Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury is covered by postcode district SP7. It is mostly in the Dorset council area: 279 of its 282 postcodes. The others are in Wiltshire.
Every postcode in Shaftesbury, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 17
- In use before 2020: 265
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 282 postcodes in Shaftesbury that ONS places, 17 are new since 2020 and 265 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 150 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 51.0071, longitude -2.1912. 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
- 6 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. SP7 8TR, is the newest of them.
What is it like to live in Shaftesbury?
Homes sold for a typical £285,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 206 of the 269 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 282 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 2 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Gillingham Medical Practice, 6.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Gillingham (Dorset), 6.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Shaftesbury?
Homes in Shaftesbury sold for a typical £285,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 145 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £269,000 from 200 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £413,750 54 sales
- Semi-detached £280,000 25 sales
- Terraced £220,000 51 sales
- Flat or maisonette £150,000 15 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole SP7 district, Shaftesbury's main postcode district: a typical £324,500.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Shaftesbury: 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.
Are new homes being built in Shaftesbury?
17 of the 282 postcodes now in use in Shaftesbury came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 16 of the 200 homes sold in Shaftesbury were newly built (8%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SP7 district, 14%.
The newest postcodes
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
| Period | In Shaftesbury | Across the SP7 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 1 of 145 (Under 1%) | 5 of 196 (3%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 16 of 200 (8%) | 43 of 311 (14%) |
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.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Shaftesbury?
Ofcom reports on 269 of the 282 postcodes in Shaftesbury. At 206 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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 Shaftesbury at risk of flooding?
None of the 282 postcodes in Shaftesbury 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Shaftesbury?
The open schools at the postcodes in Shaftesbury. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Shaftesbury?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Shaftesbury is Gillingham (Dorset) Rail Station, 6.4 km away in a straight line.
- Gillingham (Dorset) Rail Station Railway station 6.4 kmDrive
- Tisbury Rail Station Railway station 9.9 kmDrive
- Templecombe Rail Station Railway station 15.9 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Shaftesbury?
There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Shaftesbury. 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.
- Gillingham Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01747 824201 6.4 kmDrive
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Shaftesbury safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 689 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Shaftesbury 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
- 54 September 2025
- 45 October 2025
- 40 November 2025
- 59 December 2025
- 46 January 2026
- 57 February 2026
- 59 March 2026
- 51 April 2026
- 66 May 2026
- 63 June 2026
- 88 July 2026
- 61 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 12, drugs 11, robbery 4, theft from the person 3, bicycle theft 1, possession of weapons 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 postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Shaftesbury?
- Parliamentary constituencies
- North Dorset (279) and Salisbury (3)
- Police force areas
- Dorset (279) and Wiltshire (3)
- Region
- South West
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Moving to Shaftesbury
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Shaftesbury is in Dorset; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Dorset about council tax Council tax, on dorsetcouncil.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The nearest GP practices
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Shaftesbury postcodes
282 postcodes in use in Shaftesbury, by district:
That district is in the SP postcode area.
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Places near Shaftesbury
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Shaftesbury's £285,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Shaftesbury
- What is the postcode for Shaftesbury?
- Postcode district SP7, with 282 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Shaftesbury?
- A typical £285,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 145 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Shaftesbury?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Shaftesbury Church of England Primary School and The Abbey CofE VA Primary School, Shaftesbury; secondary schools at its postcodes include Shaftesbury School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Shaftesbury have a railway station?
- The nearest is Gillingham (Dorset) station, 6.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Shaftesbury?
- Ofcom reports on 269 of the 282 postcodes in Shaftesbury. At 206 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Shaftesbury at risk of flooding?
- None of the 282 postcodes in Shaftesbury 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. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Shaftesbury?
- 17 of the 282 postcodes now in use in Shaftesbury came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 16 of the 200 homes sold in Shaftesbury were newly built (8%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SP7 district, 14%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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