Nottingham

What is it like to live in Nottingham?

Homes sold for a typical £197,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 5,412 of the 5,886 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 6,571 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 726 of its 6,292 postcodes. It has 68 primary schools, 19 secondary schools and 3 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Nottingham, 2.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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

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 Nottingham?

Homes in Nottingham sold for a typical £197,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 2,098 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £198,000 from 2,647 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £307,625 394 sales
• Semi-detached £216,000 705 sales
• Terraced £172,000 712 sales
• Flat or maisonette £128,000 287 sales

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

Across the whole NG8 district, Nottingham's main postcode district: a typical £246,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Nottingham: 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 Nottingham?

300 of the 6,292 postcodes now in use in Nottingham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 36 of the 2,647 homes sold in Nottingham were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NG8 district, Under 1%.

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

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 Nottingham?

Ofcom reports on 5,886 of the 6,292 postcodes in Nottingham. At 5,412 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.

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

Is Nottingham at risk of flooding?

726 of the 6,292 postcodes in Nottingham 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 6,571 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 Nottingham?

The open schools at the postcodes in Nottingham (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). 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.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

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

How far is the station from Nottingham?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Nottingham is Nottingham Rail Station, 2.9 km away in a straight line.

• Nottingham Rail Station Railway station 2.9 kmCycle
• Bulwell Rail Station Railway station 3.8 kmCycle
• Beeston Rail Station Railway station 5.9 kmDrive
• Beaconsfield Street Tram Stop Underground, metro or tram 150 mWalk
• Noel Street Tram Stop Underground, metro or tram 200 mWalk

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 Nottingham?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Nottingham, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Greenfields Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 0115 942 3582 300 mWalk
• Fairfields Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2025 · Phone 0115 942 4352 500 mWalk
• High Green Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2025 · Phone 0115 942 3216 500 mWalk
• Sherwood Rise Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 0115 962 2522 800 mWalk
• The Medical Centre - Zulu Road Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 0115 979 2255 950 mWalk

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Nottingham safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 10,809 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Nottingham 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: burglary 426, robbery 283, other crime 273, possession of weapons 175, theft from the person 146, bicycle theft 105.

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 Nottingham?

Councils

Nottingham (6,169), Gedling (81), Broxtowe (41) and 1 other

Parliamentary constituencies

Nottingham East (2,881), Nottingham North and Kimberley (1,711), Nottingham South (1,596) and 3 others

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: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.