ME5 8 postcode sector in the ME5 district
ME5 8 is a sector of the ME5 district: every postcode that starts ME5 8. It has 290 postcodes in use, 2 of them large-user postcodes. 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 ME5 8 sector, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 16
- Some can get gigabit: 26
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 242
- Ofcom gives no figure: 6
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together
Of the 290 postcodes in the ME5 8 sector that ONS places, 16 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 26 have some that can, 242 can all get it and 6 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 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. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.
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
16 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.
Further out, not drawn
This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.
Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together
- 5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. ME5 8TH, is the one nearest the middle of them.
What do homes sell for in ME5 8?
Homes in ME5 8 sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 189 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £305,000 from 212 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £426,000 35 sales
- Semi-detached £330,000 63 sales
- Terraced £282,500 82 sales
- Flat or maisonette £180,000 9 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Standard sales of homes at market value at the postcodes that start ME5 8. A typical price is the median, the middle sale, given from 5 sales or more.
How we work this out: house prices by postcodeSource: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Postcodes in ME5 8
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Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Postcodes that have ended are not listed.
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Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- 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.
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.
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