BH21 5 postcode sector in the BH21 district

BH21 5 is a sector of the BH21 district: every postcode that starts BH21 5. It has 154 postcodes in use, one of them a large-user postcode. A large-user postcode is one Royal Mail gives to a single address that gets a lot of mail.

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Every postcode in the BH21 5 sector, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in the BH21 5 sector, by flood risk Of the 154 postcodes in the BH21 5 sector that ONS places, 13 have a home or business at high risk, 9 are at medium risk at worst, 6 are at low risk at worst and 126 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 5 postcodes at high or medium risk. 3 postcodes lie beyond the edge and are listed under the map. Places named: Verwood, Three Legged Cross. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2.5 km. A354 BH21 5AA: not on the flood risk listBH21 5AB: not on the flood risk listBH21 5AD: not on the flood risk listBH21 5AE: not on the flood risk listBH21 5AH: not on the flood risk listBH21 5AJ: not on the flood risk listBH21 5AL: not on the flood risk listBH21 5AN: not on the flood risk listBH21 5AP: not on the flood risk listBH21 5AR: not on the flood risk listBH21 5AS: not on the flood risk listBH21 5AU: not on the flood risk listBH21 5AZ: not on the flood risk listBH21 5BA: not on the flood risk listBH21 5BB: not on the flood risk listBH21 5BD: not on the flood risk listBH21 5BE: not on the flood risk listBH21 5BG: not on the flood risk listBH21 5BH: not on the flood risk listBH21 5BJ: not on the flood risk listBH21 5BL: not on the flood risk listBH21 5BN: not on the flood risk listBH21 5BP: not on the flood risk listBH21 5BQ: not on the flood risk listBH21 5BT: not on the flood risk listBH21 5BU: not on the flood risk listBH21 5BW: not on the flood risk listBH21 5BX: not on the flood risk listBH21 5BY: not on the flood risk listBH21 5DA: not on the flood risk listBH21 5DB: not on the flood risk listBH21 5DD: not on the flood risk listBH21 5DE: not on the flood risk listBH21 5DG: not on the flood risk listBH21 5DH: not on the flood risk listBH21 5DR: not on the flood risk listBH21 5DS: not on the flood risk listBH21 5DT: not on the flood risk listBH21 5DX: not on the flood risk listBH21 5DZ: not on the flood risk listBH21 5EA: not on the flood risk listBH21 5EB: not on the flood risk listBH21 5EP: not on the flood risk listBH21 5ER: not on the flood risk listBH21 5EU: not on the flood risk listBH21 5HA: not on the flood risk listBH21 5HB: not on the flood risk listBH21 5HE: not on the flood risk listBH21 5HG: not on the flood risk listBH21 5HH: not on the flood risk listBH21 5HT: not on the flood risk listBH21 5HW: not on the flood risk listBH21 5HX: not on the flood risk listBH21 5JA: not on the flood risk listBH21 5JD: not on the flood risk listBH21 5JF: not on the flood risk listBH21 5JU: not on the flood risk listBH21 5JZ: not on the flood risk listBH21 5LB: not on the flood risk listBH21 5LD: not on the flood risk listBH21 5LE: not on the flood risk listBH21 5LF: not on the flood risk listBH21 5LT: not on the flood risk listBH21 5LU: not on the flood risk listBH21 5LX: not on the flood risk listBH21 5LY: not on the flood risk listBH21 5NB: not on the flood risk listBH21 5ND: not on the flood risk listBH21 5NE: not on the flood risk listBH21 5NJ: not on the flood risk listBH21 5NQ: not on the flood risk listBH21 5NR: not on the flood risk listBH21 5NS: not on the flood risk listBH21 5NW: not on the flood risk listBH21 5NX: not on the flood risk listBH21 5NY: not on the flood risk listBH21 5NZ: not on the flood risk listBH21 5PL: not on the flood risk listBH21 5PN: not on the flood risk listBH21 5PW: not on the flood risk listBH21 5PX: not on the flood risk listBH21 5PY: not on the flood risk listBH21 5PZ: not on the flood risk listBH21 5QG: not on the flood risk listBH21 5QH: not on the flood risk listBH21 5QJ: not on the flood risk listBH21 5QL: not on the flood risk listBH21 5QN: not on the flood risk listBH21 5QP: not on the flood risk listBH21 5QR: not on the flood risk listBH21 5QS: not on the flood risk listBH21 5QT: not on the flood risk listBH21 5QU: not on the flood risk listBH21 5QW: not on the flood risk listBH21 5QX: not on the flood risk listBH21 5QY: not on the flood risk listBH21 5RD: not on the flood risk listBH21 5RF: not on the flood risk listBH21 5RG: not on the flood risk listBH21 5RH: not on the flood risk listBH21 5RJ: not on the flood risk listBH21 5RL: not on the flood risk listBH21 5RN: not on the flood risk listBH21 5RP: not on the flood risk listBH21 5RQ: not on the flood risk listBH21 5RR: not on the flood risk listBH21 5RS: not on the flood risk listBH21 5RT: not on the flood risk listBH21 5RU: not on the flood risk listBH21 5RW: not on the flood risk listBH21 5RX: not on the flood risk listBH21 5AG: low flood risk at worstBH21 5NH: low flood risk at worstBH21 5NP: low flood risk at worstBH21 5QA: low flood risk at worstBH21 5QB: low flood risk at worstBH21 5AY: medium flood risk at worstBH21 5DU: medium flood risk at worstBH21 5HZ: medium flood risk at worstBH21 5NL: medium flood risk at worstBH21 5PP: medium flood risk at worstBH21 5PR: medium flood risk at worstBH21 5PT: medium flood risk at worstBH21 5PU: medium flood risk at worstBH21 5AF: high flood riskBH21 5DY: high flood riskBH21 5ES: high flood riskBH21 5ET: high flood riskBH21 5HD: high flood riskBH21 5HQ: high flood riskBH21 5HY: high flood riskBH21 5JE: high flood riskBH21 5JG: high flood riskBH21 5LZ: high flood riskBH21 5NA: high flood riskBH21 5NF: high flood riskBH21 5RE: high flood risk VerwoodThree Legged Cross 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to BH21 5PT, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk5 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in the BH21 5 sector, by flood risk Of the 154 postcodes in the BH21 5 sector that ONS places, 13 have a home or business at high risk, 9 are at medium risk at worst, 6 are at low risk at worst and 126 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 5 postcodes at high or medium risk. 3 postcodes lie beyond the edge and are listed under the map. Places named: Verwood, Three Legged Cross. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2.5 km. A354 VerwoodThree Legged Cross
  • A home or business at high risk: 13
  • At medium risk at worst: 9
  • At low risk at worst: 6
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 126
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 154 postcodes in the BH21 5 sector that ONS places, 13 have a home or business at high risk, 9 are at medium risk at worst, 6 are at low risk at worst and 126 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 540 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.

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

The postcodes at high risk

13 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

3 further out, not drawn

These postcodes lie well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without them to show the rest closer; they are in every count.

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

What do homes sell for in BH21 5?

Homes in BH21 5 sold for a typical £477,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 8 sales, down 21.1% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£477,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£605,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 21.1% on the 12 months before
  • Detached 3 sales, too few to price
  • Semi-detached 4 sales, too few to price
  • Terraced 1 sale, too few to price

Standard sales of homes at market value at the postcodes that start BH21 5. A typical price is the median, the middle sale, given from 5 sales or more.

How we work this out: house prices by postcode

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

Postcodes in BH21 5

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Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Postcodes that have ended are not listed. See all our data sources

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