Schools
80 open schools are in scope, including 58 primary and 11 secondary schools. UTC Swindon is the nearest published school at 514 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SN2 1TU
Rodbourne Ferndale & Western · Swindon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon North
- Postcode district
- SN2
- Postcode sector
- SN2 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SN2 1TU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 1984
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SN
- Postcode district
- SN2
- Postcode sector
- SN2 1
- Latitude
- 51.566297
- Longitude
- -1.794340
- British National Grid easting
- 414,351
- British National Grid northing
- 185,289
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Swindon · E06000030
- Electoral ward
- Rodbourne Ferndale & Western · E05016297
- Parish or community
- E04012663
- Westminster constituency
- Swindon North · E14001536
- Output area
- E00177254
- Lower layer super output area
- Swindon 012B · E01015578
- Middle layer super output area
- Swindon 012 · E02003223
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 80
- Primary
- 58
- Secondary
- 11
- 514 m
UTC Swindon
University technical college
- 648 m
EOTAS Swindon
Pupil referral unit
- 687 m
Ferndale Primary School & Nursery
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,851
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,964
- Anti social behaviour 804
- Shoplifting 700
- Public order 550
- Criminal damage and arson 416
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SN2 1 residents
- 14,221
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
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
16
within 5 km
PARK LANE PRACTICE
7-9 PARK LANE, SWINDON, SN1 5HG
ODS code J83646
841 m
WHALEBRIDGE PRACTICE
THE WHALEBRIDGE PRACTICE, SWINDON NHS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 ISLINGTON ST, SWINDON, SN1 2DQ
ODS code J83033
990 m
HAWTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE
MAY CLOSE, CRICKLADE ROAD, SWINDON, SN2 1UU
ODS code J83027
1.6 km
VICTORIA CROSS SURGERY
168-169 VICTORIA ROAD, SWINDON, SN1 3BU
ODS code J83633
1.7 km
OLD TOWN SURGERY
CURIE AVENUE, OKUS, SWINDON, SN1 4GB
ODS code J83022
1.8 km
PHOENIX SURGERY
DUNWICH DRIVE, TOOTHILL, SWINDON, SN5 8SX
ODS code J83645
2.4 km
ASHINGTON HOUSE SURGERY
ASHINGTON HOUSE, ASHINGTON WAY, WESTLEA, SWINDON, SN5 7XY
ODS code J83036
2.4 km
RIDGE GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
RIDGE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, SHAW VILLAGE CENTRE, RAMLEAZE DRIVE, SHAW, SWINDON, SN5 5PX
ODS code J83064
2.9 km
KINGSWOOD SURGERY
KINGSWOOD AVENUE, PARK NORTH, SWINDON, SN3 2RJ
ODS code J83038
3.0 km
NORTH SWINDON PRACTICE
HOME GROUND SURGERY, THAMES AVENUE, SWINDON, SN25 1QQ
ODS code J83057
3.0 km
THE LAWN MEDICAL CENTRE
GUILDFORD AVENUE, SWINDON, SN3 1JL
ODS code J83059
3.0 km
ABBEY MEADS MEDICAL PRACT
ABBEYMEADS VILLAGE CENTRE, ELSTREE WAY, SWINDON, SN25 4YZ
ODS code J83035
3.5 km
PRIORY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK SOUTH, SWINDON, SN3 2EZ
ODS code J83024
3.6 km
MERCHISTON SURGERY
HIGHWORTH ROAD, STRATTON ST MARGARET, SWINDON, SN3 4BF
ODS code J83001
3.9 km
ELDENE SURGERY
COLINGSMEAD, ELDENE, SWINDON, SN3 3TQ
ODS code J83047
4.1 km
RIDGEWAY VIEW FAMILY PRACTICE
BARRETT WAY, WROUGHTON, SWINDON, SN4 9LW
ODS code J83009
4.7 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
- 0.2 miles
Steam Museum
BCT · Even Swindon
- 0.2 miles
Steam Museum
BCT · Even Swindon
- 0.2 miles
New College (North Star Campus)
BCT · Swindon
- 0.2 miles
New College (North Star Campus)
BCT · Swindon
- 0.3 miles
The Dolphin
BCT · Even Swindon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swindon 012B, 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
16,978 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
Recorded crime
5,851 published events cover 12 months, averaging 487.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,964 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.