Weston-super-Mare

What is it like to live in Weston-super-Mare?

Homes sold for a typical £260,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 1,688 of the 2,108 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1,741 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1,428 of its 2,181 postcodes. It has 20 primary schools and 4 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 Weston Milton, 600 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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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 Weston-super-Mare?

Homes in Weston-super-Mare sold for a typical £260,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 1,177 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £251,250 from 1,590 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £370,000 247 sales
• Semi-detached £280,000 366 sales
• Terraced £240,000 275 sales
• Flat or maisonette £162,500 289 sales

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

Across the whole BS23 district, Weston-super-Mare's main postcode district: a typical £215,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Weston-super-Mare: 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 Weston-super-Mare?

42 of the 2,181 postcodes now in use in Weston-super-Mare came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 37 of the 1,590 homes sold in Weston-super-Mare were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BS23 district, 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 Weston-super-Mare?

Ofcom reports on 2,108 of the 2,181 postcodes in Weston-super-Mare. At 1,688 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 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.

Is Weston-super-Mare at risk of flooding?

1,428 of the 2,181 postcodes in Weston-super-Mare 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 1,741 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Weston-super-Mare?

The open schools at the postcodes in Weston-super-Mare (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. 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 Weston-super-Mare?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Weston-super-Mare is Weston Milton Rail Station, 600 m away in a straight line.

• Weston Milton Rail Station Railway station 600 mWalk
• Weston-super-Mare Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle
• Worle Rail Station Railway station 3.0 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Weston-super-Mare?

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

• The Milton Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01934 249554 450 mWalk
• 168 Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2024 · Phone 01934 624242 600 mWalk
• Pier Health Group Ltd Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2024 · Phone 01934 628111 1.7 kmCycle
• The Cedars Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2020, over 3 years old · Phone 01934 515878 2.0 kmCycle
• Tudor Lodge Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2025 · Phone 01934 622665 2.5 kmCycle

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

Is Weston-super-Mare safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 3,145 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Weston-super-Mare 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 80, bicycle theft 64, robbery 49, drugs 45, possession of weapons 18, theft from the person 4.

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 Weston-super-Mare?

Council

North Somerset

Parliamentary constituency

Weston-super-Mare

Police force area

Avon and Somerset

Region

South West

Country

England

MP

Dan Aldridge (Labour)

All 2,181 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.