Stanwell

What is it like to live in Stanwell?

Homes sold for a typical £407,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 168 of the 217 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 220 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 2 primary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Ashford (Surrey), 1.9 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 Stanwell?

Homes in Stanwell sold for a typical £407,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 74 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £410,000 from 107 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached 3 sales, too few to price
• Semi-detached £470,000 17 sales
• Terraced £420,000 26 sales
• Flat or maisonette £252,250 28 sales

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

Across the whole TW19 district, Stanwell's main postcode district: a typical £445,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Stanwell: 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 Stanwell?

None of the 220 postcodes now in use in Stanwell came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 107 homes sold in Stanwell were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the TW19 district, 0%.

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 Stanwell?

Ofcom reports on 217 of the 220 postcodes in Stanwell. At 168 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 Stanwell at risk of flooding?

None of the 220 postcodes in Stanwell 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 Stanwell?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Stanwell. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. 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 Stanwell?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Stanwell is Ashford (Surrey) Rail Station, 1.9 km away in a straight line.

• Ashford (Surrey) Rail Station Railway station 1.9 kmCycle
• Heathrow Terminal 4 Rail Station Railway station 2.1 kmCycle
• Heathrow Terminal 5 Rail Station Railway station 2.1 kmCycle
• Heathrow Terminal 4 Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 2.1 kmCycle
• Heathrow Terminal 5 Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 2.1 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 Stanwell?

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

• St David's Family Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01784 883933 250 mWalk

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

Is Stanwell safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,543 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Stanwell 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 46, shoplifting 37, possession of weapons 25, theft from the person 18, robbery 13, bicycle theft 5.

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 Stanwell?

District, borough or city council

Spelthorne

County council

Surrey

Parliamentary constituency

Spelthorne

Police force area

Surrey

Region

South East

Country

England

MP

Lincoln Jopp (Conservative)

All 220 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.