West Purbeck · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
St Mary & St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Wool Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Harbour School Dorset
Free schools special
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
1,103 residents
792 residents
1,452 residents
1,469 residents
1,173 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
1
within 5 km straight-line
MEADOW LANE, WOOL, WAREHAM, BH20 6DR
ODS code J81025
254 m
Ship Inn
BCT · Wool
Wool Station
BCT · Wool
Wool Rail Station
RSE · Wool
Wool Rail Station
RLY · Wool
Wool Bridge
BCT · Wool
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 035D, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,592 of 33,755
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. St Mary & St Joseph's Catholic Primary School is the nearest published school at 180 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
172 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 69 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.