Property market
The five-year median is £4,200,000 from 1 recorded sale in SP5 5AX. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Dorset is £325,410 in June 2026, up 1.6% year on year.
SP5 5AX
Beacon · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SP5 5AX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2008
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SP
- Postcode district
- SP5
- Postcode sector
- SP5 5
- Latitude
- 50.966033
- Longitude
- -2.157171
- British National Grid easting
- 389,059
- British National Grid northing
- 118,525
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Beacon · E05012682
- Parish or community
- E04003401
- Westminster constituency
- North Dorset · E14001388
- Output area
- E00103710
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 006D · E01020460
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 006 · E02004259
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Compton Abbas Airfield, Top Deck Apartment, Ashmore, Salisbury, SP5 5AX | 31 January 2023 | £4,200,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 3.0 km
St Andrew's Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 4.3 km
Ludwell Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 4.5 km
Coombe House School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Public order 1
- Vehicle crime 1
- Possession of weapons 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- SP5 5 residents
- 3,188
2 female, 1 male
Age bands in SP5 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.8%
412 residents
218 residents
467 residents
1,000 residents
849 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SP5 5 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.
Nearby transport
- 1.0 miles
School Lane
BCT · Melbury Abbas
- 1.0 miles
School Lane
BCT · Melbury Abbas
- 1.4 miles
Compton Abbas Church
BCT · Compton Abbas
- 1.4 miles
Compton Abbas Church
BCT · Compton Abbas
- 1.5 miles
The Pond
BCT · Ashmore
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 006D, 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
17,354 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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
- 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 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. St Andrew's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Public order with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.