Lytchett Matravers

Lytchett Matravers is covered by postcode district BH16. It is in the Dorset council area, England.

Typical price £430,000 Homes sold in Lytchett Matravers, last 12 months. ▲ 12.9% on the year before Gigabit broadband 50 of 75 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Not on the at-risk list No postcode here has a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Lytchett Matravers, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Lytchett Matravers, by flood risk Of the 77 postcodes in Lytchett Matravers that ONS places, 77 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Lytchett Matravers. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. BH16 6AS: not on the flood risk listBH16 6AT: not on the flood risk listBH16 6AU: not on the flood risk listBH16 6AY: not on the flood risk listBH16 6AZ: not on the flood risk listBH16 6BD: not on the flood risk listBH16 6BE: not on the flood risk listBH16 6BF: not on the flood risk listBH16 6BG: not on the flood risk listBH16 6BH: not on the flood risk listBH16 6BJ: not on the flood risk listBH16 6BL: not on the flood risk listBH16 6BN: not on the flood risk listBH16 6BP: not on the flood risk listBH16 6BQ: not on the flood risk listBH16 6BW: not on the flood risk listBH16 6BX: not on the flood risk listBH16 6BY: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DD: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DE: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DF: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DG: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DH: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DJ: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DL: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DN: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DQ: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DR: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DS: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DT: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DU: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DW: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DX: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DY: not on the flood risk listBH16 6DZ: not on the flood risk listBH16 6EA: not on the flood risk listBH16 6EB: not on the flood risk listBH16 6ED: not on the flood risk listBH16 6EE: not on the flood risk listBH16 6EF: not on the flood risk listBH16 6EG: not on the flood risk listBH16 6EL: not on the flood risk listBH16 6EN: not on the flood risk listBH16 6EQ: not on the flood risk listBH16 6EW: not on the flood risk listBH16 6FA: not on the flood risk listBH16 6FB: not on the flood risk listBH16 6FD: not on the flood risk listBH16 6FF: not on the flood risk listBH16 6FG: not on the flood risk listBH16 6FP: not on the flood risk listBH16 6FR: not on the flood risk listBH16 6GD: not on the flood risk listBH16 6GE: not on the flood risk listBH16 6GP: not on the flood risk listBH16 6HA: not on the flood risk listBH16 6HB: not on the flood risk listBH16 6HD: not on the flood risk listBH16 6HE: not on the flood risk listBH16 6HF: not on the flood risk listBH16 6HG: not on the flood risk listBH16 6HH: not on the flood risk listBH16 6HJ: not on the flood risk listBH16 6HN: not on the flood risk listBH16 6LH: not on the flood risk listBH16 6LJ: not on the flood risk listBH16 6LY: not on the flood risk listBH16 6LZ: not on the flood risk listBH16 6NA: not on the flood risk listBH16 6NB: not on the flood risk listBH16 6ND: not on the flood risk listBH16 6NE: not on the flood risk listBH16 6NF: not on the flood risk listBH16 6NG: not on the flood risk listBH16 6NH: not on the flood risk list Lytchett Matravers Map of every postcode in Lytchett Matravers, by flood risk Of the 77 postcodes in Lytchett Matravers that ONS places, 77 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Lytchett Matravers. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Lytchett Matravers
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 77

Of the 77 postcodes in Lytchett Matravers that ONS places, 77 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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. 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 50.7569, longitude -2.0792. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: 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. How we use them

What is it like to live in Lytchett Matravers?

Homes sold for a typical £430,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 12.9% on the 12 months before. At 50 of the 75 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 77 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Sandford Surgery, 5.6 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Holton Heath, 5.1 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Lytchett Matravers?

Homes in Lytchett Matravers sold for a typical £430,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 42 sales, up 12.9% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£430,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£381,000 12 months to August 2025
▲ up 12.9% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £500,000 27 sales
  • Semi-detached £302,500 8 sales
  • Terraced 4 sales, too few to price
  • Flat or maisonette 3 sales, too few to price

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

Across the whole BH16 district, Lytchett Matravers's main postcode district: a typical £310,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Lytchett Matravers: 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 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

Are new homes being built in Lytchett Matravers?

4 of the 77 postcodes now in use in Lytchett Matravers came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 46 homes sold in Lytchett Matravers were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BH16 district, 0%.

The newest postcodes

BH16 6GRsince April 2026BH16 6GPsince April 2023BH16 6GEsince September 2021BH16 6GDsince December 2020

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn Lytchett MatraversAcross the BH16 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 42 (0%) 0 of 182 (0%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 46 (0%) 0 of 243 (0%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Lytchett Matravers?

Ofcom reports on 75 of the 77 postcodes in Lytchett Matravers. At 50 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit50 of 75
Postcodes where every home can get superfast69 of 75
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 75

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.

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Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Lytchett Matravers at risk of flooding?

None of the 77 postcodes in Lytchett Matravers is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Lytchett Matravers?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Lytchett Matravers. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Lytchett Matravers?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Lytchett Matravers is Holton Heath Rail Station, 5.1 km away in a straight line.

  • Holton Heath Rail Station Railway station 5.1 kmDrive
  • Hamworthy Rail Station Railway station 5.5 kmDrive
  • Wareham Rail Station Railway station 7.6 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Lytchett Matravers?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Lytchett Matravers. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Lytchett Matravers safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 119 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Lytchett Matravers over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 9 September 2025
  2. 13 October 2025
  3. 13 November 2025
  4. 14 December 2025
  5. 12 January 2026
  6. 4 February 2026
  7. 6 March 2026
  8. 4 April 2026
  9. 8 May 2026
  10. 11 June 2026
  11. 15 July 2026
  12. 10 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences55 reports
Anti-social behaviour18 reports
Criminal damage and arson14 reports
Vehicle crime8 reports
Public order7 reports
Burglary4 reports
Shoplifting4 reports
Other theft4 reports

Also: other crime 3, bicycle theft 1, drugs 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Lytchett Matravers?

Council
Dorset
Parliamentary constituency
Mid Dorset and North Poole
Police force area
Dorset
Region
South West
Country
England
MP
Vikki Slade (Liberal Democrat)

All 77 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

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Lytchett Matravers postcodes

77 postcodes in use in Lytchett Matravers, by district:

BH16 postcode district,77 postcodes

That district is in the BH postcode area.

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Places near Lytchett Matravers

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Lytchett Matravers's £430,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Upton4.1 km, £305,000Corfe Mullen4.6 km, £397,500Wareham7.8 km, £350,000Merley8.3 km, £435,000Poole8.9 km, £335,000Wimborne Minster9.1 km, £385,000Bearwood10.3 km, £317,500Blandford Forum12.8 km, £290,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Lytchett Matravers

What is it like to live in Lytchett Matravers?
Homes sold for a typical £430,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 12.9% on the 12 months before. At 50 of the 75 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 77 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Sandford Surgery, 5.6 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Holton Heath, 5.1 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Lytchett Matravers?
Lytchett Matravers is covered by postcode district BH16, across 77 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Lytchett Matravers in?
Lytchett Matravers is in the Dorset council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Lytchett Matravers?
Lytchett Matravers is in the Mid Dorset and North Poole parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Vikki Slade (Liberal Democrat), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Lytchett Matravers?
Homes in Lytchett Matravers sold for a typical £430,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 42 sales, up 12.9% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Lytchett Matravers?
In Lytchett Matravers, primary schools at its postcodes include Lytchett Matravers Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Lytchett Minster School, 2.3 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Lytchett Matravers have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Lytchett Matravers is Holton Heath, 5.1 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Lytchett Matravers?
Ofcom reports on 75 of the 77 postcodes in Lytchett Matravers. At 50 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Lytchett Matravers at risk of flooding?
None of the 77 postcodes in Lytchett Matravers is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Lytchett Matravers?
4 of the 77 postcodes now in use in Lytchett Matravers came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 46 homes sold in Lytchett Matravers were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BH16 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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