Schools
64 open schools are in scope, including 45 primary and 10 secondary schools. Westlea Primary School is the nearest published school at 391 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SN5 7SA
Shaw & Westlea · Swindon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Shaw & Westlea
- Local authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South
- Postcode district
- SN5
- Postcode sector
- SN5 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SN5 7SA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- SN
- Postcode district
- SN5
- Postcode sector
- SN5 7
- Latitude
- 51.564641
- Longitude
- -1.821052
- British National Grid easting
- 412,500
- British National Grid northing
- 185,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Swindon · E06000030
- Electoral ward
- Shaw & Westlea · E05016298
- Parish or community
- E04012672
- Westminster constituency
- Swindon South · E14001537
- Output area
- E00078737
- Lower layer super output area
- Swindon 014C · E01015567
- Middle layer super output area
- Swindon 014 · E02003225
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
- 64
- Primary
- 45
- Secondary
- 10
- 391 m
Westlea Primary School
Academy converter
- 698 m
Shaw Ridge Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Even Swindon Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,652
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 612
- Anti social behaviour 263
- Shoplifting 213
- Public order 126
- Criminal damage and arson 122
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SN5 7 residents
- 4,192
Age bands in SN5 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 32.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.4%
782 residents
436 residents
1,392 residents
1,098 residents
526 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
14
within 5 km straight-line
ASHINGTON HOUSE SURGERY
ASHINGTON HOUSE, ASHINGTON WAY, WESTLEA, SWINDON, SN5 7XY
ODS code J83036
885 m
RIDGE GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
RIDGE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, SHAW VILLAGE CENTRE, RAMLEAZE DRIVE, SHAW, SWINDON, SN5 5PX
ODS code J83064
1.1 km
PHOENIX SURGERY
DUNWICH DRIVE, TOOTHILL, SWINDON, SN5 8SX
ODS code J83645
1.2 km
PARK LANE PRACTICE
7-9 PARK LANE, SWINDON, SN1 5HG
ODS code J83646
1.9 km
OLD TOWN SURGERY
CURIE AVENUE, OKUS, SWINDON, SN1 4GB
ODS code J83022
2.3 km
WHALEBRIDGE PRACTICE
THE WHALEBRIDGE PRACTICE, SWINDON NHS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 ISLINGTON ST, SWINDON, SN1 2DQ
ODS code J83033
2.7 km
VICTORIA CROSS SURGERY
168-169 VICTORIA ROAD, SWINDON, SN1 3BU
ODS code J83633
3.2 km
HAWTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE
MAY CLOSE, CRICKLADE ROAD, SWINDON, SN2 1UU
ODS code J83027
3.2 km
NORTH SWINDON PRACTICE
HOME GROUND SURGERY, THAMES AVENUE, SWINDON, SN25 1QQ
ODS code J83057
3.2 km
ABBEY MEADS MEDICAL PRACT
ABBEYMEADS VILLAGE CENTRE, ELSTREE WAY, SWINDON, SN25 4YZ
ODS code J83035
4.2 km
THE LAWN MEDICAL CENTRE
GUILDFORD AVENUE, SWINDON, SN3 1JL
ODS code J83059
4.5 km
PURTON SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, WILLIS WAY, PURTON, SWINDON, SN5 4BD
ODS code J83006
4.6 km
KINGSWOOD SURGERY
KINGSWOOD AVENUE, PARK NORTH, SWINDON, SN3 2RJ
ODS code J83038
4.7 km
RIDGEWAY VIEW FAMILY PRACTICE
BARRETT WAY, WROUGHTON, SWINDON, SN4 9LW
ODS code J83009
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Westlea Fire Station
BCT · Westlea
- 0.1 miles
Westlea Fire Station
BCT · Westlea
- 0.2 miles
Westlea Campus
BCT · Shaw
- 0.2 miles
Westlea Campus
BCT · Shaw
- 0.2 miles
Eastleaze Bus Link Road
BCT · Eastleaze
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swindon 014C, 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
21,686 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
1,652 published events cover 12 months, averaging 137.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 612 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.