Salisbury

What is it like to live in Salisbury?

Homes sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 1,119 of the 1,269 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1,682 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 291 of its 1,330 postcodes. It has 16 primary schools, 6 secondary schools and 2 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 Salisbury, 550 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 Salisbury?

Homes in Salisbury sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 590 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £302,000 from 773 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £495,000 133 sales
• Semi-detached £325,000 137 sales
• Terraced £279,750 208 sales
• Flat or maisonette £182,250 112 sales

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

Across the whole SP1 district, Salisbury's main postcode district: a typical £325,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Salisbury: 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 Salisbury?

56 of the 1,330 postcodes now in use in Salisbury came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 14 of the 773 homes sold in Salisbury were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SP1 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

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 Salisbury?

Ofcom reports on 1,269 of the 1,330 postcodes in Salisbury. At 1,119 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 Salisbury at risk of flooding?

291 of the 1,330 postcodes in Salisbury 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 1,682 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 Salisbury?

The open schools at the postcodes in Salisbury (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 Salisbury?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Salisbury is Salisbury Rail Station, 550 m away in a straight line.

• Salisbury Rail Station Railway station 550 mWalk
• Dean Rail Station Railway station 12.0 kmDrive
• Grateley Rail Station Railway station 16.5 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 Salisbury?

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

• Salisbury Walk-In Hc Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01722 331191 250 mWalk
• Sarum Health Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 01722 322726 250 mWalk
• Three Chequers Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report June 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01722 336441 400 mWalk
• Salisbury Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 01722 333034 650 mWalk
• Harcourt Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01722 333214 650 mWalk

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

Is Salisbury safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 3,214 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Salisbury 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: drugs 69, bicycle theft 63, other crime 61, possession of weapons 22, theft from the person 21, robbery 11.

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 Salisbury?

Council

Wiltshire

Parliamentary constituency

Salisbury

Police force area

Wiltshire

Region

South West

Country

England

MP

John Glen (Conservative)

All 1,330 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.