Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Forum School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DT11 0FP
Blackmore Vale · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Blackmore Vale
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT11
- Postcode sector
- DT11 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT11 0FP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT11
- Postcode sector
- DT11 0
- Latitude
- 50.899004
- Longitude
- -2.273438
- British National Grid easting
- 380,867
- British National Grid northing
- 111,095
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Blackmore Vale · E05012684
- Parish or community
- E04003431
- Westminster constituency
- North Dorset · E14001388
- Output area
- E00103590
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 014D · E01020441
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 014 · E02004262
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 DT11
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.4 km
The Forum School
Other independent special school
- 2.2 km
Shillingstone Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.6 km
St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, Child Okeford
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 58
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 32
- Anti social behaviour 8
- Vehicle crime 6
- Burglary 5
- Shoplifting 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DT11 0 residents
- 7,295
Age bands in DT11 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 15%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.9%
1,042 residents
1,103 residents
1,214 residents
2,170 residents
1,838 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
1
within 5 km
BLACKMORE VALE PARTNERSHIP
OLD MARKET HILL, STURMINSTER NEWTON, DT10 1QU
ODS code J81620
3.9 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
- 0.1 miles
The Royal Oak
BCT · Okeford Fitzpaine
- 0.1 miles
The Royal Oak
BCT · Okeford Fitzpaine
- 0.2 miles
Post Office
BCT · Okeford Fitzpaine
- 0.2 miles
Post Office
BCT · Okeford Fitzpaine
- 0.2 miles
Post Office
BCT · Okeford Fitzpaine
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 014D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,493 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
58 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 32 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.