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Buying in Godalming: the data-sheet

Sold prices, schools, crime, broadband, council tax and flood risk for Godalming (GU7) — sourced, dated figures for the checks you make at the viewing stage.

Home-Checker Team

Godalming sits in the Waverley district of Surrey, on the River Wey about four miles south of Guildford, covered by the GU7 postcode. The town has its own station roughly 0.8 km from the centre and Farncombe at about 1.7 km, both on the Portsmouth Direct line into Waterloo. Charterhouse occupies the hill on the north-west side, and the lower town runs along the Wey and the Lammas Lands.

What follows is the data a buyer usually wants before a second viewing, with the measurement window attached to each figure.

The 6-dimension summary

Dimension Godalming (GU7) Source and vintage
Median sold price £492,500 HMLR PPD, 12 months to 31 Jul 2026
State primaries and secondaries within 3 km rated Good or Outstanding 9 of 10 Ofsted / GIAS, as at 17 Sep 2026
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents (Waverley) 36.7 Home Office / ONS, year to Mar 2026
Premises with 100 Mbit/s or faster available 76.5% Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026
Council tax, Band D £2,604.87 Waverley, 2026/27
Land within 2 km of the centre in Flood Zone 2 or 3 10.1% EA Flood Map for Planning, Jul 2026

Schools

Within 3 km of the centre there are nine state primary schools, one state secondary, a sixth-form college and three independent schools.

Eight of the nine primaries hold a Good rating. One infant school was rated Inadequate at its last inspection in October 2021 — five years ago, under a framework that no longer applies. Check Ofsted’s own record for the current position before you draw a conclusion from it: the register is the starting point for a question, not the answer to it.

School Phase Ofsted rating Last inspection Distance
Broadwater School State secondary Good 15 October 2019 2.5 km
The Wharf Nursery School Local-authority nursery Outstanding 6 June 2023 —
Godalming College Sixth form (16+) No current overall grade — 0.8 km

Godalming is a one-state-secondary town at this radius, which makes the admissions question sharper than in Leatherhead or Weybridge: if Broadwater is oversubscribed in a given year, the alternatives are outside the 3 km ring. Independent provision is unusually dense for the size of town — Charterhouse at about 1.8 km, St Hilary’s at 0.6 km and Unsted Park at 2.0 km. Independent schools inspected by the ISI carry no Ofsted grade, so an absent rating is not a poor one.

Inspection dates matter as much as grades here — Broadwater’s is from October 2019. How the Ofsted changes affect school ratings explains why grades from different eras are not directly comparable.

Crime

Area Recorded crime per 1,000 residents Period
Waverley 36.7 Apr 2025 – Mar 2026
Surrey (11 districts) 59.1 Apr 2025 – Mar 2026
England 80.3 Apr 2025 – Mar 2026

Waverley recorded 5,036 offences across a population of 137,218 in the year to March 2026. At 36.7 per 1,000 residents it is the lowest of Surrey’s eleven districts, and a little under half the England rate. That is a genuine feature of the area rather than a rounding artefact — the next district up, Elmbridge, is at 51.3.

It is still a district average covering Farnham, Cranleigh and the villages as well as Godalming. The crime methodology explains how the per-postcode rate is built, and the lowest-crime Surrey towns on a population-weighted basis ranks them properly.

Broadband

Coverage tier GU7 (% of premises) Source
30 Mbit/s or faster 97.5% Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026
100 Mbit/s or faster 76.5% Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026
300 Mbit/s or faster 76.5% Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026
Gigabit-capable 76.5% Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026
Unable to receive 30 Mbit/s 2.4% Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026

Each figure is the mean, across the 726 postcodes in GU7, of Ofcom’s per-postcode percentage of premises. These are download-speed tiers, not technologies: Ofcom does not publish full-fibre coverage at postcode level, and the tiers nest, so every premise counted at 300 Mbit/s is also counted at 100 and at 30.

Just over three-quarters of GU7 premises can reach 100 Mbit/s or faster. The 2.4% that cannot reach 30 Mbit/s are concentrated where the outcode runs out into open country rather than in the town itself — the same pattern described in Surrey’s rural broadband villages. Check the specific address rather than the outcode average.

Council Tax

Godalming is billed by Waverley Borough Council. These are the 2026/27 all-in charges, including the county, police and fire precepts.

Band Annual charge 2026/27
Band B £2,026.01
Band C £2,315.44
Band D £2,604.87
Band E £3,183.73
Band F £3,762.59
Band G £4,341.45

Waverley’s Band D is the highest of the four districts covered in this series — above Tandridge (£2,594.85), Mole Valley (£2,519.86) and Elmbridge (£2,557.75). Over a five-year hold, the gap between Waverley Band D and Elmbridge Band D is about £236. The gap between Band D and Band F in Waverley is £1,157.72 a year, which is a different order of magnitude. Band D by district across Surrey sets out the previous year’s full table.

Property Market

Across the 12 months to 31 July 2026, 367 sales were registered in GU7 at a median of £492,500. The middle half fell between £355,000 and £666,000, and 31 sales went above £1m. Just over a quarter — 27.2% — were leasehold.

Property type Sales Median price
Semi-detached 104 £567,500
Flat or maisonette 93 £280,000
Detached 85 £815,000
Terraced 78 £446,250
Other 7 £570,000

Snapshot from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data for sales registered between 1 August 2025 and 31 July 2026. Price Paid Data lags completion by several weeks, so recent months fill in over time.

Read the mix, not just the median. GU7 is notable for how evenly the four main property types split across this window: no single type accounts for more than 29% of sales. That gives a buyer real comparables in every segment, which is not true in flat-dominated outcodes — and it means the town-wide median describes a genuinely mixed sample rather than one dominant type.

Energy performance of the local stock. The register holds 11,462 certificates for GU7. Band D is the most common and 44% are rated C or better.

EPC band Certificates
A 153
B 1,564
C 3,339
D 4,358
E 1,642
F 326
G 80

The 2,048 certificates at E or below are mostly the older stock near the river and in the conservation area, where fabric upgrades run into planning constraints. If you are buying to let, what MEES means for rental stock is the place to start.

Flood Risk

Dimension Within 2 km of Godalming centre Source
Land in Flood Zone 3 8.0% EA Flood Map for Planning, Jul 2026
Land in Flood Zone 2 2.1% EA Flood Map for Planning, Jul 2026
Land at high surface-water risk 0.42% EA NaFRA2 RoFSW, Jan 2025
Land at medium surface-water risk 0.28% EA NaFRA2 RoFSW, Jan 2025

A tenth of the land within 2 km of the centre sits in Flood Zone 2 or 3, and most of that is Zone 3 — the higher-probability band. That is the Wey and the Lammas Lands, which is exactly where you would expect it: the floodplain is largely open ground by design, and the housing sits above it. But the corridor runs close to the town centre, so the zone question is a real one for the lower streets rather than an abstraction.

Surface water is separate and lower here than in Leatherhead or Oxted: 0.42% of land within 2 km is in the Environment Agency’s high band, meaning a greater than 3.3% annual chance of flooding to at least 200 mm. How surface-water flooding works in Surrey explains the bands, and our flood-risk methodology covers how the zones are read.

These are land-area percentages, not property counts. The zone for the specific address is the only figure that settles it.

At the viewing stage

  • Which primary serves the admissions area for this address, and what is Broadwater’s intake position for the entry year you care about?
  • Is this postcode’s crime rate above or below the Waverley average for residential categories?
  • What speed tier does this address actually reach — 100 Mbit/s or faster, or is it among the 2.4% of premises that cannot reach 30 Mbit/s?
  • What band is it, and what is the Waverley 2026/27 charge for that band?
  • What have comparable properties of the same type sold for on this and adjacent streets in the past 12 months?
  • Is it in Flood Zone 2 or 3, and what is its surface-water band?

Further reading

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This article is general information only. It is not financial, legal, or property investment advice. Always obtain independent advice before committing to a property purchase.

Sources. Property market: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright, OGL v3.0, sales registered 1 Aug 2025 – 31 Jul 2026, re-queried 28 Sep 2026 after the 18 Sep 2026 Land Registry reload (HMLR 2026-08-28 restatement). Schools: DfE GIAS and Ofsted inspection records, queried 17 Sep 2026. Crime: Home Office police recorded crime with ONS mid-year population estimates, year to March 2026. Broadband: Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, published 19 November 2025, reporting coverage as at July 2025; loaded to the Home-Checker ofcom_broadband table on 18 September 2026. Each figure is the percentage of premises with that service available, averaged across the 726 GU7 postcodes present in that release. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre coverage at postcode level, so the 100 Mbit/s tier is a speed band, not a technology. Postcodes Ofcom retired between the 2024 and 2025 releases still sit in the table carrying their older values and are excluded from every figure here. Council tax: GOV.UK council tax levels set by local authorities in England, 2026 to 2027 (published 25 March 2026), Table 9. Energy: MHCLG Energy Performance of Buildings Register, outcode aggregate snapshot 21 May 2026. Flood: Environment Agency Flood Map for Planning (artefact vintage 15 July 2026) and NaFRA2 Risk of Flooding from Surface Water (published 28 January 2025). Station distances: OpenStreetMap, straight-line from the town centroid.

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