Property market
The five-year median is £495,000 from 9 recorded sales in BH31 7DH. 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.
BH31 7DH
Verwood · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH31 7DH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH31
- Postcode sector
- BH31 7
- Latitude
- 50.887424
- Longitude
- -1.884504
- British National Grid easting
- 408,220
- British National Grid northing
- 109,778
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Verwood · E05012724
- Parish or community
- E04012819
- Westminster constituency
- North Dorset · E14001388
- Output area
- E00103442
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 012D · E01020414
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 012 · E02004245
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 BH31
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 12, Buzzard Close, Verwood, BH31 7DH | 1 August 2025 | £506,800 |
| 7, Buzzard Close, Verwood, BH31 7DH | 20 September 2024 | £580,000 |
| 6, Buzzard Close, Verwood, BH31 7DH | 10 September 2024 | £450,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 2
- 368 m
Trinity Church of England First School
Academy converter
- 941 m
Hillside Community First School
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Emmanuel Church of England Middle School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 269
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 99
- Anti social behaviour 56
- Shoplifting 38
- Criminal damage and arson 21
- Public order 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH31 7 residents
- 3,464
Age bands in BH31 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.2%
450 residents
273 residents
537 residents
857 residents
917 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+
- 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 straight-line
THE VERWOOD SURGERY
15 STATION ROAD, VERWOOD, BH31 7PY
ODS code J81030
671 m
THE CRANBORNE PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, PENNYS LANE, CRANBORNE, WIMBORNE, BH21 5QE
ODS code J81058
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Fire Station
BCT · Dewlands Common
- 0.4 miles
Fire Station
BCT · Dewlands Common
- 0.4 miles
Dewlands Road
BCT · Dewlands Common
- 0.4 miles
Dewlands Road
BCT · Dewlands Common
- 0.4 miles
The Albion Inn
BCT · Romford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 012D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,135 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 2 secondary schools. Trinity Church of England First School is the nearest published school at 368 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
269 published events cover 12 months, averaging 22.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 99 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.