Box

Box is covered by postcode district SN13. It is in the Wiltshire council area, England.

ONS publishes this built-up area as Box (Wiltshire).

Typical price £428,500 Homes sold in Box, last 12 months. ▼ 10.7% on the year before Gigabit broadband 10 of 92 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 5 of 94 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 11 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Box, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Box, by flood risk Of the 94 postcodes in Box that ONS places, 5 have a home or business at high risk and 89 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Box. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A4A365 SN13 8AB: not on the flood risk listSN13 8AD: not on the flood risk listSN13 8AE: not on the flood risk listSN13 8AF: not on the flood risk listSN13 8AH: not on the flood risk listSN13 8AJ: not on the flood risk listSN13 8AL: not on the flood risk listSN13 8AP: not on the flood risk listSN13 8AQ: not on the flood risk listSN13 8AS: not on the flood risk listSN13 8AT: not on the flood risk listSN13 8AW: not on the flood risk listSN13 8DN: not on the flood risk listSN13 8DP: not on the flood risk listSN13 8DR: not on the flood risk listSN13 8DS: not on the flood risk listSN13 8DT: not on the flood risk listSN13 8DU: not on the flood risk listSN13 8DX: not on the flood risk listSN13 8DY: not on the flood risk listSN13 8DZ: not on the flood risk listSN13 8EA: not on the flood risk listSN13 8EB: not on the flood risk listSN13 8ED: not on the flood risk listSN13 8EE: not on the flood risk listSN13 8EF: not on the flood risk listSN13 8EG: not on the flood risk listSN13 8EH: not on the flood risk listSN13 8EJ: not on the flood risk listSN13 8EL: not on the flood risk listSN13 8EN: not on the flood risk listSN13 8EQ: not on the flood risk listSN13 8ER: not on the flood risk listSN13 8EW: not on the flood risk listSN13 8HP: not on the flood risk listSN13 8HT: not on the flood risk listSN13 8JN: not on the flood risk listSN13 8JR: not on the flood risk listSN13 8JS: not on the flood risk listSN13 8JT: not on the flood risk listSN13 8JU: not on the flood risk listSN13 8JX: not on the flood risk listSN13 8JY: not on the flood risk listSN13 8JZ: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LA: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LB: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LE: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LF: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LG: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LH: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LJ: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LL: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LN: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LP: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LQ: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LR: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LS: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LT: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LU: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LW: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LX: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LY: not on the flood risk listSN13 8LZ: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NA: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NB: not on the flood risk listSN13 8ND: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NE: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NF: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NG: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NH: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NJ: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NN: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NP: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NQ: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NR: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NS: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NT: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NU: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NW: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NX: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NY: not on the flood risk listSN13 8NZ: not on the flood risk listSN13 8PA: not on the flood risk listSN13 8PB: not on the flood risk listSN13 8PE: not on the flood risk listSN13 8PH: not on the flood risk listSN13 8PJ: not on the flood risk listSN13 8PQ: not on the flood risk listSN13 8AA: high flood riskSN13 8EP: high flood riskSN13 8PD: high flood riskSN13 8PN: high flood riskSN13 8QR: high flood risk Box Map of every postcode in Box, by flood risk Of the 94 postcodes in Box that ONS places, 5 have a home or business at high risk and 89 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Box. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Box
  • A home or business at high risk: 5
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 89

Of the 94 postcodes in Box that ONS places, 5 have a home or business at high risk and 89 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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 51.4157, longitude -2.2529. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 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

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

SN13 8PN3 at high riskSN13 8EP3 at high riskSN13 8QR2 at high riskSN13 8AA1 at high riskSN13 8PD1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Box?

Homes sold for a typical £428,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 10.7% on the 12 months before. At 10 of the 92 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 11 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 94 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Bradford-on-Avon, 7.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Box?

Homes in Box sold for a typical £428,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 22 sales, down 10.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£428,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£480,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 10.7% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £665,000 7 sales
  • Semi-detached £480,000 7 sales
  • Terraced £250,000 7 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

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

Across the whole SN13 district, Box's main postcode district: a typical £375,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Box: 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

Are new homes being built in Box?

None of the 94 postcodes now in use in Box came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 19 homes sold in Box were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SN13 district, 3%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn BoxAcross the SN13 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 22 (0%) 6 of 225 (3%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 19 (0%) 9 of 281 (3%)

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.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Box?

Ofcom reports on 92 of the 94 postcodes in Box. At 10 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit10 of 92
Postcodes where every home can get superfast89 of 92

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

Is Box at risk of flooding?

5 of the 94 postcodes in Box 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 11 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 5 of 94 postcodes High: 10Medium: 1Low: 5

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, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Box?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Box. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Box?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Box is Bradford-on-Avon Rail Station, 7.9 km away in a straight line.

  • Bradford-on-Avon Rail Station Railway station 7.9 kmDrive
  • Bath Spa Rail Station Railway station 8.4 kmDrive
  • Melksham Rail Station Railway station 8.5 kmDrive

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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Box?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Box. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

  • Box Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01225 742361 300 mWalk
Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Box safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 76 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Box 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

  1. 6 September 2025
  2. 5 October 2025
  3. 8 November 2025
  4. 7 December 2025
  5. 6 January 2026
  6. 13 February 2026
  7. 4 March 2026
  8. 8 April 2026
  9. 4 May 2026
  10. 2 June 2026
  11. 9 July 2026
  12. 4 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences23 reports
Anti-social behaviour17 reports
Criminal damage and arson11 reports
Burglary10 reports
Other theft5 reports
Public order3 reports
Vehicle crime3 reports
Shoplifting2 reports

Also: theft from the person 1, other crime 1.

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.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Box?

Council
Wiltshire
Parliamentary constituency
Melksham and Devizes
Police force area
Wiltshire
Region
South West
Country
England
MP
Brian Mathew (Liberal Democrat)

All 94 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

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

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Box postcodes

94 postcodes in use in Box, by district:

SN13 postcode district,94 postcodes

That district is in the SN postcode area.

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Places near Box

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Box's £428,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Rudloe2.3 km, £325,000Colerne3.3 km, £325,000Corsham4.4 km, £340,000Batheaston4.5 km, £430,000Marshfield7.0 km, £470,000Bradford-on-Avon7.8 km, £375,000Winsley7.9 km, £607,500Bath8.9 km, £430,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Box

What is it like to live in Box?
Homes sold for a typical £428,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 10.7% on the 12 months before. At 10 of the 92 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 11 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 94 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Bradford-on-Avon, 7.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Box?
Box is covered by postcode district SN13, across 94 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Box in?
Box is in the Wiltshire council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Box?
Box is in the Melksham and Devizes parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Brian Mathew (Liberal Democrat), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Box?
Homes in Box sold for a typical £428,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 22 sales, down 10.7% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Box?
In Box, primary schools at its postcodes include Box Church of England Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Stonar School, 3.8 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Box have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Box is Bradford-on-Avon, 7.9 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Box?
Ofcom reports on 92 of the 94 postcodes in Box. At 10 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Box at risk of flooding?
5 of the 94 postcodes in Box 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 11 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Box?
None of the 94 postcodes now in use in Box came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 19 homes sold in Box were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SN13 district, 3%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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