Property market
The five-year median is £655,000 from 3 recorded sales in DT6 5QA. 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.
DT6 5QA
Marshwood Vale · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bridport
- Ward
- Marshwood Vale
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT6
- Postcode sector
- DT6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT6 5QA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT6
- Postcode sector
- DT6 5
- Latitude
- 50.793602
- Longitude
- -2.876687
- British National Grid easting
- 338,306
- British National Grid northing
- 99,705
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Marshwood Vale · E05015782
- Parish or community
- E04003563
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00104139
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 023D · E01020535
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 023 · E02004273
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 DT6
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Ashlands, Marshwood, Bridport, DT6 5QA | 23 August 2022 | £458,000 |
| Old Chapel Yard, Lanham House, Marshwood, Bridport, DT6 5QA | 17 December 2021 | £681,500 |
| The Old Chapel, Marshwood, Bridport, DT6 5QA | 23 September 2021 | £655,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 106 m
Marshwood CofE Primary Academy
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- 3.7 km
Hawkchurch Church of England School
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- 3.7 km
Thorncombe, St Mary's Church of England Primary Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- DT6 5 residents
- 6,317
7 female, 6 male
Age bands in DT6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.3%
983 residents
574 residents
1,168 residents
1,773 residents
1,605 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DT6 5 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+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Gigabit-capable
- 80%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 80%
- 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
- 0.1 miles
Primary School
BCT · Marshwood
- 0.1 miles
Primary School
BCT · Marshwood
- 0.5 miles
Marshalsea Estate
BCT · Birdsmoor Gate
- 0.5 miles
Marshalsea Estate
BCT · Birdsmoor Gate
- 0.6 miles
Lamberts Castle
BCT · Marshwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 023D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,977 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 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
- 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
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Marshwood CofE Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 106 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.