Swansea

What is it like to live in Swansea?

Homes sold for a typical £190,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 3,228 of the 3,768 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. It has 50 primary schools and 9 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Swansea, 1.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Welsh Government school list; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Swansea?

Homes in Swansea sold for a typical £190,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 1,552 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £189,000 from 2,081 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £338,000 319 sales
• Semi-detached £210,000 487 sales
• Terraced £150,000 607 sales
• Flat or maisonette £135,000 139 sales

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

Across the whole SA1 district, Swansea's main postcode district: a typical £142,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Swansea: 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 Swansea?

104 of the 3,988 postcodes now in use in Swansea came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 45 of the 2,081 homes sold in Swansea were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SA1 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 Swansea?

Ofcom reports on 3,768 of the 3,988 postcodes in Swansea. At 3,228 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 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.

Which schools are in Swansea?

The open schools at the postcodes in Swansea (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.

Source: Welsh Government school list, read 27 October 2026. Each school opens its page on My Local School.

How far is the station from Swansea?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Swansea is Swansea Rail Station, 1.3 km away in a straight line.

• Swansea Rail Station Railway station 1.3 kmCycle
• Gowerton Rail Station Railway station 5.8 kmDrive
• Llansamlet Rail Station Railway station 5.9 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 Swansea?

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

• Mayhill Surgery Phone 01792 957600 250 mWalk
• Cwmfelin Medical Centre Phone 01792 653941 500 mWalk
• Manselton Surgery Phone 01792 653643 750 mWalk
• Nicholl Street Medical Centre Phone 01792 653548 1.4 kmCycle
• Kingsway Surgery Phone 01792 650716 1.4 kmCycle

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Swansea safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 5,996 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Swansea 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 131, burglary 123, possession of weapons 77, robbery 66, theft from the person 50, bicycle theft 39.

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 Swansea?

Councils

Swansea (3,976) and Neath Port Talbot (12)

Parliamentary constituencies

Swansea West (2,412), Gower (875) and Neath and Swansea East (701)

Police force area

South Wales

Country

Wales

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.