Property market
The five-year median is £610,000 from 2 recorded sales in PO38 2LQ. 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 2LQ
Chale, Niton & Shorwell · Isle of Wight · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ventnor
- Local authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West
- Postcode district
- PO38
- Postcode sector
- PO38 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO38 2LQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO38
- Postcode sector
- PO38 2
- Latitude
- 50.618567
- Longitude
- -1.348261
- British National Grid easting
- 446,203
- British National Grid northing
- 80,077
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Isle of Wight · E06000046
- Electoral ward
- Chale, Niton & Shorwell · E05013365
- Parish or community
- E04001314
- Westminster constituency
- Isle of Wight West · E14001304
- Output area
- E00087359
- Lower layer super output area
- Isle of Wight 017A · E01017297
- Middle layer super output area
- Isle of Wight 017 · E02003597
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
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Jasmine Cottage, Atherfield Road, Atherfield, Ventnor, PO38 2LQ | 29 November 2023 | £430,000 |
| Meadlands, Atherfield Road, Atherfield, Ventnor, PO38 2LQ | 21 June 2022 | £790,000 |
| Jasmine Cottage, Atherfield, Ventnor, PO38 2LQ | 2 October 2015 | £325,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 4.3 km
Brighstone Church of England Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 19
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- PO38 2 residents
- 2,937
10 female, 9 male
Age bands in PO38 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 35.3%
324 residents
197 residents
415 residents
855 residents
978 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PO38 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+
- 87.5%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 87.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 87.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 87.5%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 87.5%
- 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
SOUTH WIGHT MEDICAL PRACTICE
BRIGHSTONE SURGERY, NEW ROAD, BRIGHSTONE, NEWPORT, PO30 4BB
ODS code J84016
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Atherfield Coastguard Cottage
BCT · Shorwell
- 0.6 miles
Atherfield Coastguard Cottages
BCT · Shorwell
- 0.8 miles
Chine Farm
BCT · Yafford
- 0.9 miles
Chine Farm
BCT · Yafford
- 1.1 miles
Whale Chine
BCT · Chale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Isle of Wight 017A, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,925 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 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
1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Brighstone Church of England Aided Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.