Dorchester East · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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Sunninghill Preparatory School
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St Mary's Catholic First School, Dorchester
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St Osmund's Church of England Middle School
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Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
854 residents
602 residents
1,527 residents
1,705 residents
2,080 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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within 5 km
7 WEYMOUTH AVENUE, DORCHESTER, DT1 1QR
ODS code J81068
157 m
14 QUEENS AVENUE, DORCHESTER, DT1 2EW
ODS code J81016
614 m
91 HIGH STREET, FORDINGTON, DORCHESTER, DT1 1LD
ODS code J81626
691 m
3 FREDERICK TREVES HOUSE, ST. JOHN WAY, DORCHESTER, DT1 2FD
ODS code J81082
1.5 km
2 FREDERICK TREVES HOUSE, ST. JOHN WAY, DORCHESTER, DT1 2FD
ODS code J81609
1.5 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Dorchester South Rail Station
RLY · Dorchester
Dorchester South Rail Station
RSE · Dorchester
South Station
BCT · Dorchester
Brewery Square
BCT · Dorchester
Brewery Square
BCT · Dorchester
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 031C, 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
12,910 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.
12 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 4 secondary schools. Sunninghill Preparatory School is the nearest published school at 334 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
1,282 published events cover 12 months, averaging 106.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 433 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.