Property market
The five-year median is £870,000 from 3 recorded sales in SP7 0QW. 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 0QW
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 0QW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SP
- Postcode district
- SP7
- Postcode sector
- SP7 0
- Latitude
- 50.993106
- Longitude
- -2.246789
- British National Grid easting
- 382,776
- British National Grid northing
- 121,553
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Beacon · E05012682
- Parish or community
- E04003441
- Westminster constituency
- North Dorset · E14001388
- Output area
- E00103726
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 002C · E01020462
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 002 · E02004256
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
28 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Ancombe, Stour Row, Shaftesbury, SP7 0QW | 31 October 2024 | £870,000 |
| The Orchard, Stour Row, Shaftesbury, SP7 0QW | 10 November 2023 | £940,000 |
| Miraj, Stour Row, Shaftesbury, SP7 0QW | 27 January 2023 | £539,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.2 km
Stower Provost Community School
Community school
- 3.3 km
The Abbey CofE VA Primary School, Shaftesbury
Voluntary aided school
- 3.7 km
Port Regis Preparatory School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Anti social behaviour 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 62
- Postcode households
- 28
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- SP7 0 residents
- 3,102
31 female, 31 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 2% 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
- 3.2%
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
- 1.0 miles
Coles Lane Cross
BCT · Shaftesbury
- 1.0 miles
Coles Lane Cross
BCT · Shaftesbury
- 1.0 miles
Little Frys
BCT · Sherborne Causeway
- 1.0 miles
Little Frys
BCT · Sherborne Causeway
- 1.2 miles
Coles Lane Farm
BCT · Shaftesbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 002C, 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
18,884 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Stower Provost Community School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.