Royal Tunbridge Wells
Royal Tunbridge Wells is covered by postcode districts TN1, TN2 and TN4. It is mostly in the Tunbridge Wells council area: 1,417 of its 1,420 postcodes. The others are in Wealden. 1,417 are in Kent and 3 in East Sussex.
Every postcode in Royal Tunbridge Wells, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 5
- At medium risk at worst: 5
- At low risk at worst: 19
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 1,391
Of the 1,420 postcodes in Royal Tunbridge Wells that ONS places, 5 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at medium risk at worst, 19 are at low risk at worst and 1,391 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. 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 51.1354, longitude 0.2683. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 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.
The postcodes at high risk
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Royal Tunbridge Wells?
Homes sold for a typical £417,250 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 956 of the 1,409 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 60 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 29 of its 1,420 postcodes. It has 14 primary schools, 5 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Tunbridge Wells, 700 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells?
Homes in Royal Tunbridge Wells sold for a typical £417,250 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 702 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £420,000 from 915 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £915,000 109 sales
- Semi-detached £490,250 164 sales
- Terraced £424,500 168 sales
- Flat or maisonette £266,000 261 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole TN2 district, Royal Tunbridge Wells's main postcode district: a typical £445,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Royal Tunbridge Wells: 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells?
56 of the 1,420 postcodes now in use in Royal Tunbridge Wells came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 15 of the 915 homes sold in Royal Tunbridge Wells were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the TN2 district, 3%.
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 Royal Tunbridge Wells | Across the TN2 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 702 (0%) | 0 of 349 (0%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 15 of 915 (2%) | 16 of 485 (3%) |
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 Royal Tunbridge Wells?
Ofcom reports on 1,409 of the 1,420 postcodes in Royal Tunbridge Wells. At 956 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells at risk of flooding?
29 of the 1,420 postcodes in Royal Tunbridge Wells 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 60 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells?
The open schools at the postcodes in Royal Tunbridge Wells (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.
Primary
- St James' Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School350 m 629 pupils, 630 places
- St Barnabas CofE VA Primary School400 m 201 pupils, 210 places
- The Wells Free School600 m 213 pupils, 210 places
- Claremont Primary School950 m 436 pupils, 436 places
- Beechwood School1.3 km 303 pupils, 420 places
- The Mead School1.5 km 203 pupils, 250 places
- St John's Church of England Primary School1.5 km 633 pupils, 630 places
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School1.5 km 241 pupils, 240 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Royal Tunbridge Wells is Tunbridge Wells Rail Station, 700 m away in a straight line.
- Tunbridge Wells Rail Station Railway station 700 mWalk
- High Brooms Rail Station Railway station 1.7 kmCycle
- Frant Rail Station Railway station 3.9 kmCycle
- Tunbridge Wells West (Spa Valley Railway) Underground, metro or tram 1.7 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Royal Tunbridge Wells, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Grosvenor & St James Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01892 544777 350 mWalk
- The Wells Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01892 546422 550 mWalk
- Lonsdale Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01892 530329 600 mWalk
- Kingswood Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01892 511833 700 mWalk
- Speldhurst & Greggswood Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01892 541444 1.5 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Royal Tunbridge Wells safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 2,885 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Royal Tunbridge Wells 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
- 226 September 2025
- 240 October 2025
- 248 November 2025
- 243 December 2025
- 248 January 2026
- 226 February 2026
- 204 March 2026
- 227 April 2026
- 219 May 2026
- 253 June 2026
- 280 July 2026
- 271 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 60, burglary 55, possession of weapons 34, robbery 23, bicycle theft 19, theft from the person 18.
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 Royal Tunbridge Wells?
- Councils
- Tunbridge Wells (1,417) and Wealden (3)
- County councils
- Kent (1,417) and East Sussex (3)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Tunbridge Wells (1,417) and Sussex Weald (3)
- Police force areas
- Kent (1,417) and Sussex (3)
- 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Royal Tunbridge Wells is in Tunbridge Wells; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Tunbridge Wells about council tax Council tax, on tunbridgewells.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Royal Tunbridge Wells
- 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
Royal Tunbridge Wells postcodes
1,420 postcodes in use in Royal Tunbridge Wells, by district:
Those districts are all in the TN postcode area.
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Places near Royal Tunbridge Wells
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Royal Tunbridge Wells's £417,250. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Royal Tunbridge Wells
- What is the postcode for Royal Tunbridge Wells?
- Postcode districts TN1, TN2 and TN4, with 1,420 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Royal Tunbridge Wells?
- A typical £417,250 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 702 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Royal Tunbridge Wells?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include St James' Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, St Barnabas CofE VA Primary School and The Wells Free School; secondary schools at its postcodes include The Skinners' School, Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School and Beechwood School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Royal Tunbridge Wells have a railway station?
- Yes: Tunbridge Wells station, 700 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Royal Tunbridge Wells?
- Ofcom reports on 1,409 of the 1,420 postcodes in Royal Tunbridge Wells. At 956 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Royal Tunbridge Wells at risk of flooding?
- 29 of the 1,420 postcodes in Royal Tunbridge Wells 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 60 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells?
- 56 of the 1,420 postcodes now in use in Royal Tunbridge Wells came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 15 of the 915 homes sold in Royal Tunbridge Wells were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the TN2 district, 3%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- 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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