Town in Dorset
Dorchester
From July 2023 to June 2026, homes in Dorchester typically sold for £345,000. Half of the 2,332 sales were between £260k and £482k, against a typical £345,000 across Dorset.
Postcodes DT1, DT2
By type of home
What homes sold for
The band is the middle half of sales, a quarter sold for less and a quarter for more, with the typical price marked. The dashed line is the typical price for the same type across Dorset.
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Detached £500,000 typicalHalf between £400k and £640k · 714 sales · Dorset £482k
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Semi-detached £348,000 typicalHalf between £300k and £425k · 478 sales · Dorset £328k
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Terraced £300,050 typicalHalf between £257k and £388k · 668 sales · Dorset £275k
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Flat £193,666 typicalHalf between £150k and £275k · 472 sales · Dorset £187k
Since 1995
Each year in Dorchester
The typical price is the middle sale of each full year, shown where at least 5 homes sold. It moves with which homes happened to sell, so a single year can jump.
The homes that sell here
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Detached31% · Dorset 39%
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Terraced29% · Dorset 24%
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Semi-detached21% · Dorset 21%
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Flat20% · Dorset 15%
New builds and leaseholds
New builds can take up to a year to appear in Land Registry's figures, so the latest year may show fewer than were sold.
Neighbourhoods
Where in Dorchester
The 5 neighbourhoods mostly in Dorchester and what homes sold for in each from July 2023 to June 2026. The range is the middle half of sales.
| Neighbourhood | Typical price Typical priceThe middle sale. Half sold for more and half for less. | Middle half Middle halfHalf the homes sold within this range. A quarter sold for less and a quarter for more. | Sales SalesHomes sold from July 2023 to June 2026. | Over 5 years Over 5 yearsThe change in the typical price against the same three years five years before. |
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| Charlton Down, Cerne Abbas & Puddletown | £385,000 | £290k to £529k | 553 | +12.2% |
| Dorchester East | £324,500 | £258k to £425k | 400 | +18.0% |
| Dorchester North | £281,250 | £185k to £410k | 428 | +0.4% |
| Owermoigne, Broadmayne & Winterbourne | £352,500 | £279k to £430k | 357 | +19.5% |
| Poundbury & Dorchester West | £359,000 | £254k to £512k | 402 | +14.0% |
About these figures
Every standard home sale registered with HM Land Registry since 1995: homes sold at full market value to a person, so repossessions and sales to companies are left out. Recent months fill in as late sales are registered. Not financial advice.
Sources and licences
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Neighbourhood names: contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 (House of Commons Library). Neighbourhood boundaries and the postcode lookup: source, Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026.