Sway

Sway is covered by postcode district SO41. It is in the New Forest council area, Hampshire.

Typical price £560,000 Homes sold in Sway, last 12 months. ▼ 3.4% on the year before Gigabit broadband 48 of 56 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 5 of 56 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Sway, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Sway, by flood risk Of the 56 postcodes in Sway that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 51 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Sway. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. SO41 6AA: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AB: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AD: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AE: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AF: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AG: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AH: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AJ: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AN: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AP: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AQ: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AR: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AS: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AT: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AU: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AW: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AX: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AY: not on the flood risk listSO41 6AZ: not on the flood risk listSO41 6BA: not on the flood risk listSO41 6BB: not on the flood risk listSO41 6BD: not on the flood risk listSO41 6BE: not on the flood risk listSO41 6BF: not on the flood risk listSO41 6BG: not on the flood risk listSO41 6BH: not on the flood risk listSO41 6BJ: not on the flood risk listSO41 6BL: not on the flood risk listSO41 6BY: not on the flood risk listSO41 6BZ: not on the flood risk listSO41 6DQ: not on the flood risk listSO41 6DR: not on the flood risk listSO41 6DS: not on the flood risk listSO41 6DT: not on the flood risk listSO41 6DU: not on the flood risk listSO41 6DW: not on the flood risk listSO41 6DX: not on the flood risk listSO41 6DY: not on the flood risk listSO41 6DZ: not on the flood risk listSO41 6EA: not on the flood risk listSO41 6EB: not on the flood risk listSO41 6ED: not on the flood risk listSO41 6EE: not on the flood risk listSO41 6EF: not on the flood risk listSO41 6EG: not on the flood risk listSO41 6ET: not on the flood risk listSO41 6EU: not on the flood risk listSO41 6EX: not on the flood risk listSO41 6FA: not on the flood risk listSO41 6GA: not on the flood risk listSO41 6HA: not on the flood risk listSO41 6DA: low flood risk at worstSO41 6EW: low flood risk at worstSO41 6AL: medium flood risk at worstSO41 6BU: medium flood risk at worstSO41 6GB: high flood risk Sway Map of every postcode in Sway, by flood risk Of the 56 postcodes in Sway that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 51 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Sway. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Sway
  • A home or business at high risk: 1
  • At medium risk at worst: 2
  • At low risk at worst: 2
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 51

Of the 56 postcodes in Sway that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 51 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.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 50.7870, longitude -1.6071. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: 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. How we use them

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

SO41 6GB1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Sway?

Homes sold for a typical £560,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 3.4% on the 12 months before. At 48 of the 56 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 56 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is New Forest Medical Group, 3.8 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Sway, 350 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Sway?

Homes in Sway sold for a typical £560,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 33 sales, down 3.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£560,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£580,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 3.4% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £663,000 20 sales
  • Semi-detached £425,000 8 sales
  • Terraced 4 sales, too few to price
  • 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 SO41 district, Sway's main postcode district: a typical £510,250.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Sway: 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 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Sway?

None of the 56 postcodes now in use in Sway came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 33 homes sold in Sway were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SO41 district, 2%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn SwayAcross the SO41 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 33 (0%) 2 of 442 (Under 1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 33 (0%) 11 of 536 (2%)

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.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Sway?

Ofcom reports on 56 of the 56 postcodes in Sway. At 48 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit48 of 56
Postcodes where every home can get superfast54 of 56

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 checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Sway at risk of flooding?

5 of the 56 postcodes in Sway 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 3 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 5 of 56 postcodes High: 1Medium: 2Low: 4

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, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Sway?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Sway. 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.

Primary

Secondary

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Sway?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Sway is Sway Rail Station, 350 m away in a straight line.

  • Sway Rail Station Railway station 350 mWalk
  • Brockenhurst Rail Station Railway station 4.1 kmCycle
  • New Milton Rail Station Railway station 5.0 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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Sway?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Sway. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Sway safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 68 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Sway 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

  1. 4 September 2025
  2. 4 October 2025
  3. 6 November 2025
  4. 7 December 2025
  5. 8 January 2026
  6. 5 February 2026
  7. 5 March 2026
  8. 2 April 2026
  9. 13 May 2026
  10. 4 June 2026
  11. 5 July 2026
  12. 5 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences34 reports
Anti-social behaviour9 reports
Criminal damage and arson8 reports
Other theft6 reports
Public order3 reports
Burglary3 reports
Bicycle theft2 reports
Vehicle crime1 report

Also: drugs 1, possession of weapons 1.

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 postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Sway?

District, borough or city council
New Forest
County council
Hampshire
Parliamentary constituency
New Forest East
Police force area
Hampshire
Region
South East
Country
England
MP
Sir Julian Lewis (Conservative)

All 56 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

Moving to Sway

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Sway postcodes

56 postcodes in use in Sway, by district:

SO41 postcode district,56 postcodes

That district is in the SO postcode area.

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Places near Sway

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Sway's £560,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Ashley3.7 km, £390,750Brockenhurst4.1 km, £825,000New Milton5.1 km, £327,500Lymington5.2 km, £445,000Barton on Sea6.5 km, £547,000Milford on Sea6.8 km, £595,000Bransgore9.2 km, £437,500Lyndhurst9.7 km, £442,500 All places A to Z

Questions about Sway

What is it like to live in Sway?
Homes sold for a typical £560,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 3.4% on the 12 months before. At 48 of the 56 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 56 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is New Forest Medical Group, 3.8 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Sway, 350 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Sway?
Sway is covered by postcode district SO41, across 56 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Sway in?
Sway is in the New Forest council area, and Hampshire is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Sway?
Sway is in the New Forest East parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Sir Julian Lewis (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Sway?
Homes in Sway sold for a typical £560,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 33 sales, down 3.4% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Sway?
In Sway, primary schools at its postcodes include St Luke's Church of England Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is East Street Farm, 2.0 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Sway have a railway station?
Yes: Sway is 350 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Sway, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Sway?
Ofcom reports on 56 of the 56 postcodes in Sway. At 48 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Sway at risk of flooding?
5 of the 56 postcodes in Sway 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 3 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Sway?
None of the 56 postcodes now in use in Sway came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 33 homes sold in Sway were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SO41 district, 2%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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