Property market
The five-year median is £517,000 from 10 recorded sales in SP8 4AF. 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.
SP8 4AF
Gillingham · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Gillingham
- Ward
- Gillingham
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset
- Postcode district
- SP8
- Postcode sector
- SP8 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SP8 4AF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SP
- Postcode district
- SP8
- Postcode sector
- SP8 4
- Latitude
- 51.033144
- Longitude
- -2.291482
- British National Grid easting
- 379,657
- British National Grid northing
- 126,017
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Gillingham · E05012702
- Parish or community
- E04013378
- Westminster constituency
- North Dorset · E14001388
- Output area
- E00103731
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 001D · E01020464
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 001 · E02004255
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 SP8
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Great Barton Hill Road, Gillingham, SP8 4AF | 23 October 2025 | £535,000 |
| 3, Great Barton Hill Road, Gillingham, SP8 4AF | 26 June 2025 | £515,000 |
| 5, Great Barton Hill Road, Gillingham, SP8 4AF | 20 June 2025 | £513,750 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 428 m
Wyke Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.4 km
Gillingham Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Gillingham School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 327
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 107
- Anti social behaviour 83
- Criminal damage and arson 32
- Other theft 26
- Burglary 19
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SP8 4 residents
- 10,780
Age bands in SP8 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- 1,610 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- 1,045 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.5%
- 2,163 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- 2,899 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 27%
- 2,854 residents
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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
GILLINGHAM MEDICAL PRACTICE
BARN SURGERY, NEWBURY, GILLINGHAM, SP8 4XS
ODS code J81081
1.5 km
SILTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, GILLINGHAM ROAD, SILTON, GILLINGHAM, SP8 5DF
ODS code J83629
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 355 m
Laburnum Way
BCT · Wyke
- 358 m
Laburnum Way
BCT · Wyke
- 492 m
Primary School
BCT · Wyke
- 500 m
Primary School
BCT · Wyke
- 565 m
Maple Way
BCT · Wyke
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 001D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,784 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Wyke Primary School is the nearest published school at 428 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
327 published events cover 12 months, averaging 27 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 107 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.