Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 40 primary and 9 secondary schools. Lift East Wichel is the nearest published school at 117 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SN3 1NZ
Old Town & Lawn · Swindon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Old Town & Lawn
- Local authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South
- Postcode district
- SN3
- Postcode sector
- SN3 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SN3 1NZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- SN
- Postcode district
- SN3
- Postcode sector
- SN3 1
- Latitude
- 51.543017
- Longitude
- -1.793739
- British National Grid easting
- 414,400
- British National Grid northing
- 182,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Swindon · E06000030
- Electoral ward
- Old Town & Lawn · E05016291
- Parish or community
- E04012664
- Westminster constituency
- Swindon South · E14001537
- Output area
- E00166485
- Lower layer super output area
- Swindon 024F · E01033848
- Middle layer super output area
- Swindon 024 · E02003235
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 SN3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 40
- Secondary
- 9
- 117 m
Lift East Wichel
Academy converter
- 794 m
The Commonweal School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Kingfisher CE Academy
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,227
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 494
- Anti social behaviour 169
- Criminal damage and arson 116
- Vehicle crime 84
- Public order 82
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SN3 1 residents
- 9,039
Age bands in SN3 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.5%
1,293 residents
712 residents
1,949 residents
2,257 residents
2,018 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
13
within 5 km straight-line
OLD TOWN SURGERY
CURIE AVENUE, OKUS, SWINDON, SN1 4GB
ODS code J83022
844 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
1.8 km
RIDGEWAY VIEW FAMILY PRACTICE
BARRETT WAY, WROUGHTON, SWINDON, SN4 9LW
ODS code J83009
2.1 km
THE LAWN MEDICAL CENTRE
GUILDFORD AVENUE, SWINDON, SN3 1JL
ODS code J83059
2.3 km
PHOENIX SURGERY
DUNWICH DRIVE, TOOTHILL, SWINDON, SN5 8SX
ODS code J83645
2.3 km
WHALEBRIDGE PRACTICE
THE WHALEBRIDGE PRACTICE, SWINDON NHS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 ISLINGTON ST, SWINDON, SN1 2DQ
ODS code J83033
2.3 km
ASHINGTON HOUSE SURGERY
ASHINGTON HOUSE, ASHINGTON WAY, WESTLEA, SWINDON, SN5 7XY
ODS code J83036
2.8 km
KINGSWOOD SURGERY
KINGSWOOD AVENUE, PARK NORTH, SWINDON, SN3 2RJ
ODS code J83038
3.1 km
PRIORY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK SOUTH, SWINDON, SN3 2EZ
ODS code J83024
3.4 km
HAWTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE
MAY CLOSE, CRICKLADE ROAD, SWINDON, SN2 1UU
ODS code J83027
3.9 km
RIDGE GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
RIDGE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, SHAW VILLAGE CENTRE, RAMLEAZE DRIVE, SHAW, SWINDON, SN5 5PX
ODS code J83064
4.0 km
ELDENE SURGERY
COLINGSMEAD, ELDENE, SWINDON, SN3 3TQ
ODS code J83047
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Offerton Road
BCT · East Wichel
- 0.1 miles
Offerton Road
BCT · East Wichel
- 0.1 miles
Rylane
BCT · East Wichel
- 0.1 miles
Rylane
BCT · East Wichel
- 0.4 miles
Collard Close
BCT · East Wichel
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swindon 024F, 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
21,901 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
1,227 published events cover 12 months, averaging 102.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 494 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.