Property market
The five-year median is £250,000 from 2 recorded sales in PO40 9TA. 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 9TA
Freshwater South · Isle of Wight · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Freshwater
- Ward
- Freshwater South
- 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 9TA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1986
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO40
- Postcode sector
- PO40 9
- Latitude
- 50.677752
- Longitude
- -1.503975
- British National Grid easting
- 435,143
- British National Grid northing
- 86,573
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Isle of Wight · E06000046
- Electoral ward
- Freshwater South · E05013373
- Parish or community
- E04001301
- Westminster constituency
- Isle of Wight West · E14001304
- Output area
- E00087439
- 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
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Afton Barns, Freshwater, PO40 9TA | 12 June 2025 | £210,000 |
| 6, Afton Barns, Freshwater, PO40 9TA | 12 August 2022 | £290,000 |
| 9, Afton Barns, Freshwater, PO40 9TA | 30 November 2020 | £235,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.6 km
St Saviour's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 3.0 km
Freshwater & Yarmouth Church of England Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 178
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 78
- Public order 29
- Shoplifting 15
- Anti social behaviour 15
- Criminal damage and arson 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 21
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- PO40 9 residents
- 5,706
13 female, 8 male
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
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PO40 9 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
1.5 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
Afton Barns
BCT · Afton
- 0.1 miles
The Apple Farm
BCT · Afton
- 0.2 miles
Newport Road
BCT · Afton
- 0.3 miles
Afton Corner
BCT · Afton
- 0.4 miles
Afton Marsh
BCT · Yarmouth
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.
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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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. St Saviour's Catholic Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
178 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 78 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.