Marlow
Marlow is covered by postcode district SL7. It is mostly in the Buckinghamshire council area: 486 of its 496 postcodes. The others are in Windsor and Maidenhead.
Every postcode in Marlow, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 27
- Some can get gigabit: 61
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 395
- Ofcom gives no figure: 13
Of the 496 postcodes in Marlow that ONS places, 27 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 61 have some that can, 395 can all get it and 13 have no Ofcom figure.
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 51.5738, longitude -0.7739. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
What is it like to live in Marlow?
Homes sold for a typical £610,850 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 395 of the 483 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 614 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 133 of its 496 postcodes. It has 6 primary schools and 2 secondary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Marlow, 600 metres 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 Marlow?
Homes in Marlow sold for a typical £610,850 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 195 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £675,000 from 222 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £1,000,000 57 sales
- Semi-detached £620,000 30 sales
- Terraced £568,750 62 sales
- Flat or maisonette £323,500 46 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole SL7 district, Marlow's main postcode district: a typical £650,100.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Marlow: 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 Marlow?
7 of the 496 postcodes now in use in Marlow came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 5 of the 222 homes sold in Marlow were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SL7 district, 2%.
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 Marlow | Across the SL7 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 2 of 195 (1%) | 4 of 251 (2%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 5 of 222 (2%) | 5 of 289 (2%) |
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 Marlow?
Ofcom reports on 483 of the 496 postcodes in Marlow. At 395 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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Marlow at risk of flooding?
133 of the 496 postcodes in Marlow 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 614 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 Marlow?
The open schools at the postcodes in Marlow. 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.
Primary
- Holy Trinity Church of England (Aided) School300 m 351 pupils, 360 places
- Foxes Piece School550 m 161 pupils, 230 places
- Marlow Church of England Infant School600 m
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School600 m 40 pupils, 222 places
- Spinfield School1.1 km
- Bisham Church of England Academy1.5 km 104 pupils, 210 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Marlow?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Marlow is Marlow Rail Station, 600 m away in a straight line.
- Marlow Rail Station Railway station 600 mWalk
- Cookham Rail Station Railway station 4.0 kmCycle
- Bourne End Rail Station Railway station 4.4 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 Marlow?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Marlow. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Marlow Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01628 484666 250 mWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Marlow safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 928 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Marlow 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
- 62 September 2025
- 70 October 2025
- 84 November 2025
- 66 December 2025
- 57 January 2026
- 55 February 2026
- 71 March 2026
- 86 April 2026
- 103 May 2026
- 69 June 2026
- 129 July 2026
- 76 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 32, drugs 32, bicycle theft 8, possession of weapons 8, theft from the person 6, robbery 3.
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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Marlow?
- Councils
- Buckinghamshire (486) and Windsor and Maidenhead (10)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Beaconsfield (483), Maidenhead (10) and Wycombe (3)
- Police force area
- Thames Valley
- 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.
Moving to Marlow
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Marlow is in Buckinghamshire; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Buckinghamshire about council tax Council tax, on buckinghamshire.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Marlow
- 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
Marlow postcodes
496 postcodes in use in Marlow, by district:
That district is in the SL 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 Marlow
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Marlow's £610,850. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Marlow
- What is the postcode for Marlow?
- Postcode district SL7, with 496 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Marlow?
- A typical £610,850 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 195 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Marlow?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Holy Trinity Church of England (Aided) School, Foxes Piece School and Marlow Church of England Infant School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Sir William Borlase's Grammar School and Great Marlow School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Marlow have a railway station?
- Yes: Marlow station, 600 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Marlow?
- Ofcom reports on 483 of the 496 postcodes in Marlow. At 395 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Marlow at risk of flooding?
- 133 of the 496 postcodes in Marlow 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 614 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Marlow?
- 7 of the 496 postcodes now in use in Marlow came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 5 of the 222 homes sold in Marlow were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SL7 district, 2%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Environment Agency flood risk
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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