m
River Mead School
Academy sponsor led
- 531 m
The Manor CofE VC Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Melksham House School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,269
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 523
- Anti social behaviour 258
- Criminal damage and arson 105
- Public order 91
- Shoplifting 83
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 121
- Postcode households
- 46
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- SN12 7 residents
- 11,839
52 female, 69 male
Age bands in SN12 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.4%
2,085 residents
1,088 residents
2,744 residents
3,005 residents
2,293 residents
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SN12 7 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
- 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
2
within 5 km
GIFFORDS PRIMARY CARE CTR
SPA ROAD, MELKSHAM, SN12 7EA
ODS code J83011
1.2 km
SPA MEDICAL CENTRE
SNOWBERRY LANE, MELKSHAM, SN12 6UN
ODS code J83046
1.3 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
Forest Road
BCT · Melksham Forest
- 0.1 miles
Forest Road
BCT · Melksham Forest
- 0.2 miles
St Margaret's Gardens
BCT · Melksham Forest
- 0.2 miles
St Margaret's Gardens
BCT · Melksham Forest
- 0.2 miles
King George Park
BCT · Melksham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wiltshire 020C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,764 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
13 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 1 secondary schools. River Mead School is the nearest published school at 194 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,269 published events cover 12 months, averaging 105.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 523 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.