Property market
The five-year median is £225,000 from 3 recorded sales in PO40 9GH. 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.
PO40 9GH
Freshwater North & Yarmouth · Isle of Wight · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Freshwater
- Local authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West
- Postcode district
- PO40
- Postcode sector
- PO40 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO40 9GH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO40
- Postcode sector
- PO40 9
- Latitude
- 50.691826
- Longitude
- -1.519018
- British National Grid easting
- 434,070
- British National Grid northing
- 88,131
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Isle of Wight · E06000046
- Electoral ward
- Freshwater North & Yarmouth · E05013372
- Parish or community
- E04001301
- Westminster constituency
- Isle of Wight West · E14001304
- Output area
- E00087440
- Lower layer super output area
- Isle of Wight 012H · E01033239
- Middle layer super output area
- Isle of Wight 012 · E02003592
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 PO40
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Mellow House, Woodpecker Drive, Freshwater, PO40 9GH | 23 June 2025 | £663,000 |
| Mellow House, Woodpecker Drive, Freshwater, PO40 9GH | 20 February 2024 | £200,000 |
| Oak Hill House, Woodpecker Drive, Freshwater, PO40 9GH | 31 May 2022 | £225,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.0 km
Freshwater & Yarmouth Church of England Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.2 km
St Saviour's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 374
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 179
- Public order 45
- Anti social behaviour 37
- Criminal damage and arson 34
- Shoplifting 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PO40 9 residents
- 5,706
Age bands in PO40 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 38.4%
589 residents
447 residents
833 residents
1,623 residents
2,177 residents
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+
- 25%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Gigabit-capable
- 25%
- 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
WIGHT PRIMARY PARTNERSHIPS LTD
BROOKSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, QUEENS ROAD, FRESHWATER, PO40 9DT
ODS code J84019
1.2 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
- 0.1 miles
Salisbury Cottage
BCT · Norton Green
- 0.2 miles
Norton Green
BCT · Norton Green
- 0.2 miles
Norton Green
BCT · Norton Green
- 0.2 miles
Hill Farm
BCT · Norton Green
- 0.3 miles
Hill Farm
BCT · Norton Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Isle of Wight 012H, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,688 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Freshwater & Yarmouth Church of England Aided Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
374 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 179 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.