Property market
The five-year median is £3,010,000 from 1 recorded sale in DT8 3SG. 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.
DT8 3SG
Beaminster · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Beaminster
- Ward
- Beaminster
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT8
- Postcode sector
- DT8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT8 3SG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT8
- Postcode sector
- DT8 3
- Latitude
- 50.827306
- Longitude
- -2.704435
- British National Grid easting
- 350,482
- British National Grid northing
- 103,323
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Beaminster · E05012683
- Parish or community
- E04003498
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00103903
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 019A · E01020494
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 019 · E02004271
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 DT8
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Kitwhistle Farm, Beaminster, DT8 3SG | 7 June 2024 | £3,010,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.9 km
Beaminster School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.3 km
Mountjoy School
Community special school
- 3.5 km
Beaminster St Mary's Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- DT8 3 residents
- 6,065
7 female, 7 male
Age bands in DT8 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 35.7%
743 residents
497 residents
954 residents
1,772 residents
2,204 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DT8 3 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+
- 28.6%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 28.6%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 28.6%
- Gigabit-capable
- 28.6%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 14.3%
- Next Generation Access
- 85.7%
- 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
BARTON HOUSE MED PRACTICE
BARTON HOUSE, BEAMINSTER, DT8 3EQ
ODS code J81074
3.1 km
Nearby transport
- 1.5 miles
High Street
BCT · Corscombe
- 1.5 miles
High Street
BCT · Corscombe
- 1.5 miles
Higher Green
BCT · Beaminster
- 1.6 miles
Butchers Cottage
BCT · Corscombe
- 1.6 miles
Butchers Cottage
BCT · Corscombe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 019A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,999 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
- 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
Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 1 secondary schools. Beaminster School is the nearest published school at 1.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 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.