DT2 8XT

Crossways · Dorset · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Post town: Dorchester
Ward: Crossways
Local authority: Dorset
Constituency: South Dorset
Postcode district: DT2
Postcode sector: DT2 8

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
DT2 8XR	65 m
DT2 8UU	76 m
DT2 8XS	86 m
DT2 8WS	111 m
DT2 8XU	111 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: DT2 8XT
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1995
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: DT
Postcode district: DT2
Postcode sector: DT2 8
Latitude: 50.698705
Longitude: -2.334061
British National Grid easting: 376,503
British National Grid northing: 88,839

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: South West · E12000009
Local authority district: Dorset · E06000059
Electoral ward: Crossways · E05012695
Parish or community: E04003531
Westminster constituency: South Dorset · E14001485
Output area: E00104152
Lower layer super output area: Dorset 036C · E01020538
Middle layer super output area: Dorset 036 · E02004279

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

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Property

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28 recorded sales at this postcode

Address	Date	Price
16, Woodbury Drove, Crossways, Dorchester, DT2 8XT	13 June 2025	£281,500
18, Woodbury Drove, Crossways, Dorchester, DT2 8XT	5 August 2016	£193,000
9, Woodbury Drove, Crossways, Dorchester, DT2 8XT	18 December 2015	£230,000

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 3
Primary: 2
Secondary: 0

Frome Valley CofE First School

Academy converter
169 m
Broadmayne First School

Community school
3.6 km
Employ My Ability (EMA) Ltd

Special post 16 institution
4.1 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 110
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 55
Anti social behaviour 17
Other theft 11
Criminal damage and arson 9
Burglary 4

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 36
Postcode households: 15
Residents per household: 2.4
DT2 8 residents: 8,366

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%

This postcode contained 0.4% 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.

Nearby transport

Egdon Heath

BCT · Higher Woodsford
0.1 miles
Egdon Heath

BCT · Higher Woodsford
0.1 miles
Lington Close

BCT · Crossways
0.2 miles
Lington Close

BCT · Crossways
0.2 miles
Post Office

BCT · Crossways
0.4 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 036C, 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

6 of 10

Overall England rank

17,376 of 33,755

Income: 6 of 10
Employment: 6 of 10
Education and skills: 5 of 10
Health and disability: 7 of 10
Crime: 8 of 10
Housing and services: 1 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.

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

Property market

The five-year median is £281,500 from 1 recorded sale in DT2 8XT. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.

The latest UK House Price Index average for Dorset is £325,410 in June 2026, up 1.6% year on year.

Schools

3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Frome Valley CofE First School is the nearest published school at 169 m.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

110 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 55 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.