Property market
The five-year median is £275,000 from 3 recorded sales in BH22 8BG. 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.
BH22 8BG
Ferndown South · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ferndown
- Ward
- Ferndown South
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Christchurch
- Postcode district
- BH22
- Postcode sector
- BH22 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH22 8BG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH22
- Postcode sector
- BH22 8
- Latitude
- 50.805354
- Longitude
- -1.872728
- British National Grid easting
- 409,064
- British National Grid northing
- 100,653
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Ferndown South · E05012701
- Parish or community
- E04012463
- Westminster constituency
- Christchurch · E14001171
- Output area
- E00103346
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 018D · E01020393
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 018 · E02004250
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 BH22
Property
36 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 72, Petwyn Close, Ferndown, BH22 8BG | 21 June 2024 | £289,685 |
| 52, Petwyn Close, Ferndown, BH22 8BG | 11 March 2022 | £275,000 |
| 72, Petwyn Close, Ferndown, BH22 8BG | 5 August 2021 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.6 km
West Moors Middle School
Community school
- 1.9 km
Ferndown First School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Ferndown Middle School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 477
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 168
- Anti social behaviour 113
- Shoplifting 40
- Other theft 35
- Criminal damage and arson 34
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 195
- Postcode households
- 66
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- BH22 8 residents
- 10,783
95 female, 100 male
Age bands in BH22 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 35.8%
1,370 residents
875 residents
1,717 residents
2,768 residents
3,749 residents
This postcode contained 1.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH22 8 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+
- 97%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 97%
- Gigabit-capable
- 97%
- 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
5
within 5 km
THE BARCELLOS FAMILY PRACTICE
TRICKETTS CROSS, CORBIN AVENUE, FERNDOWN, BH22 8AZ
ODS code J81621
294 m
ORCHID HOUSE SURGERY
FERNDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. MARYS ROAD, FERNDOWN, BH22 9HB
ODS code J81002
1.6 km
PENNY'S HILL PRACTICE
FERNDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. MARYS ROAD, FERNDOWN, BH22 9HB
ODS code J81061
1.6 km
WEST MOORS VILLAGE SURGERY
VERNON HOUSE, 164 STATION ROAD, WEST MOORS, FERNDOWN, BH22 0JB
ODS code J81022
2.4 km
KINSON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
440 KINSON ROAD, KINSON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 5EY
ODS code J81045
4.7 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
- 0.1 miles
Lockyers Drive
BCT · Tricketts Cross
- 0.1 miles
Severn Road
BCT · Tricketts Cross
- 0.2 miles
Turbary Court
BCT · Tricketts Cross
- 0.2 miles
Hope Church
BCT · Tricketts Cross
- 0.2 miles
Derwent Close
BCT · Tricketts Cross
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 018D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,662 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 3 secondary schools. West Moors Middle 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
477 published events cover 12 months, averaging 39.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 168 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.