DT2 9ET

Charminster St Mary's · Dorset · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Charminster St Mary's
Local authority: Dorset
Constituency: West Dorset
Postcode district: DT2
Postcode sector: DT2 9

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
DT2 9DZ	1.2 km
DT2 9DY	2.0 km
DT2 9NJ	2.0 km
DT2 9LT	2.1 km
DT2 9LX	2.1 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: DT2 9ET
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: DT
Postcode district: DT2
Postcode sector: DT2 9
Latitude: 50.732756
Longitude: -2.546949
British National Grid easting: 361,496
British National Grid northing: 92,715

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: South West · E12000009
Local authority district: Dorset · E06000059
Electoral ward: Charminster St Mary's · E05012688
Parish or community: E04003538
Westminster constituency: West Dorset · E14001575
Output area: E00104100
Lower layer super output area: Dorset 022C · E01020529
Middle layer super output area: Dorset 022 · E02004272

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

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 1
Primary: 1
Secondary: 0

Winterbourne Valley Church of England Aided First School

Voluntary aided school
2.3 km

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 8
Postcode households: 4
Residents per household: 2.0
DT2 9 residents: 8,082

Age bands in DT2 9

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 14.7%
Age 15 to 24: 8.5%
Age 25 to 44: 17.7%
Age 45 to 64: 29.9%
Age 65 and over: 29.2%

This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DT2 9 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+: 87.5%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 87.5%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 87.5%
Gigabit-capable: 87.5%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 0%
Next Generation Access: 100%
Decent broadband available from fixed wireless: 75%

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

Coach and Horses

BCT · Winterbourne Abbas
1.3 miles
Coach and Horses

BCT · Winterbourne Abbas
1.3 miles
St Mary's Church

BCT · Winterbourne Abbas
1.4 miles
St Mary's Church

BCT · Winterbourne Abbas
1.4 miles
Winterbourne Valley School

BCT · Winterbourne Abbas
1.4 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 022C, 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

15,846 of 33,755

Income: 8 of 10
Employment: 8 of 10
Education and skills: 7 of 10
Health and disability: 9 of 10
Crime: 9 of 10
Housing and services: 1 of 10
Living environment: 2 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: Possible

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

Schools

1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Winterbourne Valley Church of England Aided First School is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.

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