Somercotes and Swanwick

What is it like to live in Somercotes and Swanwick?

Homes sold for a typical £190,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 243 of the 316 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 344 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 5 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Alfreton, 2.6 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 Somercotes and Swanwick?

Homes in Somercotes and Swanwick sold for a typical £190,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 177 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £200,000 from 233 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £290,000 63 sales
• Semi-detached £180,000 69 sales
• Terraced £132,000 44 sales
• Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

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

Across the whole DE55 district, Somercotes and Swanwick's main postcode district: a typical £194,250.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Somercotes and Swanwick: 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 Somercotes and Swanwick?

23 of the 344 postcodes now in use in Somercotes and Swanwick came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 17 of the 233 homes sold in Somercotes and Swanwick were newly built (7%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DE55 district, 17%.

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 Somercotes and Swanwick?

Ofcom reports on 316 of the 344 postcodes in Somercotes and Swanwick. At 243 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.

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

Is Somercotes and Swanwick at risk of flooding?

None of the 344 postcodes in Somercotes and Swanwick is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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 Somercotes and Swanwick?

The open schools at the postcodes in Somercotes and Swanwick. 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 Somercotes and Swanwick?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Somercotes and Swanwick is Alfreton Rail Station, 2.6 km away in a straight line.

• Alfreton Rail Station Railway station 2.6 kmCycle
• Ambergate Rail Station Railway station 7.1 kmDrive
• Langley Mill Rail Station Railway station 7.2 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 Somercotes and Swanwick?

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

• Jessop Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report December 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01773 606276 450 mWalk
• Somercotes Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report March 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01773 602141 650 mWalk

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

Is Somercotes and Swanwick safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,413 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Somercotes and Swanwick 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: other crime 35, drugs 33, possession of weapons 17, robbery 11, theft from the person 7, bicycle theft 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.

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

Who runs Somercotes and Swanwick?

District, borough or city council

Amber Valley

County council

Derbyshire

Parliamentary constituency

Amber Valley

Police force area

Derbyshire

Region

East Midlands

Country

England

MP

Linsey Farnsworth (Labour)

All 344 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.