Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 5 secondary schools. Bradon Forest School is the nearest published school at 549 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SN5 4WR
Purton · Wiltshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Purton
- Local authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds
- Postcode district
- SN5
- Postcode sector
- SN5 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SN5 4WR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2000
- Terminated
- 1 September 2000
- Postcode area
- SN
- Postcode district
- SN5
- Postcode sector
- SN5 4
- Latitude
- 51.590415
- Longitude
- -1.872801
- British National Grid easting
- 408,908
- British National Grid northing
- 187,959
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
- E00162968
- Lower layer super output area
- Wiltshire 003E · E01034520
- 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
Explore SN5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 5
- 549 m
Bradon Forest School
Academy converter
- 553 m
St Mary's Church of England Primary School & Nursery, Purton
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.1 km
Lydiard Millicent CofE Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 120
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 62
- Other theft 15
- Anti social behaviour 13
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Public order 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SN5 4 residents
- 5,929
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
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
PURTON SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, WILLIS WAY, PURTON, SWINDON, SN5 4BD
ODS code J83006
657 m
RIDGE GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
RIDGE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, SHAW VILLAGE CENTRE, RAMLEAZE DRIVE, SHAW, SWINDON, SN5 5PX
ODS code J83064
3.6 km
NORTH SWINDON PRACTICE
HOME GROUND SURGERY, THAMES AVENUE, SWINDON, SN25 1QQ
ODS code J83057
4.5 km
ASHINGTON HOUSE SURGERY
ASHINGTON HOUSE, ASHINGTON WAY, WESTLEA, SWINDON, SN5 7XY
ODS code J83036
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
War Memorial
BCT · Purton
- 0.2 miles
War Memorial
BCT · Purton
- 0.3 miles
Witts Lane
BCT · Purton
- 0.3 miles
Witts Lane
BCT · Purton
- 0.3 miles
The Square
BCT · Purton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wiltshire 003E, 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
26,917 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
120 published events cover 12 months, averaging 10 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 62 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.