Jacksdale and Westwood

What is it like to live in Jacksdale and Westwood?

Homes sold for a typical £182,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 38 of the 53 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 49 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 6 of its 53 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Langley Mill, 4.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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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 Jacksdale and Westwood?

Homes in Jacksdale and Westwood sold for a typical £182,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 19 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £181,000 from 46 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

• Detached £188,500 8 sales
• Semi-detached £210,000 7 sales
• Terraced 4 sales, too few to price

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

Across the whole NG16 district, Jacksdale and Westwood's main postcode district: a typical £222,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Jacksdale and Westwood: 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 Jacksdale and Westwood?

None of the 53 postcodes now in use in Jacksdale and Westwood came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 46 homes sold in Jacksdale and Westwood were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NG16 district, 12%.

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 Jacksdale and Westwood?

Ofcom reports on 53 of the 53 postcodes in Jacksdale and Westwood. At 38 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 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.

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

Is Jacksdale and Westwood at risk of flooding?

6 of the 53 postcodes in Jacksdale and Westwood 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 49 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 Jacksdale and Westwood?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Jacksdale and Westwood. 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

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

How far is the station from Jacksdale and Westwood?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Jacksdale and Westwood is Langley Mill Rail Station, 4.7 km away in a straight line.

• Langley Mill Rail Station Railway station 4.7 kmCycle
• Alfreton Rail Station Railway station 5.1 kmDrive
• Kirkby in Ashfield Rail Station Railway station 6.8 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Jacksdale and Westwood?

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

• Jacksdale Medical Centre Phone 01773 608760 400 mWalk

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Jacksdale and Westwood safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 411 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Jacksdale and Westwood 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: vehicle crime 9, shoplifting 7, possession of weapons 4, 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.

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

Who runs Jacksdale and Westwood?

District, borough or city council

Ashfield

County council

Nottinghamshire

Parliamentary constituency

Ashfield

Police force area

Nottinghamshire

Region

East Midlands

Country

England

MP

Lee Anderson (Reform UK)

All 53 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.