Property market
The five-year median is £230,000 from 1 recorded sale in SN2 1BL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Swindon is £265,666 in June 2026, up 4.4% year on year.
SN2 1BL
Gorse Hill · Swindon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Swindon
- Ward
- Gorse Hill
- Local authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon North
- Postcode district
- SN2
- Postcode sector
- SN2 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SN2 1BL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SN
- Postcode district
- SN2
- Postcode sector
- SN2 1
- Latitude
- 51.569947
- Longitude
- -1.779303
- British National Grid easting
- 415,392
- British National Grid northing
- 185,698
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Swindon · E06000030
- Electoral ward
- Gorse Hill · E05016285
- Parish or community
- E04012663
- Westminster constituency
- Swindon North · E14001536
- Output area
- E00078422
- Lower layer super output area
- Swindon 010D · E01015511
- Middle layer super output area
- Swindon 010 · E02003221
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 SN2
Property
31 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 11, Suffolk Street, Gorse Hill, Swindon, SN2 1BL | 12 November 2025 | £230,000 |
| 5, Suffolk Street, Gorse Hill, Swindon, SN2 1BL | 22 November 2019 | £153,000 |
| 2, Suffolk Street, Gorse Hill, Swindon, SN2 1BL | 30 January 2017 | £134,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 80
- Primary
- 58
- Secondary
- 11
- 492 m
Gorse Hill Primary School
Academy converter
- 753 m
EOTAS Swindon
Pupil referral unit
- 952 m
Ferndale Primary School & Nursery
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,196
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,188
- Anti social behaviour 889
- Shoplifting 711
- Public order 581
- Criminal damage and arson 426
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 55
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- SN2 1 residents
- 14,221
28 female, 27 male
Age bands in SN2 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.7%
2,780 residents
1,651 residents
4,136 residents
3,859 residents
2,140 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SN2 1 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
15
within 5 km
HAWTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE
MAY CLOSE, CRICKLADE ROAD, SWINDON, SN2 1UU
ODS code J83027
742 m
WHALEBRIDGE PRACTICE
THE WHALEBRIDGE PRACTICE, SWINDON NHS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 ISLINGTON ST, SWINDON, SN1 2DQ
ODS code J83033
866 m
VICTORIA CROSS SURGERY
168-169 VICTORIA ROAD, SWINDON, SN1 3BU
ODS code J83633
1.7 km
PARK LANE PRACTICE
7-9 PARK LANE, SWINDON, SN1 5HG
ODS code J83646
1.7 km
KINGSWOOD SURGERY
KINGSWOOD AVENUE, PARK NORTH, SWINDON, SN3 2RJ
ODS code J83038
2.3 km
OLD TOWN SURGERY
CURIE AVENUE, OKUS, SWINDON, SN1 4GB
ODS code J83022
2.5 km
THE LAWN MEDICAL CENTRE
GUILDFORD AVENUE, SWINDON, SN3 1JL
ODS code J83059
2.7 km
MERCHISTON SURGERY
HIGHWORTH ROAD, STRATTON ST MARGARET, SWINDON, SN3 4BF
ODS code J83001
2.9 km
PRIORY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK SOUTH, SWINDON, SN3 2EZ
ODS code J83024
2.9 km
NORTH SWINDON PRACTICE
HOME GROUND SURGERY, THAMES AVENUE, SWINDON, SN25 1QQ
ODS code J83057
3.2 km
ABBEY MEADS MEDICAL PRACT
ABBEYMEADS VILLAGE CENTRE, ELSTREE WAY, SWINDON, SN25 4YZ
ODS code J83035
3.3 km
ELDENE SURGERY
COLINGSMEAD, ELDENE, SWINDON, SN3 3TQ
ODS code J83047
3.3 km
PHOENIX SURGERY
DUNWICH DRIVE, TOOTHILL, SWINDON, SN5 8SX
ODS code J83645
3.5 km
ASHINGTON HOUSE SURGERY
ASHINGTON HOUSE, ASHINGTON WAY, WESTLEA, SWINDON, SN5 7XY
ODS code J83036
3.6 km
RIDGE GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
RIDGE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, SHAW VILLAGE CENTRE, RAMLEAZE DRIVE, SHAW, SWINDON, SN5 5PX
ODS code J83064
4.0 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Gorse Hill South
BCT · Gorse Hill
- 0.1 miles
Gorse Hill South
BCT · Gorse Hill
- 0.2 miles
St Barnabas Church
BCT · Gorse Hill
- 0.2 miles
St Barnabas Church
BCT · Gorse Hill
- 0.2 miles
Norman Road
BCT · Gorse Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swindon 010D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,144 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
80 open schools are in scope, including 58 primary and 11 secondary schools. Gorse Hill Primary School is the nearest published school at 492 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
6,196 published events cover 12 months, averaging 516.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,188 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.