Property market
The five-year median is £805,000 from 3 recorded sales in BH23 7AZ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for New Forest is £380,310 in June 2026, up 1.2% year on year.
BH23 7AZ
Bransgore, Burley, Sopley & Ringwood East · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Christchurch
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West
- Postcode district
- BH23
- Postcode sector
- BH23 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH23 7AZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH23
- Postcode sector
- BH23 7
- Latitude
- 50.771915
- Longitude
- -1.775124
- British National Grid easting
- 415,953
- British National Grid northing
- 96,951
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Bransgore, Burley, Sopley & Ringwood East · E05014774
- Parish or community
- E04004585
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest West · E14001374
- Output area
- E00117196
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 016E · E01023063
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 016 · E02004794
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 BH23
Property
24 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Old Barn, Sopley, Christchurch, BH23 7AZ | 30 April 2024 | £815,000 |
| Sopley Farm Building, The Northern Byre 8, Derritt Lane, Sopley, Christchurch, BH23 7AZ | 4 May 2023 | £650,000 |
| Sopley Farm Building, The Byre, Derritt Lane, Sopley, Christchurch, BH23 7AZ | 20 April 2023 | £805,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.6 km
Sopley Primary School
Community school
- 1.7 km
Burton Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.8 km
The Stable School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 21
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 9
- Burglary 3
- Public order 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 47
- Postcode households
- 23
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- BH23 7 residents
- 4,971
24 female, 23 male
Age bands in BH23 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.5%
711 residents
466 residents
1,015 residents
1,345 residents
1,411 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH23 7 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
5
within 5 km
TWIN OAKS MEDICAL CENTRE
RINGWOOD ROAD, BRANSGORE, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 8AD
ODS code J82151
2.8 km
GROVE SURGERY
FAIRMILE ROAD, FAIRMILE, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 2FQ
ODS code J81646
3.2 km
STOUR SURGERY
49 BARRACK ROAD, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 1PA
ODS code J81066
4.0 km
CHRISTCHURCH MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHRISTCHURCH MEDICAL PRAC, 1 PUREWELL CROSS ROAD, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 3AF
ODS code J81056
4.1 km
FARMHOUSE SURGERY
CHRISTCHURCH MED CENTRE, 1 PUREWELL CROSS ROAD, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 3AF
ODS code J81057
4.1 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
- 0.2 miles
The Woolpack Inn
BCT · Sopley
- 0.6 miles
Meadowside Park
BCT · Winkton
- 0.6 miles
Meadowside Park
BCT · Winkton
- 0.6 miles
The Garage
BCT · Winkton
- 0.6 miles
The Garage
BCT · Winkton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 016E, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,545 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
23 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. Sopley Primary 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
21 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.