Property market
The five-year median is £405,000 from 1 recorded sale in DT3 6HZ. 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.
DT3 6HZ
Littlemoor & Preston · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Weymouth
- Ward
- Littlemoor & Preston
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT3
- Postcode sector
- DT3 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT3 6HZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT3
- Postcode sector
- DT3 6
- Latitude
- 50.634671
- Longitude
- -2.438541
- British National Grid easting
- 369,082
- British National Grid northing
- 81,757
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Littlemoor & Preston · E05012704
- Parish or community
- E04013390
- Westminster constituency
- South Dorset · E14001485
- Output area
- E00104283
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 040A · E01020557
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 040 · E02004282
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 DT3
Property
13 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Birch Way, Preston, Weymouth, DT3 6HZ | 23 February 2023 | £405,000 |
| 2, Birch Way, Preston, Weymouth, DT3 6HZ | 17 October 2016 | £320,000 |
| 1, Birch Way, Preston, Weymouth, DT3 6HZ | 9 February 2016 | £430,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.2 km
St Andrew's Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.3 km
Westfield Arts College
Foundation special school
- 1.3 km
St John's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 369
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 149
- Anti social behaviour 102
- Criminal damage and arson 38
- Other theft 24
- Public order 20
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- DT3 6 residents
- 8,920
12 female, 8 male
Age bands in DT3 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 34.6%
1,188 residents
718 residents
1,461 residents
2,496 residents
3,098 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DT3 6 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
WEYMOUTH BAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 CRESCENT STREET, WEYMOUTH, DT4 7BY
ODS code J81027
2.2 km
THE BRIDGES MEDICAL CTR.
26 COMMERCIAL ROAD, WEYMOUTH, DT4 7DW
ODS code J81073
2.6 km
CROSS ROAD SURGERY
CROSS ROAD, WEYMOUTH, DT4 9QX
ODS code J81075
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Melstock Avenue
BCT · Overcombe
- 0.3 miles
Melstock Avenue
BCT · Overcombe
- 0.3 miles
Overcombe Corner
BCT · Overcombe
- 0.3 miles
Overcombe Corner
BCT · Overcombe
- 0.3 miles
Eadon Close
BCT · Overcombe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 040A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,620 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
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
20 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. St Andrew's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
369 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 149 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.