Property market
The five-year median is £365,000 from 29 recorded sales in DT2 8GW. 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 8GW
Crossways · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Dorchester
- Ward
- Crossways
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT2
- Postcode sector
- DT2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT2 8GW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT2
- Postcode sector
- DT2 8
- Latitude
- 50.693564
- Longitude
- -2.348253
- British National Grid easting
- 375,498
- British National Grid northing
- 88,272
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Crossways · E05012695
- Parish or community
- E04003531
- Westminster constituency
- South Dorset · E14001485
- Output area
- E00104157
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 036B · E01020537
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 036 · E02004279
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
29 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Shepperds View Silverlake, 1, Warmwell Road, Crossways, Dorchester, DT2 8GW | 7 November 2025 | £200,000 |
| Shepperds View Silverlake, 1, Warmwell Road, Crossways, Dorchester, DT2 8GW | 19 August 2024 | £200,000 |
| Shepperds View Silverlake, 28, Warmwell Road, Crossways, Dorchester, DT2 8GW | 21 May 2024 | £290,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.3 km
Frome Valley CofE First School
Academy converter
- 2.4 km
Broadmayne First School
Community school
- 4.8 km
Dorset Studio School
Studio schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 95
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 50
- Anti social behaviour 16
- Other theft 8
- Criminal damage and arson 7
- Public order 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DT2 8 residents
- 8,366
Age bands in DT2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.6%
1,186 residents
723 residents
1,521 residents
2,525 residents
2,381 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Warmwell Holiday Park Grounds
BCT · Crossways
- 0.6 miles
Warmwell Caravan Park
BCT · Crossways
- 0.6 miles
Oakland
BCT · Crossways
- 0.6 miles
Warmwell Caravan Park
BCT · Crossways
- 0.6 miles
Warmwell Holiday Park
BCT · Crossways
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 036B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,486 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Frome Valley CofE First School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
95 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 50 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.