Property market
The five-year median is £983,500 from 4 recorded sales in DT6 6RP. 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 6RP
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT6 6RP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT6
- Postcode sector
- DT6 6
- Latitude
- 50.770413
- Longitude
- -2.862908
- British National Grid easting
- 339,247
- British National Grid northing
- 97,115
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Marshwood Vale · E05015782
- Parish or community
- E04013391
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00104142
- 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
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Vale House Farm, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Bridport, DT6 6RP | 27 September 2024 | £1,097,000 |
| Longleaze, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Bridport, DT6 6RP | 6 July 2023 | £542,000 |
| Prime Farm, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Bridport, DT6 6RP | 16 June 2023 | £870,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.7 km
Marshwood CofE Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 4.7 km
Charmouth Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 3.4
- DT6 6 residents
- 3,510
11 female, 6 male
Age bands in DT6 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 12.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 40.9%
351 residents
268 residents
451 residents
1,034 residents
1,454 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DT6 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 28.6%
- 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
- 0.8 miles
Taphouse Farm
BCT · Shave Cross
- 1.1 miles
Lower Street
BCT · Whitchurch Canonicorum
- 1.1 miles
Lower Street
BCT · Whitchurch Canonicorum
- 1.1 miles
Cross Cottage
BCT · Whitchurch Canonicorum
- 1.1 miles
Cross Cottage
BCT · Whitchurch Canonicorum
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
- 1
- 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 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Marshwood CofE Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.