Property market
The five-year median is £247,500 from 8 recorded sales in DT5 2DJ. 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.
DT5 2DJ
Portland · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT5 2DJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT5
- Postcode sector
- DT5 2
- Latitude
- 50.531466
- Longitude
- -2.443621
- British National Grid easting
- 368,654
- British National Grid northing
- 70,283
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Portland · E05012709
- Parish or community
- E04003630
- Westminster constituency
- South Dorset · E14001485
- Output area
- E00104322
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 048D · E01020566
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 048 · E02004289
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 DT5
Property
83 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 21, Avalanche Road, Portland, DT5 2DJ | 14 July 2026 | £245,000 |
| 6, Avalanche Road, Portland, DT5 2DJ | 27 May 2025 | £355,000 |
| 1d, Avalanche Road, Portland, DT5 2DJ | 24 April 2025 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 629 m
Atlantic Academy Portland
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
St George's Foundation Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 286
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 151
- Anti social behaviour 53
- Criminal damage and arson 26
- Other theft 18
- Shoplifting 11
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 131
- Postcode households
- 62
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- DT5 2 residents
- 6,448
71 female, 60 male
Age bands in DT5 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 26%
1,031 residents
562 residents
1,301 residents
1,738 residents
1,628 residents
This postcode contained 2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DT5 2 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+
- 98.4%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 98.4%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 98.4%
- Gigabit-capable
- 98.4%
- 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 straight-line
ROYAL MANOR HEALTH CARE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, PARK ESTATE ROAD, PORTLAND, DT5 2BJ
ODS code J81009
1.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Avalanche Church
BCT · Southwell
- 0.1 miles
Avalanche Road Church
BCT · Southwell
- 0.1 miles
Rushetts Close
BCT · Southwell
- 0.1 miles
Wheatlands
BCT · Southwell
- 0.2 miles
Sweethill Lane
BCT · Southwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 048D, 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
18,341 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
2 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Atlantic Academy Portland is the nearest published school at 629 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
286 published events cover 12 months, averaging 23.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 151 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.