Property market
The five-year median is £181,000 from 19 recorded sales in DT1 2FE. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Dorset is £325,410 in June 2026, up 1.6% year on year.
DT1 2FE
Dorchester West · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Dorchester
- Ward
- Dorchester West
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT1
- Postcode sector
- DT1 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT1 2FE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2010
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT1
- Postcode sector
- DT1 2
- Latitude
- 50.709953
- Longitude
- -2.442714
- British National Grid easting
- 368,837
- British National Grid northing
- 90,130
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Dorchester West · E05012698
- Parish or community
- E04003533
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00104087
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 032B · E01020527
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 032 · E02007007
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore DT1
Property
93 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Keats House, 11, Poets Way, Dorchester, DT1 2FE | 21 November 2025 | £190,000 |
| Keats House, 25, Poets Way, Dorchester, DT1 2FE | 24 October 2025 | £195,000 |
| Blake House, 4, Poets Way, Dorchester, DT1 2FE | 3 October 2025 | £195,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 4
- 457 m
Dorchester Middle School
Academy converter
- 756 m
Sunninghill Preparatory School
Other independent school
- 797 m
The Thomas Hardye School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,356
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 460
- Anti social behaviour 286
- Shoplifting 200
- Criminal damage and arson 97
- Other theft 81
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 146
- Postcode households
- 77
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- DT1 2 residents
- 10,977
72 female, 74 male
Age bands in DT1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 25%
1,666 residents
1,048 residents
2,096 residents
3,076 residents
2,630 residents
This postcode contained 1.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DT1 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 47.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 47.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 47.5%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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.
GP practices
5
within 5 km
QUEENS AVENUE SURGERY
14 QUEENS AVENUE, DORCHESTER, DT1 2EW
ODS code J81016
262 m
ATRIUM HEALTH CENTRE
7 WEYMOUTH AVENUE, DORCHESTER, DT1 1QR
ODS code J81068
326 m
POUNDBURY DOCTORS SURGERY
3 FREDERICK TREVES HOUSE, ST. JOHN WAY, DORCHESTER, DT1 2FD
ODS code J81082
1.1 km
PRINCE OF WALES SURGERY
2 FREDERICK TREVES HOUSE, ST. JOHN WAY, DORCHESTER, DT1 2FD
ODS code J81609
1.1 km
FORDINGTON SURGERY
91 HIGH STREET, FORDINGTON, DORCHESTER, DT1 1LD
ODS code J81626
1.1 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Dorchester West Rail Station
RLY · Dorchester
- 0.1 miles
Dorchester West Rail Station
RSE · Dorchester
- 0.1 miles
Market
BCT · Dorchester
- 0.1 miles
Market
BCT · Dorchester
- 0.1 miles
Dorchester West
BCT · Dorchester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 032B, 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
18,536 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 of 10
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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Possible
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 4 secondary schools. Dorchester Middle School is the nearest published school at 457 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,356 published events cover 12 months, averaging 113 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 460 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.