Property market
The five-year median is £636,000 from 4 recorded sales in SP6 3LN. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for New Forest is £380,310 in June 2026, up 1.2% year on year.
SP6 3LN
Downlands & Forest North · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Fordingbridge
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West
- Postcode district
- SP6
- Postcode sector
- SP6 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SP6 3LN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SP
- Postcode district
- SP6
- Postcode sector
- SP6 3
- Latitude
- 50.977314
- Longitude
- -1.905320
- British National Grid easting
- 406,743
- British National Grid northing
- 119,772
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Downlands & Forest North · E05014777
- Parish or community
- E04004577
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest West · E14001374
- Output area
- E00116927
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 001A · E01023011
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 001 · E02004779
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 SP6
Property
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Lilac Cottage, Martin, Fordingbridge, SP6 3LN | 29 October 2024 | £622,000 |
| Broad Lane Cottage, Martin, Fordingbridge, SP6 3LN | 31 July 2024 | £560,000 |
| Peacehaven, Martin, Fordingbridge, SP6 3LN | 17 March 2023 | £650,000 |
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 4
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Other crime 2
- Public order 2
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 31
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- SP6 3 residents
- 4,704
14 female, 17 male
Age bands in SP6 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.8%
675 residents
419 residents
857 residents
1,530 residents
1,210 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SP6 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Townsend Lane
BCT · Martin
- 0.2 miles
Townsend Lane
BCT · Martin
- 0.2 miles
Sillens Lane
BCT · Martin
- 0.2 miles
Sillens Lane
BCT · Martin
- 1.3 miles
Martin Drove End
BCT · Martin Drove End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 001A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,380 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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
Recorded crime
13 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.