Property market
The five-year median is £492,000 from 1 recorded sale in BH19 2HT. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Dorset is £325,410 in June 2026, up 1.6% year on year.
BH19 2HT
Swanage · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH19 2HT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH19
- Postcode sector
- BH19 2
- Latitude
- 50.601800
- Longitude
- -1.955318
- British National Grid easting
- 403,258
- British National Grid northing
- 78,011
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Swanage · E05012722
- Parish or community
- E04003483
- Westminster constituency
- South Dorset · E14001485
- Output area
- E00103839
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 042D · E01020481
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 042 · E02004268
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BH19
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 27b, Durlston Road, Swanage, BH19 2HT | 19 December 2023 | £492,000 |
| 29a, Durlston Road, Swanage, BH19 2HT | 29 July 2010 | £250,000 |
| 27a, Durlston Road, Swanage, BH19 2HT | 24 June 2010 | £265,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 677 m
Swanage Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.3 km
Swanage St Mark's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.3 km
The Swanage School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 254
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 100
- Anti social behaviour 53
- Shoplifting 34
- Criminal damage and arson 22
- Other theft 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 0.7
- BH19 2 residents
- 5,024
2 female, 0 male
Age bands in BH19 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.3%
686 residents
418 residents
948 residents
1,548 residents
1,562 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH19 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
SWANAGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
RAILWAY STATION APPROACH, SWANAGE, BH19 1HB
ODS code J81010
962 m
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Sunnydale
BCT · Swanage
- 0.0 miles
Sunnydale
BCT · Swanage
- 0.1 miles
Wordsworth House
BCT · Swanage
- 0.1 miles
Wordsworth House
BCT · Swanage
- 0.1 miles
Newton Road
BCT · Swanage
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 042D, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,837 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Swanage Primary School is the nearest published school at 677 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
254 published events cover 12 months, averaging 21.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 100 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.