Property market
The five-year median is £372,500 from 3 recorded sales in DT2 8NJ. 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 8NJ
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 8NJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT2
- Postcode sector
- DT2 8
- Latitude
- 50.633764
- Longitude
- -2.335156
- British National Grid easting
- 376,393
- British National Grid northing
- 81,618
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Crossways · E05012695
- Parish or community
- E04003578
- Westminster constituency
- South Dorset · E14001485
- Output area
- E00104162
- 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
13 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Whitenothe Cottages, 2, Holworth, Dorchester, DT2 8NJ | 19 October 2023 | £235,000 |
| 6 White Nothe Cottages, Holworth, Dorchester, DT2 8NJ | 15 September 2023 | £372,500 |
| Cliff House, Holworth, Dorchester, DT2 8NJ | 31 March 2023 | £1,840,000 |
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.4
- DT2 8 residents
- 8,366
3 female, 4 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DT2 8 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+
- 0%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 1.2 miles
West Chaldon Farm
BCT · Chaldon Herring
- 1.2 miles
West Chaldon Farm
BCT · Chaldon Herring
- 1.8 miles
Holiday Club
BCT · Osmington Mills
- 2.0 miles
Lilac Cottage
BCT · East Chaldon
- 2.0 miles
Poxwell
BCT · Warmwell
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.
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
- 1
- 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
Recorded crime
4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.