Property market
The five-year median is £545,500 from 2 recorded sales in BH21 4FN. 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 4FN
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 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH21 4FN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 4
- Latitude
- 50.809973
- Longitude
- -1.982909
- British National Grid easting
- 401,300
- British National Grid northing
- 101,159
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
- E00183066
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 017C · E01020380
- 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
18 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 10, Buttercup Close, Wimborne Minster, Wimborne, BH21 4FN | 6 December 2024 | £462,000 |
| 11, Buttercup Close, Wimborne Minster, Wimborne, BH21 4FN | 14 August 2023 | £629,000 |
| 16, Buttercup Close, Wimborne Minster, Wimborne, BH21 4FN | 29 January 2021 | £410,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 5
- 635 m
Dumpton School
Other independent school
- 816 m
Allenbourn Middle School
Academy converter
- 911 m
Beaucroft Foundation School
Foundation special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 670
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 255
- Anti social behaviour 138
- Shoplifting 93
- Criminal damage and arson 54
- Other theft 33
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 40
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- BH21 4 residents
- 3,288
18 female, 22 male
Age bands in BH21 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.2%
500 residents
302 residents
648 residents
877 residents
665 residents
This postcode contained 1.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH21 4 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
2
within 5 km
WALFORD MILL MEDICAL CENTRE
KNOBCROOK ROAD, WIMBORNE, BH21 1NL
ODS code J81077
685 m
THE QUARTER JACK SURGERY
RODWAYS CORNER, WIMBORNE, BH21 1AP
ODS code J81034
1.3 km
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Onslow Gardens
BCT · Wimborne Minster
- 0.5 miles
Onslow Gardens
BCT · Wimborne Minster
- 0.5 miles
Allenbourn School
BCT · Wimborne Minster
- 0.5 miles
Knobcrook Road
BCT · Wimborne Minster
- 0.6 miles
Royston Drive
BCT · Wimborne Minster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 017C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,510 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Possible
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
18 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 5 secondary schools. Dumpton School is the nearest published school at 635 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
670 published events cover 12 months, averaging 55.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 255 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.