Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Yewstock School is the nearest published school at 392 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DT10 9BD
Sturminster Newton · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sturminster Newton
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT10
- Postcode sector
- DT10 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT10 9BD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 November 2009
- Terminated
- 1 December 2012
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT10
- Postcode sector
- DT10 9
- Latitude
- 50.929456
- Longitude
- -2.301235
- British National Grid easting
- 378,926
- British National Grid northing
- 114,489
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Sturminster Newton · E05012721
- Parish or community
- E04003443
- Westminster constituency
- North Dorset · E14001388
- Output area
- E00171760
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 005F · E01034377
- 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
- 6
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 392 m
Yewstock School
Community special school
- 572 m
Sturminster Newton High School
Academy converter
- 740 m
William Barnes Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 243
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 122
- Anti social behaviour 55
- Criminal damage and arson 13
- Other theft 12
- Shoplifting 10
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
BLACKMORE VALE PARTNERSHIP
OLD MARKET HILL, STURMINSTER NEWTON, DT10 1QU
ODS code J81620
233 m
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
Nordcat Depot
BCT · Rixon
- 0.1 miles
Friars Moor
BCT · Rixon
- 0.1 miles
Friars Moor
BCT · Rixon
- 0.2 miles
Hanover Close
BCT · Sturminster Newton
- 0.2 miles
Hanover Close
BCT · Sturminster Newton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 005F, 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
11,360 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
243 published events cover 12 months, averaging 20.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 122 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.