Property market
The five-year median is £637,500 from 2 recorded sales in SP8 5HX. 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 5HX
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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SP8 5HX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SP
- Postcode district
- SP8
- Postcode sector
- SP8 5
- Latitude
- 51.025646
- Longitude
- -2.341041
- British National Grid easting
- 376,178
- British National Grid northing
- 125,198
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Gillingham · E05012702
- Parish or community
- E04003396
- Westminster constituency
- North Dorset · E14001388
- Output area
- E00103584
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 002A · E01020440
- 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 SP8
Property
26 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Birchlea, Shepherds Hill, Buckhorn Weston, Gillingham, SP8 5HX | 8 October 2025 | £325,000 |
| Vespers Hollow, Shepherds Hill, Buckhorn Weston, Gillingham, SP8 5HX | 11 November 2022 | £950,000 |
| Springfield Farm, Shepherds Hill, Buckhorn Weston, Gillingham, SP8 5HX | 24 June 2021 | £1,076,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.9 km
Wyke Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 5.0 km
Gillingham Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 12
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 2
- Public order 2
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Violence and sexual offences 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 50
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- SP8 5 residents
- 3,606
26 female, 24 male
Age bands in SP8 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.9%
510 residents
291 residents
601 residents
1,223 residents
1,231 residents
This postcode contained 1.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SP8 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.
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
- 0.5 miles
Stapleton Arms
BCT · Buckhorn Weston
- 0.5 miles
Stapleton Arms
BCT · Buckhorn Weston
- 1.3 miles
Pill Meadow
BCT · Kington Magna
- 1.3 miles
Pill Meadow
BCT · Kington Magna
- 1.6 miles
Church Farm Cottage
BCT · Cucklington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 002A, 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
19,125 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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
- 2
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Wyke Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
12 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.