Property market
The five-year median is £1,100,000 from 1 recorded sale in BH21 2BY. 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 2BY
Colehill & Wimborne Minster East · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wimborne
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH21 2BY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 2
- Latitude
- 50.799364
- Longitude
- -1.956861
- British National Grid easting
- 403,136
- British National Grid northing
- 99,980
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Colehill & Wimborne Minster East · E05012691
- Parish or community
- E04013375
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole · E14001363
- Output area
- E00103272
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 017D · E01020381
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 017 · E02004249
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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Leigh House, Leigh Road, Wimborne, BH21 2BY | 31 May 2024 | £1,100,000 |
| Bytheway, Leigh Road, Wimborne, BH21 2BY | 1 June 2015 | £495,000 |
| Bytheway, Leigh Road, Wimborne, BH21 2BY | 3 November 2005 | £750,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 10
- 857 m
Hayeswood First School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Canford School
Other independent school
- 1.1 km
Colehill First School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 466
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 190
- Anti social behaviour 93
- Shoplifting 41
- Criminal damage and arson 36
- Vehicle crime 22
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH21 2 residents
- 10,255
Age bands in BH21 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.8%
1,889 residents
1,011 residents
2,323 residents
2,742 residents
2,627 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
THE QUARTER JACK SURGERY
RODWAYS CORNER, WIMBORNE, BH21 1AP
ODS code J81034
1.8 km
WALFORD MILL MEDICAL CENTRE
KNOBCROOK ROAD, WIMBORNE, BH21 1NL
ODS code J81077
2.4 km
ORCHID HOUSE SURGERY
FERNDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. MARYS ROAD, FERNDOWN, BH22 9HB
ODS code J81002
4.4 km
PENNY'S HILL PRACTICE
FERNDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. MARYS ROAD, FERNDOWN, BH22 9HB
ODS code J81061
4.4 km
THE HADLEIGH PRACTICE
HADLEIGH PRACTICE, 20 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81041
5.0 km
THE HARVEY PRACTICE
18 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81046
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lonsdale Road
BCT · Leigh Park
- 0.1 miles
Lonsdale Road
BCT · Leigh Park
- 0.2 miles
Churchmoor Road
BCT · Colehill
- 0.3 miles
Hayes Close
BCT · Hayes
- 0.3 miles
Hayes Close
BCT · Hayes
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 017D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,384 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
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
- 1
- 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
27 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 10 secondary schools. Hayeswood First School is the nearest published school at 857 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
466 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 190 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.