Property market
The five-year median is £425,000 from 11 recorded sales in SP5 3LY. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Wiltshire is £328,908 in June 2026, up 2.7% year on year.
SP5 3LY
Downton & Ebble Valley · Wiltshire · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SP5 3LY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SP
- Postcode district
- SP5
- Postcode sector
- SP5 3
- Latitude
- 50.993135
- Longitude
- -1.749591
- British National Grid easting
- 417,670
- British National Grid northing
- 121,557
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Wiltshire · E06000054
- Electoral ward
- Downton & Ebble Valley · E05013432
- Parish or community
- E04011700
- Westminster constituency
- Salisbury · E14001460
- Output area
- E00163159
- Lower layer super output area
- Wiltshire 062E · E01031995
- Middle layer super output area
- Wiltshire 062 · E02006677
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 SP5
Property
54 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Old Granary, Flat 3, The Borough, Downton, Salisbury, SP5 3LY | 2 March 2026 | £178,500 |
| 98, The Borough, Downton, Salisbury, SP5 3LY | 5 September 2025 | £619,000 |
| The Old Granary, 4, The Borough, Downton, Salisbury, SP5 3LY | 29 August 2025 | £285,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 243 m
Downton CofE VA Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 560 m
The Trafalgar School at Downton
Academy converter
- 2.2 km
Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 127
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 32
- Violence and sexual offences 31
- Anti social behaviour 21
- Vehicle crime 13
- Public order 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 52
- Postcode households
- 31
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- SP5 3 residents
- 6,237
24 female, 28 male
Age bands in SP5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.4%
980 residents
522 residents
1,335 residents
1,875 residents
1,690 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SP5 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+
- 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
DOWNTON SURGERY
MOOT LANE, DOWNTON, SALISBURY, SP5 3JP
ODS code J83043
558 m
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Green Lane
BCT · Downton
- 0.0 miles
Green Lane
BCT · Downton
- 0.1 miles
Mill Race View
BCT · Downton
- 0.1 miles
Co-op
BCT · Downton
- 0.1 miles
Co-op
BCT · Downton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wiltshire 062E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,227 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
- 2
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 27
- 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
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Downton CofE VA Primary School is the nearest published school at 243 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
127 published events cover 12 months, averaging 10.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 32 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.