Ash and Ash Vale

What is it like to live in Ash and Ash Vale?

Homes sold for a typical £417,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 537 of the 613 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 248 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 80 of its 618 postcodes. It has 7 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is The Border Practice, 2.2 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Ash, 1.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Ash and Ash Vale?

Homes in Ash and Ash Vale sold for a typical £417,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 316 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £410,000 from 464 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £560,000 79 sales
• Semi-detached £435,000 111 sales
• Terraced £340,000 87 sales
• Flat or maisonette £195,000 39 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole GU12 district, Ash and Ash Vale's main postcode district: a typical £383,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Ash and Ash Vale: 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 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Ash and Ash Vale?

67 of the 618 postcodes now in use in Ash and Ash Vale came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 38 of the 464 homes sold in Ash and Ash Vale were newly built (8%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GU12 district, Under 1%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Ash and Ash Vale?

Ofcom reports on 613 of the 618 postcodes in Ash and Ash Vale. At 537 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Ash and Ash Vale at risk of flooding?

80 of the 618 postcodes in Ash and Ash Vale have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 248 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Ash and Ash Vale?

The open schools at the postcodes in Ash and Ash Vale. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Ash and Ash Vale?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Ash and Ash Vale is Ash Rail Station, 1.2 km away in a straight line.

• Ash Rail Station Railway station 1.2 kmWalk
• Ash Vale Rail Station Railway station 1.6 kmCycle
• North Camp Rail Station Railway station 2.1 kmCycle

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Ash and Ash Vale?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Ash and Ash Vale. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• The Border Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01252 344434 2.2 kmCycle
• North Camp Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01252 517734 2.8 kmCycle
• The Cambridge Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 01252 344868 2.9 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Ash and Ash Vale safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,291 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Ash and Ash Vale over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: burglary 33, other crime 32, possession of weapons 10, robbery 9, theft from the person 5, bicycle theft 5.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Ash and Ash Vale?

Councils

Guildford (524), Surrey Heath (91) and Rushmoor (3)

County councils

Surrey (615) and Hampshire (3)

Parliamentary constituencies

Godalming and Ash (524), Surrey Heath (91) and Aldershot (3)

Police force areas

Surrey (615) and Hampshire (3)

Region

South East

Country

England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.