Woburn Sands

Woburn Sands is covered by postcode district MK17. It is mostly in the Milton Keynes council area: 114 of its 127 postcodes. The others are in Central Bedfordshire.

Typical price £404,500 Homes sold in Woburn Sands, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 110 of 125 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Not on the at-risk list No postcode here has a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Woburn Sands, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Woburn Sands, by flood risk Of the 127 postcodes in Woburn Sands that ONS places, 127 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Woburn Sands. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. MK17 8AG: not on the flood risk listMK17 8AH: not on the flood risk listMK17 8AQ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8EZ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8FA: not on the flood risk listMK17 8FB: not on the flood risk listMK17 8FD: not on the flood risk listMK17 8FE: not on the flood risk listMK17 8FG: not on the flood risk listMK17 8FH: not on the flood risk listMK17 8FJ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8FN: not on the flood risk listMK17 8FP: not on the flood risk listMK17 8FT: not on the flood risk listMK17 8FU: not on the flood risk listMK17 8FW: not on the flood risk listMK17 8GA: not on the flood risk listMK17 8GB: not on the flood risk listMK17 8GD: not on the flood risk listMK17 8GE: not on the flood risk listMK17 8GG: not on the flood risk listMK17 8GH: not on the flood risk listMK17 8GJ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8GL: not on the flood risk listMK17 8GN: not on the flood risk listMK17 8GP: not on the flood risk listMK17 8GQ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8GR: not on the flood risk listMK17 8GS: not on the flood risk listMK17 8GT: not on the flood risk listMK17 8GU: not on the flood risk listMK17 8GW: not on the flood risk listMK17 8NB: not on the flood risk listMK17 8ND: not on the flood risk listMK17 8NE: not on the flood risk listMK17 8NG: not on the flood risk listMK17 8NH: not on the flood risk listMK17 8NQ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8NT: not on the flood risk listMK17 8NU: not on the flood risk listMK17 8NX: not on the flood risk listMK17 8NY: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PB: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PD: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PG: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PH: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PJ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PL: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PN: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PP: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PQ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PR: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PS: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PT: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PU: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PW: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PX: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PY: not on the flood risk listMK17 8PZ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8QA: not on the flood risk listMK17 8QB: not on the flood risk listMK17 8QD: not on the flood risk listMK17 8QE: not on the flood risk listMK17 8QF: not on the flood risk listMK17 8QG: not on the flood risk listMK17 8QH: not on the flood risk listMK17 8QL: not on the flood risk listMK17 8QN: not on the flood risk listMK17 8QP: not on the flood risk listMK17 8QQ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8QW: not on the flood risk listMK17 8QX: not on the flood risk listMK17 8QY: not on the flood risk listMK17 8RA: not on the flood risk listMK17 8RB: not on the flood risk listMK17 8RE: not on the flood risk listMK17 8RF: not on the flood risk listMK17 8RG: not on the flood risk listMK17 8RH: not on the flood risk listMK17 8RJ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8RL: not on the flood risk listMK17 8RQ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8RR: not on the flood risk listMK17 8RT: not on the flood risk listMK17 8RU: not on the flood risk listMK17 8RW: not on the flood risk listMK17 8RX: not on the flood risk listMK17 8RY: not on the flood risk listMK17 8RZ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8SA: not on the flood risk listMK17 8SB: not on the flood risk listMK17 8SD: not on the flood risk listMK17 8SG: not on the flood risk listMK17 8SH: not on the flood risk listMK17 8SJ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8SL: not on the flood risk listMK17 8SN: not on the flood risk listMK17 8SR: not on the flood risk listMK17 8SS: not on the flood risk listMK17 8ST: not on the flood risk listMK17 8SU: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UA: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UB: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UD: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UE: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UF: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UG: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UH: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UJ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UL: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UN: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UP: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UQ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UT: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UU: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UW: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UX: not on the flood risk listMK17 8UY: not on the flood risk listMK17 8XD: not on the flood risk listMK17 8XG: not on the flood risk listMK17 8XH: not on the flood risk listMK17 8XJ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8XQ: not on the flood risk listMK17 8XR: not on the flood risk listMK17 8YF: not on the flood risk listMK17 8YU: not on the flood risk listMK17 8ZG: not on the flood risk list Woburn Sands Map of every postcode in Woburn Sands, by flood risk Of the 127 postcodes in Woburn Sands that ONS places, 127 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Woburn Sands. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Woburn Sands
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 127

Of the 127 postcodes in Woburn Sands that ONS places, 127 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 52.0157, longitude -0.6519. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.

What is it like to live in Woburn Sands?

Homes sold for a typical £404,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 110 of the 125 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 127 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 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Woburn Sands, 300 metres 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 Woburn Sands?

Homes in Woburn Sands sold for a typical £404,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 94 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £400,000 from 78 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£404,500 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£400,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £585,000 27 sales
  • Semi-detached £419,000 26 sales
  • Terraced £365,000 27 sales
  • Flat or maisonette £260,000 14 sales

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

Across the whole MK17 district, Woburn Sands's main postcode district: a typical £425,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Woburn Sands: 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 Woburn Sands?

7 of the 127 postcodes now in use in Woburn Sands came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 78 homes sold in Woburn Sands were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the MK17 district, 31%.

The newest postcodes

MK17 8ZGsince July 2026MK17 8YUsince February 2022MK17 8FUsince March 2021MK17 8AHsince February 2021MK17 8XRsince July 2020MK17 8XDsince June 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 Woburn SandsAcross the MK17 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 94 (0%) 22 of 325 (7%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 78 (0%) 147 of 478 (31%)

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 Woburn Sands?

Ofcom reports on 125 of the 127 postcodes in Woburn Sands. At 110 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit110 of 125
Postcodes where every home can get superfast122 of 125

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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Woburn Sands at risk of flooding?

None of the 127 postcodes in Woburn Sands 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 Woburn Sands?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Woburn Sands. 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.

Primary

Secondary

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Woburn Sands?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Woburn Sands is Woburn Sands Rail Station, 300 m away in a straight line.

  • Woburn Sands Rail Station Railway station 300 mWalk
  • Aspley Guise Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle
  • Bow Brickhill Rail Station Railway station 3.3 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 Woburn Sands?

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

Find a GP on the NHS website

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

Is Woburn Sands safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 273 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Woburn Sands 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. 15 September 2025
  2. 12 October 2025
  3. 19 November 2025
  4. 12 December 2025
  5. 16 January 2026
  6. 17 February 2026
  7. 42 March 2026
  8. 24 April 2026
  9. 28 May 2026
  10. 28 June 2026
  11. 30 July 2026
  12. 30 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences69 reports
Burglary46 reports
Anti-social behaviour42 reports
Shoplifting33 reports
Vehicle crime25 reports
Other theft16 reports
Public order13 reports
Criminal damage and arson13 reports

Also: other crime 7, drugs 5, bicycle theft 2, robbery 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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Woburn Sands?

Councils
Milton Keynes (114) and Central Bedfordshire (13)
Parliamentary constituencies
Milton Keynes Central (114) and Mid Bedfordshire (13)
Police force areas
Thames Valley (114) and Bedfordshire (13)
Regions
South East (114) and East of England (13)
Country
England

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.

Moving to Woburn Sands

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Woburn Sands is in Milton Keynes; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.

Who to tell when moving house: the full list Moving house checklist

Woburn Sands postcodes

127 postcodes in use in Woburn Sands, by district:

MK17 postcode district,127 postcodes

That district is in the MK postcode area.

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Places near Woburn Sands

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Woburn Sands's £404,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Aspley Guise1.1 km, £595,000Bletchley6.5 km, £325,000Cranfield6.9 km, £375,000Milton Keynes7.7 km, £325,000Marston Moretaine8.8 km, £335,000Newport Pagnell9.2 km, £325,000Newton Longville9.3 km, £382,500Flitwick10.6 km, £350,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Woburn Sands

What is the postcode for Woburn Sands?
Postcode district MK17, with 127 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
How much are houses in Woburn Sands?
A typical £404,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 94 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Woburn Sands?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Swallowfield Primary; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Fulbrook School, 600 metres away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Woburn Sands have a railway station?
Yes: Woburn Sands station, 300 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Woburn Sands?
Ofcom reports on 125 of the 127 postcodes in Woburn Sands. At 110 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Woburn Sands at risk of flooding?
None of the 127 postcodes in Woburn Sands 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. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Woburn Sands?
7 of the 127 postcodes now in use in Woburn Sands came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 78 homes sold in Woburn Sands were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the MK17 district, 31%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.

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