PO38 postcode district: Ventnor and around, Isle of Wight
PO38 is a postcode district in England, with 598 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in Ventnor, Niton and Wroxall. Its council is Isle of Wight.
- Postcodes in use
- 598
- Sectors
- 4
- Council
- Isle of Wight
- Places
- 3 places
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Every postcode in PO38, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 22
- In use before 2020: 576
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 598 postcodes in PO38 that ONS places, 22 are new since 2020 and 576 were in use before 2020.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 180 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 50.6063, longitude -1.2441. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
The 5 newest postcodes
Where the new postcodes lie together
- 10 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. PO38 3FB, is the newest of them.
What broadband can you get in PO38?
Ofcom reports on 592 of the 598 postcodes in PO38. At 268 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is PO38 at risk of flooding?
25 of the 598 postcodes in PO38 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 31 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
What do homes sell for in PO38?
Homes in PO38 sold for a typical £265,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 174 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £300,000 from 207 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £410,500 64 sales
- Semi-detached £247,500 56 sales
- Terraced £220,000 31 sales
- Flat or maisonette £159,950 23 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Postcodes in PO38
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in PO38
Towns and villages with postcodes in PO38, and how many each has here.
Who covers PO38
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
What council am I in?Constituencies
- Isle of Wight East328
- Isle of Wight West270
Police force areas
- Hampshire598
Next to PO38
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after PO38 in the PO area.
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Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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