Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 4 secondary schools. Bradon Forest School is the nearest published school at 858 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SN5 4EJ
Purton · Wiltshire · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SN5 4EJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SN
- Postcode district
- SN5
- Postcode sector
- SN5 4
- Latitude
- 51.584979
- Longitude
- -1.884392
- British National Grid easting
- 408,106
- British National Grid northing
- 187,353
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Wiltshire · E06000054
- Electoral ward
- Purton · E05013457
- Parish or community
- E04011800
- Westminster constituency
- South Cotswolds · E14001482
- Output area
- E00162974
- Lower layer super output area
- Wiltshire 003B · E01031955
- Middle layer super output area
- Wiltshire 003 · E02006646
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
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Property
28 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Orchard Gardens, Purton, Swindon, SN5 4EJ | 17 June 2021 | £470,000 |
| 1, Orchard Gardens, Purton, Swindon, SN5 4EJ | 31 March 2021 | £425,000 |
| The Bramleys, Orchard Gardens, Purton, Swindon, SN5 4EJ | 29 September 2017 | £442,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 4
- 858 m
Bradon Forest School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
St Mary's Church of England Primary School & Nursery, Purton
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.7 km
Lydiard Millicent CofE Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 119
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 66
- Other theft 14
- Anti social behaviour 13
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Public order 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 49
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- SN5 4 residents
- 5,929
24 female, 25 male
Age bands in SN5 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.7%
1,177 residents
584 residents
1,642 residents
1,567 residents
1,142 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SN5 4 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+
- 84.2%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 84.2%
- Gigabit-capable
- 84.2%
- 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
4
within 5 km
PURTON SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, WILLIS WAY, PURTON, SWINDON, SN5 4BD
ODS code J83006
445 m
RIDGE GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
RIDGE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, SHAW VILLAGE CENTRE, RAMLEAZE DRIVE, SHAW, SWINDON, SN5 5PX
ODS code J83064
3.9 km
TINKERS LANE SURGERY
ROYAL WOOTTON BASSETT, SWINDON, SN4 7AT
ODS code J83029
4.7 km
NEW COURT SURGERY
BOROUGH FIELDS, WOOTTON BASSETT, SWINDON, SN4 7AX
ODS code J83055
5.0 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Royal George
BCT · Purton
- 0.1 miles
The Royal George
BCT · Purton
- 0.1 miles
Restrop View
BCT · Purton
- 0.2 miles
Highridge Close
BCT · Purton
- 0.2 miles
Highridge Close
BCT · Purton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wiltshire 003B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
30,020 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
119 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 66 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.