Cranborne & Alderholt · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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St James Church of England First School
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Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
1,889 residents
1,011 residents
2,323 residents
2,742 residents
2,627 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.
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within 5 km straight-line
15 STATION ROAD, VERWOOD, BH31 7PY
ODS code J81030
4.6 km
Welchnut Cottages
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Crumble Cottage
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Hell Corner
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English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 007C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,394 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.
6 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. St James Church of England First School is the nearest published school at 2.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
16 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 11 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.