SP5 postcode district: Downton and around
SP5 is a postcode district in England, with 1,037 postcodes in use in 5 sectors. It has postcodes in Downton, Redlynch, Whaddon and 1 more place. It is split between 4 councils: Wiltshire (891 postcodes), Dorset (74), Test Valley (69) and 1 other. 72 of its 1,037 postcodes are in Hampshire. ONS lists no county for the other 965.
- Postcodes in use
- 1,037
- Sectors
- 5
- Councils
- 4 councils
- Places
- 4 places
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Every postcode in SP5, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 286
- Some can get gigabit: 219
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 512
- Ofcom gives no figure: 20
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together
Of the 1,037 postcodes in SP5 that ONS places, 286 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 219 have some that can, 512 can all get it and 20 have no Ofcom figure.
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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 250 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 51.0215, longitude -1.7707. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 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.
Postcodes without gigabit
286 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.
Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together
- 31 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. SP5 2SQ, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 21 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. SP5 4LT, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 12 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. SP5 2BN, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 9 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. SP5 5BA, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 7 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. SP5 2AA, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 7 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. SP5 5EX, is the one nearest the middle of them.
What broadband can you get in SP5?
Ofcom reports on 1,017 of the 1,037 postcodes in SP5. At 512 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 32 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 SP5 at risk of flooding?
97 of the 1,037 postcodes in SP5 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 164 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 SP5?
Homes in SP5 sold for a typical £455,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 233 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £480,000 from 269 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £588,750 138 sales
- Semi-detached £356,250 54 sales
- Terraced £320,000 31 sales
- Flat or maisonette £166,000 10 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 SP5
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in SP5
Towns and villages with postcodes in SP5, and how many each has here.
Who covers SP5
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
- Salisbury891
- North Dorset74
- Romsey and Southampton North69
- New Forest West2
- New Forest East1
Police force areas
- Wiltshire891
- Dorset74
- Hampshire72
Next to SP5
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after SP5 in the SP 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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