Property market
The five-year median is £272,500 from 1 recorded sale in SN12 8BE. 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 8BE
Melksham Without North & Shurnhold · Wiltshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Melksham
- Local authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes
- Postcode district
- SN12
- Postcode sector
- SN12 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SN12 8BE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SN
- Postcode district
- SN12
- Postcode sector
- SN12 8
- Latitude
- 51.383799
- Longitude
- -2.139734
- British National Grid easting
- 390,372
- British National Grid northing
- 164,982
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Wiltshire · E06000054
- Electoral ward
- Melksham Without North & Shurnhold · E05013448
- Parish or community
- E04013041
- Westminster constituency
- Melksham and Devizes · E14001356
- Output area
- E00163536
- Lower layer super output area
- Wiltshire 020A · E01032063
- 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
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Trent Crescent, Melksham, SN12 8BE | 19 September 2025 | £272,500 |
| 4, Trent Crescent, Melksham, SN12 8BE | 29 January 2016 | £258,000 |
| 1, Trent Crescent, Melksham, SN12 8BE | 7 June 2012 | £162,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 1
- 754 m
River Mead School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.1 km
The Manor CofE VC Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Melksham House School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 983
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 391
- Anti social behaviour 199
- Criminal damage and arson 86
- Public order 80
- Shoplifting 76
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- SN12 8 residents
- 6,416
6 female, 4 male
Age bands in SN12 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.2%
1,063 residents
648 residents
1,421 residents
1,715 residents
1,635 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SN12 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
- 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
1.9 km
SPA MEDICAL CENTRE
SNOWBERRY LANE, MELKSHAM, SN12 6UN
ODS code J83046
2.1 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
Thames Crescent
BCT · Melksham
- 0.1 miles
Thames Crescent
BCT · Melksham
- 0.1 miles
Portman Road
BCT · Melksham
- 0.2 miles
Leekes
BCT · Melksham
- 0.2 miles
Granville Road
BCT · Melksham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wiltshire 020A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,813 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 0
- 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 754 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
983 published events cover 12 months, averaging 81.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 391 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.