Property market
The five-year median is £542,500 from 16 recorded sales in BH21 1WU. 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.
BH21 1WU
Wimborne Minster · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wimborne
- Ward
- Wimborne Minster
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH21 1WU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 1
- Latitude
- 50.795493
- Longitude
- -1.975807
- British National Grid easting
- 401,801
- British National Grid northing
- 99,549
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Wimborne Minster · E05012730
- Parish or community
- E04013393
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole · E14001363
- Output area
- E00103512
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 021B · E01020427
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 021 · E02004252
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 BH21
Property
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 22, The Old Market Gardens, Wimborne, BH21 1WU | 10 October 2025 | £560,000 |
| 5, The Old Market Gardens, Wimborne, BH21 1WU | 25 July 2025 | £475,000 |
| 20, The Old Market Gardens, Wimborne, BH21 1WU | 31 March 2025 | £510,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 7
- 535 m
St John's Church of England First School, Wimborne
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- 1.1 km
Allenbourn Middle School
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- 1.1 km
Merley First School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 818
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 328
- Anti social behaviour 173
- Shoplifting 83
- Criminal damage and arson 68
- Other theft 40
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH21 1 residents
- 10,115
Age bands in BH21 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 34.4%
1,341 residents
883 residents
1,810 residents
2,741 residents
3,551 residents
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
THE QUARTER JACK SURGERY
RODWAYS CORNER, WIMBORNE, BH21 1AP
ODS code J81034
577 m
WALFORD MILL MEDICAL CENTRE
KNOBCROOK ROAD, WIMBORNE, BH21 1NL
ODS code J81077
1.4 km
THE HADLEIGH PRACTICE
HADLEIGH PRACTICE, 20 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81041
4.0 km
THE HARVEY PRACTICE
18 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81046
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hardy Crescent
BCT · Wimborne Minster
- 0.1 miles
Hardy Crescent
BCT · Wimborne Minster
- 0.2 miles
Churchill Road
BCT · Wimborne Minster
- 0.2 miles
St John's Hill
BCT · Wimborne Minster
- 0.2 miles
Station Road
BCT · Wimborne Minster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 021B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,730 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 7 secondary schools. St John's Church of England First School, Wimborne is the nearest published school at 535 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
818 published events cover 12 months, averaging 68.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 328 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.