Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Employ My Ability (EMA) Ltd is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DT2 8RH
West Purbeck · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Dorchester
- Ward
- West Purbeck
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT2
- Postcode sector
- DT2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT2 8RH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT2
- Postcode sector
- DT2 8
- Latitude
- 50.701673
- Longitude
- -2.275558
- British National Grid easting
- 380,636
- British National Grid northing
- 89,152
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- West Purbeck · E05012728
- Parish or community
- E04003480
- Westminster constituency
- South Dorset · E14001485
- Output area
- E00103880
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 035B · E01020490
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 035 · E02004266
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 DT2
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Paddock House, Moreton, Dorchester, DT2 8RH | 13 November 2002 | £350,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 0 m
Employ My Ability (EMA) Ltd
Special post 16 institution
- 2.2 km
Bovington Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 3.6 km
Harbour School Dorset
Free schools special
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Vehicle crime 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- DT2 8 residents
- 8,366
6 female, 6 male
Age bands in DT2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.6%
1,186 residents
723 residents
1,521 residents
2,525 residents
2,381 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DT2 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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 straight-line
THE WELLBRIDGE PRACTICE
MEADOW LANE, WOOL, WAREHAM, BH20 6DR
ODS code J81025
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 1.4 miles
Swinton Avenue Terminus
BCT · Bovington Camp
- 1.4 miles
Babcock Parking (Temp)
BCT · Bovington Camp
- 1.4 miles
Bovington First School
BCT · Bovington Camp
- 1.4 miles
Tank Museum
BCT · Bovington Camp
- 1.4 miles
Tank Museum
BCT · Bovington Camp
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 035B, 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
13,973 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
6 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.