Property market
The five-year median is £750,000 from 1 recorded sale in BH21 5QU. 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 5QU
Cranborne & Alderholt · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wimborne
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH21 5QU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 5
- Latitude
- 50.916084
- Longitude
- -1.885315
- British National Grid easting
- 408,158
- British National Grid northing
- 112,965
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Cranborne & Alderholt · E05012693
- Parish or community
- E04003366
- Westminster constituency
- North Dorset · E14001388
- Output area
- E00103312
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 007C · E01020389
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 007 · E02004243
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
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hop Garden Cottage, Pye Lane, Cranborne, Wimborne, BH21 5QU | 16 September 2022 | £750,000 |
| Peacehaven, Pye Lane, Cranborne, Wimborne, BH21 5QU | 31 January 2018 | £370,000 |
| Peacehaven, Pye Lane, Cranborne, Wimborne, BH21 5QU | 18 November 2016 | £275,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.6 km
Aurora Beeches School
Other independent special school
- 2.1 km
Aurora Boveridge College
Special post 16 institution
- 2.5 km
Cranborne Middle School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 10
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 4
- Vehicle crime 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Public order 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- BH21 5 residents
- 2,407
3 female, 4 male
Age bands in BH21 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.7%
369 residents
190 residents
414 residents
802 residents
648 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH21 5 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+
- 75%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 75%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 75%
- Gigabit-capable
- 75%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 75%
- 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
THE CRANBORNE PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, PENNYS LANE, CRANBORNE, WIMBORNE, BH21 5QE
ODS code J81058
2.4 km
THE VERWOOD SURGERY
15 STATION ROAD, VERWOOD, BH31 7PY
ODS code J81030
3.8 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
- 0.7 miles
Memorial Chapel
BCT · Cripplestyle
- 0.7 miles
Memorial Chapel
BCT · Cripplestyle
- 1.4 miles
Cecil Court
BCT · Cranborne
- 1.4 miles
Cecil Court
BCT · Cranborne
- 1.5 miles
The Stocks
BCT · Edmondsham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 007C, 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
13,394 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
9 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 2 secondary schools. Aurora Beeches School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
10 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.