Swineshead

Swineshead is covered by postcode district PE20. It is in the Boston council area, Lincolnshire.

Typical price £235,000 Homes sold in Swineshead, last 12 months. ▲ 13.3% on the year before Gigabit broadband 82 of 84 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at medium risk 40 of 84 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 67 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Swineshead, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Swineshead, by flood risk Of the 84 postcodes in Swineshead that ONS places, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 39 are at low risk at worst and 44 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Swineshead. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A17A52 PE20 3BP: not on the flood risk listPE20 3EG: not on the flood risk listPE20 3EQ: not on the flood risk listPE20 3ET: not on the flood risk listPE20 3EU: not on the flood risk listPE20 3EX: not on the flood risk listPE20 3FD: not on the flood risk listPE20 3HD: not on the flood risk listPE20 3HT: not on the flood risk listPE20 3HU: not on the flood risk listPE20 3HX: not on the flood risk listPE20 3HY: not on the flood risk listPE20 3JG: not on the flood risk listPE20 3JQ: not on the flood risk listPE20 3JT: not on the flood risk listPE20 3LD: not on the flood risk listPE20 3LE: not on the flood risk listPE20 3LF: not on the flood risk listPE20 3LG: not on the flood risk listPE20 3LH: not on the flood risk listPE20 3LJ: not on the flood risk listPE20 3LL: not on the flood risk listPE20 3LN: not on the flood risk listPE20 3LR: not on the flood risk listPE20 3LT: not on the flood risk listPE20 3LU: not on the flood risk listPE20 3LW: not on the flood risk listPE20 3LX: not on the flood risk listPE20 3LY: not on the flood risk listPE20 3NA: not on the flood risk listPE20 3NF: not on the flood risk listPE20 3NP: not on the flood risk listPE20 3NR: not on the flood risk listPE20 3NT: not on the flood risk listPE20 3NU: not on the flood risk listPE20 3NW: not on the flood risk listPE20 3NY: not on the flood risk listPE20 3PA: not on the flood risk listPE20 3PB: not on the flood risk listPE20 3PE: not on the flood risk listPE20 3UA: not on the flood risk listPE20 3UD: not on the flood risk listPE20 3UE: not on the flood risk listPE20 3UG: not on the flood risk listPE20 3DZ: low flood risk at worstPE20 3EH: low flood risk at worstPE20 3EJ: low flood risk at worstPE20 3EL: low flood risk at worstPE20 3EN: low flood risk at worstPE20 3EP: low flood risk at worstPE20 3ER: low flood risk at worstPE20 3ES: low flood risk at worstPE20 3EW: low flood risk at worstPE20 3FA: low flood risk at worstPE20 3FB: low flood risk at worstPE20 3FE: low flood risk at worstPE20 3FJ: low flood risk at worstPE20 3HZ: low flood risk at worstPE20 3JA: low flood risk at worstPE20 3JD: low flood risk at worstPE20 3JE: low flood risk at worstPE20 3JF: low flood risk at worstPE20 3JH: low flood risk at worstPE20 3JJ: low flood risk at worstPE20 3JL: low flood risk at worstPE20 3JN: low flood risk at worstPE20 3JP: low flood risk at worstPE20 3JW: low flood risk at worstPE20 3JX: low flood risk at worstPE20 3JZ: low flood risk at worstPE20 3LP: low flood risk at worstPE20 3LQ: low flood risk at worstPE20 3LS: low flood risk at worstPE20 3LZ: low flood risk at worstPE20 3NE: low flood risk at worstPE20 3NG: low flood risk at worstPE20 3NS: low flood risk at worstPE20 3NX: low flood risk at worstPE20 3NZ: low flood risk at worstPE20 3PD: low flood risk at worstPE20 3PW: low flood risk at worstPE20 3QD: low flood risk at worstPE20 3UF: low flood risk at worstPE20 3FG: medium flood risk at worst Swineshead Map of every postcode in Swineshead, by flood risk Of the 84 postcodes in Swineshead that ONS places, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 39 are at low risk at worst and 44 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Swineshead. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A17 Swineshead
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 1
  • At low risk at worst: 39
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 44

Of the 84 postcodes in Swineshead that ONS places, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 39 are at low risk at worst and 44 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 52.9475, longitude -0.1604. 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 medium risk at worst

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

PE20 3FG67 at medium risk

What is it like to live in Swineshead?

Homes sold for a typical £235,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 13.3% on the 12 months before. At 82 of the 84 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 67 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 40 of its 84 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Swineshead, 3.1 km 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 Swineshead?

Homes in Swineshead sold for a typical £235,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 33 sales, up 13.3% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£235,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£207,500
12 months to August 2026
£235,000

▲ up 13.3% on the 12 months before

Detached£273,000 23 sales
Semi-detached£173,500 8 sales
Terraced 2 sales, too few to price

Across the whole PE20 district, Swineshead's main postcode district: a typical £246,250.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Swineshead: 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 Swineshead?

4 of the 84 postcodes now in use in Swineshead came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 4 of the 44 homes sold in Swineshead were newly built (9%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PE20 district, 22%.

The newest postcodes

PE20 3FJsince August 2021PE20 3NWsince July 2021PE20 3JHsince October 2020PE20 3QDsince January 2020

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

PeriodIn SwinesheadAcross the PE20 district
The 12 months to August 2026 1 of 33 (3%) 18 of 186 (10%)
The 12 months to August 2025 4 of 44 (9%) 62 of 280 (22%)

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 Swineshead?

Ofcom reports on 84 of the 84 postcodes in Swineshead. At 82 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit82 of 84
Postcodes where every home can get superfast83 of 84

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 Swineshead at risk of flooding?

40 of the 84 postcodes in Swineshead 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 67 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 40 of 84 postcodes Medium: 67Low: 270

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 Swineshead?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Swineshead. 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

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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 Swineshead?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Swineshead is Swineshead Rail Station, 3.1 km away in a straight line.

  • Swineshead Rail Station Railway station 3.1 kmCycle
  • Hubberts Bridge Rail Station Railway station 4.6 kmCycle
  • Boston Rail Station Railway station 9.3 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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Swineshead?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Swineshead. 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 Swineshead safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 129 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Swineshead 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. 13 September 2025
  2. 14 October 2025
  3. 9 November 2025
  4. 10 December 2025
  5. 10 January 2026
  6. 16 February 2026
  7. 14 March 2026
  8. 4 April 2026
  9. 13 May 2026
  10. 12 June 2026
  11. 7 July 2026
  12. 7 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences64 reports
Anti-social behaviour24 reports
Shoplifting11 reports
Public order8 reports
Other theft6 reports
Other crime6 reports
Criminal damage and arson4 reports
Vehicle crime4 reports

Also: burglary 1, bicycle theft 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 Swineshead?

District, borough or city council
Boston
County council
Lincolnshire
Parliamentary constituency
Boston and Skegness
Police force area
Lincolnshire
Region
East Midlands
Country
England
MP
Richard Tice (Reform UK)

All 84 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 Swineshead

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Swineshead postcodes

84 postcodes in use in Swineshead, by district:

PE20 postcode district,84 postcodes

That district is in the PE postcode area.

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Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.

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Places near Swineshead

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Swineshead's £235,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Donington5.7 km, £223,750Sutterton6.9 km, £246,500Kirton7.2 km, £220,000Boston9.5 km, £180,000Heckington10.1 km, £225,000Pinchbeck15.2 km, £245,000Billinghay16.9 km, £210,000Coningsby and Tattershall17.6 km, £203,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Swineshead

What is it like to live in Swineshead?
Homes sold for a typical £235,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 13.3% on the 12 months before. At 82 of the 84 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 67 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 40 of its 84 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Swineshead, 3.1 km 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 Swineshead?
Swineshead is covered by postcode district PE20, across 84 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Swineshead in?
Swineshead is in the Boston council area, and Lincolnshire is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Swineshead?
Swineshead is in the Boston and Skegness parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Richard Tice (Reform UK), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Swineshead?
Homes in Swineshead sold for a typical £235,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 33 sales, up 13.3% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Swineshead?
In Swineshead, primary schools at its postcodes include Swineshead St Mary's Church of England Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Cowley Academy, 5.4 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Swineshead have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Swineshead is Swineshead, 3.1 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Swineshead?
Ofcom reports on 84 of the 84 postcodes in Swineshead. At 82 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Swineshead at risk of flooding?
40 of the 84 postcodes in Swineshead 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 67 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 Swineshead?
4 of the 84 postcodes now in use in Swineshead came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 4 of the 44 homes sold in Swineshead were newly built (9%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PE20 district, 22%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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