Overcombe Drive Weymouth, Dorset

67 addresses across 3 postcodes (DT3), about 610 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 44000409.

  • Sales: 86 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £473,750 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Dorset cost £328,589 in August 2026 (-0.4% on a year); private rents averaged £1,059 a month.
  • Energy: 33 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 5, D: 17, E: 9, F: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coastal erosion: The nearest projected coastal erosion zone is 40 m from its postcodes.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Dorset costs £2,765 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 85% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Upwey, about 2.8 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Lodmoor Country Park, is about 300 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 21 to 42 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 67 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Weymouth Bay Medical Practice, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 760 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 92% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 7 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20262£473,750£420,000£527,500
20254£552,500£475,000£587,500
20241£696,750£696,750£696,750
20234£570,000£480,000£690,000
20221£640,000£640,000£640,000
20211£600,250£600,250£600,250
20203£475,000£463,000£480,000
20191£430,000£430,000£430,000
20183£370,000£367,000£430,000
20173£341,000£180,500£475,000
20161£430,000£430,000£430,000
20136£326,000£280,000£347,500
All 86 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Dec 20011 DT3 6QEDetached£164,000
16 Feb 20241A DT3 6QEDetached£696,750
31 Mar 20211A DT3 6QEDetached£600,250
12 Feb 20201A DT3 6QEDetached£480,000
17 Jul 20031A DT3 6QEDetached£355,000
26 Jul 19951A DT3 6QEDetached£106,000
2 Oct 20093 DT3 6QEDetached£250,000
18 Jul 20013 DT3 6QEDetached£159,950
11 Dec 19954 DT3 6QEDetached£78,000
26 Jul 20185 DT3 6QEDetached£430,000
20 Oct 20237 DT3 6QEDetached£500,000
24 Sep 20139 DT3 6QEDetached£280,000
28 Sep 201710 DT3 6QEDetached£180,500
8 Jan 201311 DT3 6QEDetached£335,000
3 Sep 200411 DT3 6QEDetached£276,000
30 Jul 199911 DT3 6QEDetached£162,500
16 Dec 201312 DT3 6QEDetached£347,500
24 Mar 200612 DT3 6QEDetached£311,000
28 Feb 199712 DT3 6QEDetached£92,750
29 May 200313 DT3 6QEDetached£233,000
8 Aug 199713 DT3 6QEDetached£95,000
11 Jul 201114 DT3 6QEDetached£360,000
9 Aug 200114 DT3 6QEDetached£189,950
10 Jun 200515 DT3 6QEDetached£270,000
29 Jun 200115 DT3 6QEDetached£150,000
16 Mar 202316 DT3 6QEDetached£690,000
20 Jul 201116 DT3 6QEDetached£450,000
7 Apr 200616 DT3 6QEDetached£287,500
29 Aug 201717 DT3 6QEDetached£475,000
24 Nov 200917 DT3 6QEDetached£259,950
17 Oct 200318 DT3 6QEDetached£239,450
2 Jul 202619 DT3 6QFDetached£420,000
5 Mar 201019 DT3 6QFDetached£230,000
28 Mar 202520 DT3 6QEDetached£587,500
15 Jan 200920 DT3 6QEDetached£340,000
7 Sep 199820 DT3 6QEDetached£138,000
22 May 201821 DT3 6QFDetached£367,000
10 Jan 202522 DT3 6QEDetached£565,000
27 Nov 201922 DT3 6QEDetached£430,000
14 Sep 201123 DT3 6QFDetached£270,000
23 Oct 200923 DT3 6QFDetached£250,000
14 May 200823 DT3 6QFDetached£250,000
12 Aug 201624 DT3 6QEDetached£430,000
18 Nov 201124 DT3 6QEDetached£310,000
5 Nov 200925 DT3 6QFDetached£248,000
17 Jan 202526 DT3 6QEDetached£540,000
17 Nov 200526 DT3 6QEDetached£420,000
19 Aug 199926 DT3 6QEDetached£162,000
27 Jul 202332 DT3 6QFDetached£640,000
30 Nov 201832 DT3 6QFDetached£370,000
9 Aug 201332 DT3 6QFDetached£300,000
28 Apr 202234 DT3 6QFDetached£640,000
2 Dec 201134 DT3 6QFDetached£310,000
25 Aug 200434 DT3 6QFDetached£282,500
12 Sep 199634 DT3 6QFDetached£79,000
4 Sep 200935 DT3 6QFDetached£270,000
3 Jul 202636 DT3 6QFDetached£527,500
22 Jun 201040 DT3 6QFDetached£300,000
31 Aug 200640 DT3 6QFDetached£327,000
10 Dec 202042 DT3 6QFDetached£475,000
27 May 201142 DT3 6QFDetached£312,000
10 Mar 202345 DT3 6QFDetached£480,000
8 Dec 199545 DT3 6QFDetached£84,500
10 Sep 201347 DT3 6QFDetached£332,000
31 Jul 200947 DT3 6QFDetached£308,000
1 Mar 201748 DT3 6QFDetached£341,000
24 Jun 200449 DT3 6QFDetached£300,000
27 Aug 199949 DT3 6QFDetached£145,000
19 Aug 199849 DT3 6QFDetached£128,500
12 Jun 200950 DT3 6QFDetached£280,000
20 Apr 199550 DT3 6QFDetached£87,500
1 Apr 201051 DT3 6QFDetached£297,500
13 Dec 200251 DT3 6QFDetached£245,000
23 Mar 200452 DT3 6QFDetached£277,000
15 Oct 199852 DT3 6QFDetached£126,000
9 Nov 200053 DT3 6QFDetached£158,000
30 Apr 199953 DT3 6QFDetached£107,000
18 Jun 202056 DT3 6QFDetached£463,000
16 Jan 200956 DT3 6QFDetached£280,000
8 Feb 200756 DT3 6QFDetached£330,000
4 Dec 199756 DT3 6QFDetached£123,000
27 Nov 199859 DT3 6QFDetached£101,500
29 Aug 202560 DT3 6QFDetached£475,000
15 Oct 200160 DT3 6QFDetached£183,000
20 Mar 200861 DT3 6QFDetached£335,000
10 Jul 201362 DT3 6QFDetached£320,000

House prices and rents in Dorset

A typical home in Dorset cost £328,589 in August 2026, 0.4% less than a year before. That is 9% more than five years earlier and 28% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£519,998
Semi-detached£333,127
Terraced£267,978
Flat or maisonette£169,474
Bought by a first-time buyer£257,241

Private renters in Dorset paid £1,059 a month on average in September 2026, 4.2% more than a year before. That is 26% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£733
Two bedrooms£969
Three bedrooms£1,194
Four or more bedrooms£1,688

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

33 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 127 m². Most common: House, detached (30); Bungalow, detached (2); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (16); 1976-1982 (8); 1950-1966 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (22); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (33 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 15,271 kWh of it on average in 2024, 64% more than the district's 9,334 kWh, and 3,238 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
DT3 6QF382,607 kWh 3914,929 kWh
DT3 6QE252,255 kWh 2511,513 kWh
DT3 6PN182,648 kWh 2115,431 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is DT3.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Dorset in 2026-27: Band D £2,765 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,843£2,151£2,458£2,765£3,379£3,994£4,608£5,530

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (41% of about 1,750 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Land at Bowleaze Coveway.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 4 November 2026 to 6 November 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the verge (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
DT3 6QFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
DT3 6QEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
DT3 6PNnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

The nearest projected erosion zone is 40 m from the street's postcodes (by 2105, if defences are not maintained or built).

ProjectionPolicy for the frontageErosionDistance
By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Durlston Head to Rame Head none (the line is held)100 m
By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried outManaged realignment Durlston Head to Rame Head none (the line is held)100 m
By 2105, if defences are not maintained or builtNo intervention Durlston Head to Rame Head up to 60 m40 m
Ground instability zone Bowleaze Cove, DorsetUnstable cliffs or slopes where the ground has moved, with a margin for movement over the next 100 years100 m

Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 67 addresses are between 21 m and 42 m above sea level (33 m on average); the ground rises about 21 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
DT3 6PN100%100%100%0%
DT3 6QE100%100%100%0%
DT3 6QF100%85%85%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsUpwey 54,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.8 miles)
Weymouth 751,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Dorchester South 466,000 journeys in 2024–258.1 km (5 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Melstock Avenue Overcombe260 m
Bus or coach stationTop O Town Coach Park Dorchester8.8 km (5.5 miles)
Ferry terminalWeymouth Ferry Terminal3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Car parksWeymouth, Jubilee Close Car Park2.8 km (1.8 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH44.7 km (28 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS85.3 km (53 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesWeymouth Bay Medical Practice Outstanding Feb 20232.7 km (1.7 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy790 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Surgery2.1 km (1.3 miles)
HospitalWeymouth Community Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bosworth Care Home Good Sep 2026740 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationDorset Police4.1 km (2.6 miles)
Cash machinesWessex Retail Ltd - Preston Road, Preston Cashzone1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lodmoor Country Park 106 ha300 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,190 m²320 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.1 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,560 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 106 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Romano-Celtic temple and associated remains at Jordan Hill, a scheduled monument, 250 m east. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Romano-Celtic temple and associated remains at Jordan HillScheduled monument250 m east
Preston Roman villaScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Multi-period archaeological landscape centred on and including a slight univallate hillfort called Chalbury, two bowl barrows, part of a Bronze Age urnfield and a series of medieval strip fieldsScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Jordan HillHill310 m north-east
Furzy CliffCliff or slope330 m south-east
Bowleaze CoveTidal water730 m (0.5 miles) east
Horse Lynch PlantationWood1.4 km (0.8 miles) west
BroadrockWetland1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Radipole LakeLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)4.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.2205
Particles (PM10)7.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 556667

1 of the street's 67 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Dorset: see them on the Dorset page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
St Andrew's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 47% in 2024 and 16% in 2023)
Bincombe Valley Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 44% in 2023)
St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 43% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 30% in 2024 and 47% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

1 nursery, pre-school or club within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 900 m (0.6 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Preston Pre-School Ltd DT3 6BH Full day care 30 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 900 m (0.6 miles)

Ofsted also registers 115 childminders and 23 home childcarers (nannies) in Dorset. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Cafe Oasis DT3 6PNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good13 May 2025
Harvester Spyglass Inn DT3 6PNPub/bar/nightclub190 m5 Very good8 Jul 2025
LOOKOUT CAFE DT3 6PLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good1 Jul 2026
Food Thoughts DT3 6RYOther catering premises340 mExempt
Joys Convenience Store & Overcombe Post Office DT3 6PURetailers - other390 mExempt

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

7 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour3
Other theft2
Vehicle crime1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Melstock Avenue (2); On or near Preston Road (2); On or near Ringstead Crescent (2); On or near Overcombe Drive (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. 2 involved a motorcyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202210
202300
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
23 Apr 2022 17:23 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
3 Jun 2021 08:13 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 759 residents in 416 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age6940
Children under 153%17%
Aged 65 and over61%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)92%61%
Owned outright78%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work29%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)64%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)43%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away32%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 9 to 10 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility asset works, 4 November 2026 to 6 November 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • DT3 6QF: 41 addresses
  • DT3 6QE: 25 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • DT3 6PN: 1 address of 35 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Ringstead Crescent · Bowleaze Coveway · Sunningdale Rise · Melstock Avenue · Heron Close · Elm Close · Oakbury Drive · Furzy Close · Eadon Close · Kingsbere Road

All the streets in DT3 and across Dorset.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.