Property market
The five-year median is £200,000 from 3 recorded sales in PO38 1BD. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Isle of Wight is £240,998 in June 2026, up 1.1% year on year.
PO38 1BD
Wroxall, Lowtherville & Bonchurch · Isle of Wight · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ventnor
- Local authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight East
- Postcode district
- PO38
- Postcode sector
- PO38 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO38 1BD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO38
- Postcode sector
- PO38 1
- Latitude
- 50.599065
- Longitude
- -1.217351
- British National Grid easting
- 455,487
- British National Grid northing
- 77,998
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Isle of Wight · E06000046
- Electoral ward
- Wroxall, Lowtherville & Bonchurch · E05013397
- Parish or community
- E04001316
- Westminster constituency
- Isle of Wight East · E14001303
- Output area
- E00087702
- Lower layer super output area
- Isle of Wight 018D · E01017366
- Middle layer super output area
- Isle of Wight 018 · E02003598
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 PO38
Property
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 98, Newport Road, Ventnor, PO38 1BD | 18 June 2024 | £217,500 |
| 102, Newport Road, Ventnor, PO38 1BD | 13 February 2024 | £200,000 |
| 63, Newport Road, Ventnor, PO38 1BD | 22 August 2022 | £177,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 131 m
The Island Free School
Free schools
- 245 m
St Francis Catholic and Church of England Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 778 m
St Catherine's School and College
Non-maintained special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 442
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 203
- Public order 51
- Anti social behaviour 45
- Shoplifting 41
- Criminal damage and arson 28
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 63
- Postcode households
- 20
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- PO38 1 residents
- 5,546
33 female, 30 male
Age bands in PO38 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 33.7%
670 residents
423 residents
895 residents
1,704 residents
1,873 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PO38 1 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
1
within 5 km
VENTNOR MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 ALBERT STREET, VENTNOR, PO38 1EZ
ODS code J84003
1.1 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
York Road
BCT · Upper Ventnor
- 0.1 miles
York Road
BCT · Upper Ventnor
- 0.1 miles
Island Free School
BCT · Upper Ventnor
- 0.1 miles
Island Free School
BCT · Upper Ventnor
- 0.2 miles
Steephill Down Road
BCT · Upper Ventnor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Isle of Wight 018D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,568 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 3
- 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
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Island Free School is the nearest published school at 131 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
442 published events cover 12 months, averaging 36.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 203 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.