Property market
The five-year median is £475,000 from 1 recorded sale in DT2 7SZ. 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 7SZ
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 7SZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT2
- Postcode sector
- DT2 7
- Latitude
- 50.767816
- Longitude
- -2.396749
- British National Grid easting
- 372,117
- British National Grid northing
- 96,546
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Chalk Valleys · E05012687
- Parish or community
- E04003579
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00104169
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 022D · E01020539
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 022 · E02004272
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
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Little Puddle Barn, Harriet, Piddlehinton, Dorchester, DT2 7SZ | 4 April 2023 | £475,000 |
| Bourne Drove, Puddle Farm House, Piddlehinton, Dorchester, DT2 7SZ | 6 January 2017 | £650,000 |
| Bourne Drove, Puddle Farm House, Piddlehinton, Dorchester, DT2 7SZ | 24 August 2006 | £475,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 3.2 km
Piddle Valley Church of England First School
Academy converter
- 4.2 km
St Mary's Church of England Middle School, Puddletown
Academy converter
- 4.5 km
Puddletown Church of England First School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 42
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 14
- Violence and sexual offences 11
- Burglary 6
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Vehicle crime 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 30
- Postcode households
- 14
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- DT2 7 residents
- 5,800
13 female, 17 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 0.5% 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+
- 77.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 77.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 77.3%
- 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
PUDDLETOWN SURGERY
2A ATHELHAMPTON ROAD, PUDDLETOWN, DORCHESTER, DT2 8FY
ODS code J81616
4.6 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
- 0.0 miles
Piddlehinton Park
BCT · Piddlehinton
- 0.0 miles
Piddlehinton Park
BCT · Piddlehinton
- 0.4 miles
Muston
BCT · Piddlehinton
- 0.4 miles
Muston
BCT · Piddlehinton
- 0.5 miles
War Memorial
BCT · Piddlehinton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 022D, 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
15,286 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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
- 1
- 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 1 secondary schools. Piddle Valley Church of England First School is the nearest published school at 2.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
42 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 14 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.