Property market
The five-year median is £330,000 from 3 recorded sales in DT2 7PP. 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.
DT2 7PP
Chalk Valleys · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Dorchester
- Ward
- Chalk Valleys
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT2
- Postcode sector
- DT2 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT2 7PP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT2
- Postcode sector
- DT2 7
- Latitude
- 50.834050
- Longitude
- -2.329461
- British National Grid easting
- 376,895
- British National Grid northing
- 103,888
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Chalk Valleys · E05012687
- Parish or community
- E04003414
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00103529
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 014B · E01020431
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 014 · E02004262
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 DT2
Property
13 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Brightsmead, Higher Ansty, Dorchester, DT2 7PP | 5 November 2025 | £335,000 |
| 2, Brightsmead, Higher Ansty, Dorchester, DT2 7PP | 16 April 2025 | £330,000 |
| Upton Cottage, Brightsmead, Higher Ansty, Dorchester, DT2 7PP | 4 October 2023 | £285,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.4 km
Milton Abbey School
Other independent school
- 3.9 km
Cheselbourne Village School
Community school
- 4.7 km
Hazelbury Bryan Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 42
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- DT2 7 residents
- 5,800
23 female, 19 male
Age bands in DT2 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.9%
781 residents
442 residents
912 residents
1,936 residents
1,824 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DT2 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
1
within 5 km
MILTON ABBAS SURGERY
CATHERINES WELL, MILTON ABBAS, BLANDFORD FORUM, DT11 0AT
ODS code J81035
4.3 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
Brightsmead
BCT · Pleck or Little Ansty
- 0.1 miles
Brightsmead
BCT · Pleck or Little Ansty
- 0.4 miles
The Fox
BCT · Lower Ansty
- 0.4 miles
The Fox
BCT · Lower Ansty
- 0.7 miles
Melcombe Bingham Phone Box
BCT · Ansty Cross
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 014B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,457 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Milton Abbey School is the nearest published school at 2.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.