Chipping Sodbury
Chipping Sodbury is covered by postcode district BS37. It is in the South Gloucestershire council area, England.
Every postcode in Chipping Sodbury, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 5
- At medium risk at worst: 4
- At low risk at worst: 20
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 148
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 177 postcodes in Chipping Sodbury that ONS places, 5 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at medium risk at worst, 20 are at low risk at worst and 148 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 170 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and 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 51.5363, longitude -2.3956. 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.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. BS37 6NX, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Chipping Sodbury?
Homes sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.8% on the 12 months before. At 133 of the 177 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 68 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 29 of its 177 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is West Walk Surgery, 1.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Yate, 2.6 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 Chipping Sodbury?
Homes in Chipping Sodbury sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 103 sales, down 2.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £477,500 30 sales
- Semi-detached £333,250 38 sales
- Terraced £370,000 17 sales
- Flat or maisonette £213,750 18 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole BS37 district, Chipping Sodbury's main postcode district: a typical £307,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Chipping Sodbury: 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 Chipping Sodbury?
6 of the 177 postcodes now in use in Chipping Sodbury came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 1 of the 139 homes sold in Chipping Sodbury were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BS37 district, 12%.
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
| Period | In Chipping Sodbury | Across the BS37 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 0 of 103 (0%) | 15 of 555 (3%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 1 of 139 (Under 1%) | 97 of 788 (12%) |
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 Chipping Sodbury?
Ofcom reports on 177 of the 177 postcodes in Chipping Sodbury. At 133 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.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Chipping Sodbury at risk of flooding?
29 of the 177 postcodes in Chipping Sodbury 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 68 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, 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 Chipping Sodbury?
The open schools at the postcodes in Chipping Sodbury. 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.
Primary
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 Chipping Sodbury?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Chipping Sodbury is Yate Rail Station, 2.6 km away in a straight line.
- Yate Rail Station Railway station 2.6 kmCycle
- Bristol Parkway Rail Station Railway station 10.4 kmDrive
- Patchway Rail Station Railway station 11.6 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 Chipping Sodbury?
There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Chipping Sodbury. 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.
- West Walk Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01454 272200 1.4 kmCycle
- Courtside Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2026 · Phone 01454 313874 1.4 kmCycle
- Kennedy Way Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01454 313849 1.4 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Chipping Sodbury safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,060 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Chipping Sodbury 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
- 94 September 2025
- 95 October 2025
- 105 November 2025
- 92 December 2025
- 80 January 2026
- 76 February 2026
- 94 March 2026
- 101 April 2026
- 90 May 2026
- 74 June 2026
- 73 July 2026
- 86 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 21, robbery 18, drugs 10, bicycle theft 7, possession of weapons 5, theft from the person 2.
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 postcodeSource: 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 Chipping Sodbury?
- Council
- South Gloucestershire
- Parliamentary constituency
- Thornbury and Yate
- Police force area
- Avon and Somerset
- Region
- South West
- Country
- England
- MP
- Claire Young (Liberal Democrat)
All 177 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
Moving to Chipping Sodbury
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell South Gloucestershire about council tax Council tax, on beta.southglos.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The nearest GP practices
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Chipping Sodbury postcodes
177 postcodes in use in Chipping Sodbury, by district:
That district is in the BS postcode area.
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Places near Chipping Sodbury
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Chipping Sodbury's £350,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Chipping Sodbury
- What is it like to live in Chipping Sodbury?
- Homes sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.8% on the 12 months before. At 133 of the 177 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 68 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 29 of its 177 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is West Walk Surgery, 1.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Yate, 2.6 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 Chipping Sodbury?
- Chipping Sodbury is covered by postcode district BS37, across 177 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Chipping Sodbury in?
- Chipping Sodbury is in the South Gloucestershire council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Who is the MP for Chipping Sodbury?
- Chipping Sodbury is in the Thornbury and Yate parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Claire Young (Liberal Democrat), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Chipping Sodbury?
- Homes in Chipping Sodbury sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 103 sales, down 2.8% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Chipping Sodbury?
- In Chipping Sodbury, primary schools at its postcodes include St John's Mead Church of England Primary School and Raysfield Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Chipping Sodbury School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Chipping Sodbury have a railway station?
- The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Chipping Sodbury is Yate, 2.6 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Chipping Sodbury?
- Ofcom reports on 177 of the 177 postcodes in Chipping Sodbury. At 133 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Chipping Sodbury at risk of flooding?
- 29 of the 177 postcodes in Chipping Sodbury 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 68 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 Chipping Sodbury?
- 6 of the 177 postcodes now in use in Chipping Sodbury came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 1 of the 139 homes sold in Chipping Sodbury were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BS37 district, 12%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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