Schools
62 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 8 secondary schools. Kingsdown School is the nearest published school at 293 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SN2 8XD
Upper Stratton · Swindon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Upper Stratton
- Local authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon North
- Postcode district
- SN2
- Postcode sector
- SN2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SN2 8XD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 2000
- Terminated
- 1 October 2000
- Postcode area
- SN
- Postcode district
- SN2
- Postcode sector
- SN2 8
- Latitude
- 51.594474
- Longitude
- -1.760013
- British National Grid easting
- 416,720
- British National Grid northing
- 188,430
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Swindon · E06000030
- Electoral ward
- Upper Stratton · E05016302
- Parish or community
- E04012671
- Westminster constituency
- Swindon North · E14001536
- Output area
- E00078682
- Lower layer super output area
- Swindon 005C · E01015557
- Middle layer super output area
- Swindon 005 · E02003216
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
- 62
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 8
- 293 m
Kingsdown School
Academy converter
- 392 m
St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Swindon
Academy converter
- 701 m
Ruskin Junior School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,248
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 521
- Anti social behaviour 170
- Shoplifting 123
- Public order 98
- Criminal damage and arson 89
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SN2 8 residents
- 2,496
Age bands in SN2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.3%
469 residents
232 residents
882 residents
653 residents
313 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.
GP practices
10
within 5 km straight-line
MERCHISTON SURGERY
HIGHWORTH ROAD, STRATTON ST MARGARET, SWINDON, SN3 4BF
ODS code J83001
1.1 km
ABBEY MEADS MEDICAL PRACT
ABBEYMEADS VILLAGE CENTRE, ELSTREE WAY, SWINDON, SN25 4YZ
ODS code J83035
2.3 km
HAWTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE
MAY CLOSE, CRICKLADE ROAD, SWINDON, SN2 1UU
ODS code J83027
2.4 km
NORTH SWINDON PRACTICE
HOME GROUND SURGERY, THAMES AVENUE, SWINDON, SN25 1QQ
ODS code J83057
3.3 km
WHALEBRIDGE PRACTICE
THE WHALEBRIDGE PRACTICE, SWINDON NHS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 ISLINGTON ST, SWINDON, SN1 2DQ
ODS code J83033
3.9 km
KINGSWOOD SURGERY
KINGSWOOD AVENUE, PARK NORTH, SWINDON, SN3 2RJ
ODS code J83038
4.3 km
ELDENE SURGERY
COLINGSMEAD, ELDENE, SWINDON, SN3 3TQ
ODS code J83047
4.5 km
VICTORIA CROSS SURGERY
168-169 VICTORIA ROAD, SWINDON, SN1 3BU
ODS code J83633
4.6 km
PARK LANE PRACTICE
7-9 PARK LANE, SWINDON, SN1 5HG
ODS code J83646
4.7 km
PRIORY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK SOUTH, SWINDON, SN3 2EZ
ODS code J83024
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Kingsdown Road
BCT · Kingsdown
- 0.1 miles
Kingsdown Road
BCT · Kingsdown
- 0.2 miles
Hyde Road
BCT · Kingsdown
- 0.2 miles
Kingsdown School
BCT · Kingsdown
- 0.2 miles
Arkells Brewery
BCT · Kingsdown
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swindon 005C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,358 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,248 published events cover 12 months, averaging 104 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 521 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.