Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Forum Centre is the nearest published school at 386 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DT11 7AE
Blandford · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Blandford
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT11
- Postcode sector
- DT11 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT11 7AE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 October 2000
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT11
- Postcode sector
- DT11 7
- Latitude
- 50.856485
- Longitude
- -2.164305
- British National Grid easting
- 388,531
- British National Grid northing
- 106,344
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Blandford · E05012685
- Parish or community
- E04010488
- Westminster constituency
- North Dorset · E14001388
- Output area
- E00103572
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 011D · E01020438
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 011 · E02004261
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
- 10
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 386 m
The Forum Centre
Pupil referral unit
- 696 m
The Blandford School
Voluntary controlled school
- 796 m
Archbishop Wake Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 672
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 261
- Anti social behaviour 137
- Criminal damage and arson 60
- Shoplifting 56
- Other theft 37
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DT11 7 residents
- 10,679
Age bands in DT11 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.8%
1,774 residents
825 residents
2,510 residents
2,686 residents
2,565 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 straight-line
THE BLANDFORD GROUP PRACTICE
BLANDFORD GROUP PRACTICE, WHITECLIFF MILL STREET, BLANDFORD FORUM, DT11 7BH
ODS code J81019
283 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Market Place
BCT · Blandford
- 0.1 miles
Crown Hotel
BCT · Blandford
- 0.1 miles
Eagle House Surgery
BCT · Blandford
- 0.2 miles
The Ham
BCT · Blandford
- 0.3 miles
Fishers Close
BCT · Blandford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 011D, 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
12,296 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
672 published events cover 12 months, averaging 56 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 261 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.