Forest Town
Forest Town is covered by postcode districts NG19 and NG21. It is mostly in the Mansfield council area: 239 of its 343 postcodes. The others are in Newark and Sherwood.
Every postcode in Forest Town, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 4
- In use before 2020: 339
Of the 343 postcodes in Forest Town that ONS places, 4 are new since 2020 and 339 were in use before 2020.
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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. 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 53.1585, longitude -1.1474. 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; when each came into use: the same directory; 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 4 newest postcodes
What is it like to live in Forest Town?
Homes sold for a typical £206,250 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 3.1% on the 12 months before. At 305 of the 343 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 343 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 7 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Sherwood Medical Partnership, 650 metres from the middle. The nearest railway station is Mansfield Woodhouse, 3.7 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 Forest Town?
Homes in Forest Town sold for a typical £206,250 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 202 sales, up 3.1% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £282,000 103 sales
- Semi-detached £165,000 68 sales
- Terraced £165,000 31 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole NG19 district, Forest Town's main postcode district: a typical £190,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Forest Town: 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 Forest Town?
4 of the 343 postcodes now in use in Forest Town came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 258 homes sold in Forest Town were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NG19 district, 8%.
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 Forest Town | Across the NG19 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 0 of 202 (0%) | 14 of 554 (3%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 0 of 258 (0%) | 62 of 783 (8%) |
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 Forest Town?
Ofcom reports on 343 of the 343 postcodes in Forest Town. At 305 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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 Forest Town at risk of flooding?
None of the 343 postcodes in Forest Town is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
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 Forest Town?
The open schools at the postcodes in Forest Town. 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
- Holly Primary School850 m 298 pupils, 280 places
- Forest Town Primary School1.0 km 263 pupils, 420 places
- John T Rice Infant and Nursery School1.0 km 188 pupils, 150 places
- Newlands Junior School1.1 km 230 pupils, 240 places
- Abbey Primary School1.6 km 459 pupils, 420 places
- Heatherley Primary School1.8 km 326 pupils, 315 places
- Samuel Barlow Primary Academy1.8 km 261 pupils, 354 places
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 Forest Town?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Forest Town is Mansfield Woodhouse Rail Station, 3.7 km away in a straight line.
- Mansfield Woodhouse Rail Station Railway station 3.7 kmCycle
- Mansfield Rail Station Railway station 3.9 kmCycle
- Shirebrook Rail Station Railway station 6.3 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 Forest Town?
There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Forest Town. 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.
- Sherwood Medical Partnership Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01623 626132 650 mWalk
- Sandy Lane Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2026 · Phone 01623 656055 2.7 kmCycle
- Oakwood Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01623 435555 3.1 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Forest Town safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 678 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Forest Town 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
- 49 September 2025
- 78 October 2025
- 43 November 2025
- 49 December 2025
- 66 January 2026
- 42 February 2026
- 55 March 2026
- 60 April 2026
- 46 May 2026
- 76 June 2026
- 63 July 2026
- 51 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: shoplifting 23, drugs 18, bicycle theft 3, possession of weapons 3, theft from the person 1, robbery 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 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 Forest Town?
- Councils
- Mansfield (239) and Newark and Sherwood (104)
- County council
- Nottinghamshire
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Mansfield (239) and Sherwood Forest (104)
- Police force area
- Nottinghamshire
- Region
- East Midlands
- 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: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Forest Town
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Forest Town is in Mansfield; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Mansfield about council tax Council tax, on mansfield.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 Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Forest Town postcodes
343 postcodes in use in Forest Town, by district:
Those districts are all in the NG postcode area.
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Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Forest Town
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Forest Town's £206,250. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Forest Town
- What is it like to live in Forest Town?
- Homes sold for a typical £206,250 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 3.1% on the 12 months before. At 305 of the 343 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 343 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 7 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Sherwood Medical Partnership, 650 metres from the middle. The nearest railway station is Mansfield Woodhouse, 3.7 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 Forest Town?
- Forest Town is covered by postcode districts NG19 and NG21, across 343 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Forest Town?
- Homes in Forest Town sold for a typical £206,250 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 202 sales, up 3.1% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Forest Town?
- In Forest Town, primary schools at its postcodes include Holly Primary School, Forest Town Primary School and John T Rice Infant and Nursery School; secondary schools at its postcodes include The Garibaldi School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Forest Town have a railway station?
- The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Forest Town is Mansfield Woodhouse, 3.7 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Forest Town?
- Ofcom reports on 343 of the 343 postcodes in Forest Town. At 305 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Forest Town at risk of flooding?
- None of the 343 postcodes in Forest Town is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Forest Town?
- 4 of the 343 postcodes now in use in Forest Town came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 258 homes sold in Forest Town were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NG19 district, 8%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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