Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 4 secondary schools. Damers First School is the nearest published school at 420 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DT1 2RS
Dorchester Poundbury · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dorchester Poundbury
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT1
- Postcode sector
- DT1 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT1 2RS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1997
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT1
- Postcode sector
- DT1 2
- Latitude
- 50.712119
- Longitude
- -2.461444
- British National Grid easting
- 367,516
- British National Grid northing
- 90,379
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Dorchester Poundbury · E05012697
- Parish or community
- E04003533
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00166084
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 032C · E01020528
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 4
- 420 m
Damers First School
Academy converter
- 686 m
The Thomas Hardye School
Academy converter
- 975 m
The Prince of Wales School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 804
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 295
- Anti social behaviour 187
- Shoplifting 72
- Criminal damage and arson 60
- Other theft 45
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DT1 2 residents
- 10,977
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
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.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
POUNDBURY DOCTORS SURGERY
3 FREDERICK TREVES HOUSE, ST. JOHN WAY, DORCHESTER, DT1 2FD
ODS code J81082
311 m
PRINCE OF WALES SURGERY
2 FREDERICK TREVES HOUSE, ST. JOHN WAY, DORCHESTER, DT1 2FD
ODS code J81609
311 m
QUEENS AVENUE SURGERY
14 QUEENS AVENUE, DORCHESTER, DT1 2EW
ODS code J81016
1.3 km
ATRIUM HEALTH CENTRE
7 WEYMOUTH AVENUE, DORCHESTER, DT1 1QR
ODS code J81068
1.6 km
FORDINGTON SURGERY
91 HIGH STREET, FORDINGTON, DORCHESTER, DT1 1LD
ODS code J81626
2.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Billingsmoor Lane
BCT · Poundbury
- 0.1 miles
Mansell Square
BCT · Poundbury
- 0.1 miles
Peverill Avenue East
BCT · Poundbury
- 0.1 miles
Peverill Avenue East
BCT · Poundbury
- 0.1 miles
Mansell Square
BCT · Poundbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 032C, 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
17,390 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 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
- 10 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
804 published events cover 12 months, averaging 67 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 295 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.