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BH19 3LN
South East Purbeck · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Swanage
- Ward
- South East Purbeck
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset
- Postcode district
- BH19
- Postcode sector
- BH19 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH19 3LN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH19
- Postcode sector
- BH19 3
- Latitude
- 50.580615
- Longitude
- -2.057341
- British National Grid easting
- 396,036
- British National Grid northing
- 75,656
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- South East Purbeck · E05012718
- Parish or community
- E04012328
- Westminster constituency
- South Dorset · E14001485
- Output area
- E00103766
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 039C · E01020468
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 039 · E02004267
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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, St Albans Head Cottages, Worth Matravers, Swanage, BH19 3LN | 29 June 2012 | £660,000 |
| 2, St Albans Head Cottages, Worth Matravers, Swanage, BH19 3LN | 10 September 2001 | £297,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 0
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 1
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- BH19 3 residents
- 1,819
1 female, 0 male
Age bands in BH19 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 36.8%
200 residents
146 residents
300 residents
579 residents
714 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH19 3 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+
- 14.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 28.6%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 1.4 miles
Pond
BCT · Worth Matravers
- 1.5 miles
Main Street
BCT · Worth Matravers
- 1.5 miles
Main Street
BCT · Worth Matravers
- 2.3 miles
Worth Lane
BCT · Kingston
- 2.3 miles
Worth Lane
BCT · Kingston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 039C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,828 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.