Property market
The five-year median is £294,000 from 2 recorded sales in DT1 2BH. 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.
DT1 2BH
Dorchester East · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Post town
- Dorchester
- Ward
- Dorchester East
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT1
- Postcode sector
- DT1 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT1 2BH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT1
- Postcode sector
- DT1 2
- Latitude
- 50.703756
- Longitude
- -2.430817
- British National Grid easting
- 369,673
- British National Grid northing
- 89,436
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Dorchester East · E05012696
- Parish or community
- E04003533
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00104073
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 034F · E01020525
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 034 · E02004278
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 DT1
Property
23 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 80a, Mellstock Avenue, Dorchester, DT1 2BH | 1 March 2022 | £180,000 |
| 82, Mellstock Avenue, Dorchester, DT1 2BH | 1 March 2022 | £408,000 |
| 83, Mellstock Avenue, Dorchester, DT1 2BH | 16 August 2019 | £585,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 4
- 160 m
St Osmund's Church of England Middle School
Academy converter
- 177 m
Manor Park Church of England First School
Academy sponsor led
- 526 m
St Mary's Catholic First School, Dorchester
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 989
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 324
- Anti social behaviour 197
- Shoplifting 170
- Criminal damage and arson 72
- Other theft 59
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 65
- Postcode households
- 25
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- DT1 2 residents
- 10,977
34 female, 31 male
Age bands in DT1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 25%
1,666 residents
1,048 residents
2,096 residents
3,076 residents
2,630 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DT1 2 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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 straight-line
ATRIUM HEALTH CENTRE
7 WEYMOUTH AVENUE, DORCHESTER, DT1 1QR
ODS code J81068
949 m
QUEENS AVENUE SURGERY
14 QUEENS AVENUE, DORCHESTER, DT1 2EW
ODS code J81016
1.0 km
FORDINGTON SURGERY
91 HIGH STREET, FORDINGTON, DORCHESTER, DT1 1LD
ODS code J81626
1.1 km
POUNDBURY DOCTORS SURGERY
3 FREDERICK TREVES HOUSE, ST. JOHN WAY, DORCHESTER, DT1 2FD
ODS code J81082
2.2 km
PRINCE OF WALES SURGERY
2 FREDERICK TREVES HOUSE, ST. JOHN WAY, DORCHESTER, DT1 2FD
ODS code J81609
2.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Melstock Avenue Shops
BCT · Dorchester
- 0.1 miles
St Osmunds School
BCT · Dorchester
- 0.1 miles
Weatherbury Way
BCT · Dorchester
- 0.1 miles
Manor Park First School
BCT · Dorchester
- 0.1 miles
Rothesay Road
BCT · Dorchester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 034F, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,395 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
- 6
- 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
12 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 4 secondary schools. St Osmund's Church of England Middle School is the nearest published school at 160 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
989 published events cover 12 months, averaging 82.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 324 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.