SA5
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Swansea and Port Mead, in Swansea.
Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an SA5 postcode. How census figures are added up
Radon Affected Area by postcode district
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 84% of people in SA5 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How SA5 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is SA5 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in SA5 at a rate of 90.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 86.6 per 1,000 people across the SA postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 306 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in SA5.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,269), other crime (652) and shoplifting (455).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in SA5 was 95.5 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in SA5, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so SA5 has no single figure. Of its 21 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in SA5
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swansea 009D | 1,393 | 124.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.6% |
| Swansea 009E | 1,472 | 57.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.9% |
| Swansea 011A | 1,822 | 115.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Swansea 011B | 1,589 | 132.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Swansea 011C | 1,652 | 120.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Swansea 011D | 1,444 | 73.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.0% |
| Swansea 011E | 2,407 | 119.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Swansea 012A | 1,533 | 36.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.5% |
| Swansea 013A | 1,579 | 96.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 84.0% |
| Swansea 013B | 1,559 | 44.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.9% |
| Swansea 013C | 1,681 | 83.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Swansea 013D | 1,741 | 96.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.1% |
| Swansea 013E | 1,452 | 107.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Swansea 015A | 1,415 | 35.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.8% |
| Swansea 015B | 1,567 | 79.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.9% |
| Swansea 015C | 1,621 | 70.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.2% |
| Swansea 015D | 1,496 | 35.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Swansea 015E | 1,427 | 115.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Swansea 017A | 1,984 | 124.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.0% |
| Swansea 017B | 1,465 | 127.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.6% |
| Swansea 017C | 1,434 | 132.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.2% |
MPs for SA5
- Torsten BellLabourMP for Swansea West56% of SA5’s postcodes
- Tonia AntoniazziLabourMP for Gower43% of SA5’s postcodes
- Carolyn HarrisLabourMP for Neath and Swansea East0.1% of SA5’s postcodes
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Middle areas in SA54
Postcode sectors in SA55
Council1
Towns in SA51
Postcode districts next to SA56
Nearest rail stations1
More in the SA postcode area2
SA5 in brief
SA5 is a postcode district covering Swansea and Port Mead, in Swansea.
About 36,639 people lived in SA5 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £160,000 in 2025 across 353 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 90.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in SA5 was £160,000 in 2025.
SA5 had 35,760 usual residents at the census.
About 84% of people in SA5 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In SA5, 96.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.