Schools
53 open schools are in scope, including 38 primary and 9 secondary schools. Lift Hazelwood is the nearest published school at 227 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SN5 8HE
Lydiard, Freshbrook & Toothill · Swindon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South
- Postcode district
- SN5
- Postcode sector
- SN5 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SN5 8HE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1983
- Terminated
- 1 December 1984
- Postcode area
- SN
- Postcode district
- SN5
- Postcode sector
- SN5 8
- Latitude
- 51.552961
- Longitude
- -1.826867
- British National Grid easting
- 412,100
- British National Grid northing
- 183,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Swindon · E06000030
- Electoral ward
- Lydiard, Freshbrook & Toothill · E05016290
- Parish or community
- E04012672
- Westminster constituency
- Swindon South · E14001537
- Output area
- E00078730
- Lower layer super output area
- Swindon 022E · E01015570
- Middle layer super output area
- Swindon 022 · E02003233
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
- 53
- Primary
- 38
- Secondary
- 9
- 227 m
Lift Hazelwood
Academy sponsor led
- 491 m
Oliver Tomkins Church of England Infant and Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
- 491 m
Oliver Tomkins Church of England Junior School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,542
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 591
- Anti social behaviour 237
- Shoplifting 170
- Public order 152
- Criminal damage and arson 116
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SN5 8 residents
- 9,920
Age bands in SN5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.1%
1,846 residents
1,031 residents
2,719 residents
2,761 residents
1,841 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
PHOENIX SURGERY
DUNWICH DRIVE, TOOTHILL, SWINDON, SN5 8SX
ODS code J83645
355 m
ASHINGTON HOUSE SURGERY
ASHINGTON HOUSE, ASHINGTON WAY, WESTLEA, SWINDON, SN5 7XY
ODS code J83036
502 m
RIDGE GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
RIDGE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, SHAW VILLAGE CENTRE, RAMLEAZE DRIVE, SHAW, SWINDON, SN5 5PX
ODS code J83064
1.8 km
OLD TOWN SURGERY
CURIE AVENUE, OKUS, SWINDON, SN1 4GB
ODS code J83022
2.1 km
PARK LANE PRACTICE
7-9 PARK LANE, SWINDON, SN1 5HG
ODS code J83646
2.2 km
WHALEBRIDGE PRACTICE
THE WHALEBRIDGE PRACTICE, SWINDON NHS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 ISLINGTON ST, SWINDON, SN1 2DQ
ODS code J83033
3.3 km
VICTORIA CROSS SURGERY
168-169 VICTORIA ROAD, SWINDON, SN1 3BU
ODS code J83633
3.4 km
RIDGEWAY VIEW FAMILY PRACTICE
BARRETT WAY, WROUGHTON, SWINDON, SN4 9LW
ODS code J83009
4.0 km
HAWTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE
MAY CLOSE, CRICKLADE ROAD, SWINDON, SN2 1UU
ODS code J83027
4.2 km
THE LAWN MEDICAL CENTRE
GUILDFORD AVENUE, SWINDON, SN3 1JL
ODS code J83059
4.5 km
NORTH SWINDON PRACTICE
HOME GROUND SURGERY, THAMES AVENUE, SWINDON, SN25 1QQ
ODS code J83057
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Luddesdown Road
BCT · Toothill
- 0.1 miles
Luddesdown Road
BCT · Toothill
- 0.1 miles
Conisborough
BCT · Toothill
- 0.1 miles
Conisborough
BCT · Toothill
- 0.1 miles
Flint Hill Top
BCT · Toothill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swindon 022E, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,654 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
1,542 published events cover 12 months, averaging 128.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 591 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.