Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Yewstock School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DT10 1GR
Beacon · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Beacon
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT10
- Postcode sector
- DT10 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT10 1GR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT10
- Postcode sector
- DT10 1
- Latitude
- 50.938354
- Longitude
- -2.266139
- British National Grid easting
- 381,396
- British National Grid northing
- 115,469
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Beacon · E05012682
- Parish or community
- E04003423
- Westminster constituency
- North Dorset · E14001388
- Output area
- E00103696
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 005E · E01034376
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 005 · E02004258
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 DT10
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.5 km
Yewstock School
Community special school
- 2.7 km
Sturminster Newton High School
Academy converter
- 3.3 km
William Barnes Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Other theft 1
- Vehicle crime 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DT10 1 residents
- 6,192
Age bands in DT10 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.1%
811 residents
492 residents
1,168 residents
1,724 residents
1,986 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.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
1
within 5 km
BLACKMORE VALE PARTNERSHIP
OLD MARKET HILL, STURMINSTER NEWTON, DT10 1QU
ODS code J81620
2.9 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Hillside
BCT · Manston
- 0.1 miles
Little Orchard
BCT · Manston
- 0.1 miles
Little Orchard
BCT · Manston
- 0.1 miles
Telephone Kiosk
BCT · Manston
- 0.1 miles
Telephone Kiosk
BCT · Manston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 005E, 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
11,525 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.