SA5 postcode district: Swansea and around

SA5 is a postcode district in Wales, with 746 postcodes in use in 5 sectors. It has postcodes in Swansea, Gowerton and Penllergaer. Its council is Swansea.

Postcodes in use: 746
Sectors: 5
Council: Swansea
Places: 3 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in SA5, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 62
Some can get gigabit: 49
Every home and business can get gigabit: 630
Ofcom gives no figure: 5

Of the 746 postcodes in SA5 that ONS places, 62 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 49 have some that can, 630 can all get it and 5 have no Ofcom figure.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.6490, longitude -3.9712. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

Postcodes without gigabit

62 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

SA5 4AH SA5 4BE SA5 4DB SA5 4DH SA5 4DT SA5 4EB SA5 4ED SA5 4EP SA5 4JB SA5 4LH SA5 4LL SA5 4NE

What broadband can you get in SA5?

Ofcom reports on 741 of the 746 postcodes in SA5. At 630 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit630 of 741

Postcodes where every home can get superfast690 of 741

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 741

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in SA5?

Homes in SA5 sold for a typical £165,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 262 sales, up 5.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£165,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

12 months to August 2025: £156,000
12 months to August 2026: £165,000

▲ up 5.8% on the 12 months before

Detached£256,500 38 sales

Semi-detached£180,000 97 sales

Terraced£140,000 125 sales

Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it