Property market
The five-year median is £277,500 from 2 recorded sales in SP7 0DR. 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.
SP7 0DR
Beacon · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Shaftesbury
- Ward
- Beacon
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset
- Postcode district
- SP7
- Postcode sector
- SP7 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SP7 0DR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SP
- Postcode district
- SP7
- Postcode sector
- SP7 0
- Latitude
- 50.986916
- Longitude
- -2.161031
- British National Grid easting
- 388,793
- British National Grid northing
- 120,848
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Beacon · E05012682
- Parish or community
- E04003427
- Westminster constituency
- North Dorset · E14001388
- Output area
- E00103713
- 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 SP7
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Zig Zag View, East Melbury, Shaftesbury, SP7 0DR | 30 September 2025 | £335,000 |
| Silver Haze, East Melbury, Shaftesbury, SP7 0DR | 26 October 2023 | £220,000 |
| Orchard House, East Melbury, Shaftesbury, SP7 0DR | 9 January 2020 | £455,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.2 km
Coombe House School
Other independent special school
- 2.5 km
Ludwell Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 2.6 km
Shaftesbury School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 16
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 5
- Other theft 4
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Public order 2
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- SP7 0 residents
- 3,102
5 female, 3 male
Age bands in SP7 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.2%
384 residents
246 residents
649 residents
967 residents
880 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SP7 0 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
- 0.4 miles
Melbury Motors
BCT · Melbury Abbas
- 0.4 miles
Melbury Motors
BCT · Melbury Abbas
- 0.6 miles
Melbury Mill
BCT · Melbury Abbas
- 0.6 miles
Melbury Mill
BCT · Melbury Abbas
- 0.6 miles
School Lane
BCT · Melbury Abbas
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
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Coombe House School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
16 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.