DY postcode area: Dudley

The DY postcode area is known as the Dudley area. It is every postcode that begins DY followed by a number. It has 14 districts and 11,102 postcodes in use, across 9 councils.

Homes in the DY area sold for a typical £245,000 in the 12 months to August 2026. By district, that runs from £205,000 in DY2 (Dudley) to £381,500 in DY7 (Kinver).

For the town itself, see Dudley postcodes.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The name is the one the area is commonly known by; it is not part of the ONS data. See all our data sources

Where it is

Latitude 52.4528

Longitude -2.1815

This is the middle of the postcodes in the DY area. An area can be many miles across, and we do not draw its boundary.

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Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. How we use it

What do homes cost in the DY area?

Homes in the DY area sold for a typical £245,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 3,890 sales, down 1.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£245,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£248,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 1.2% on the 12 months before

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value at the area's postcodes. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Each district below has its own, and each postcode page the figure for its sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

How many postcodes are there in the UK?

How do the DY districts compare?

A district is the first half of a postcode. Each row gives its typical home price, how many of its postcodes can get gigabit broadband for every home, and how many have a home at flood risk. Each opens the district.

Prices: HM Land Registry, files dated 28 September 2026; the bar is set against the dearest district. Gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, counting postcodes. Flood: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026, postcodes in England with a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea. How we use them

One row for every district in the area. "No place listed" means no town or village is large enough to list for it.

Places in the DY area

Towns and villages with postcodes in the DY area, each with the typical price of a home there where at least 5 sold.

Councils in the DY area

How many of the area's postcodes fall under each council.

  • Dudley5,672 postcodes
  • Wyre Forest2,983 postcodes
  • Sandwell935 postcodes
  • Shropshire474 postcodes
  • South Staffordshire443 postcodes
  • Bromsgrove333 postcodes
  • Wychavon131 postcodes
  • Malvern Hills130 postcodes
  • Wolverhampton1 postcode
What council am I in?

Near the DY area

The postcode areas whose centre points are nearest to this one's, nearest first.

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