Property market
The five-year median is £345,250 from 1 recorded sale in DT2 9RN. 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.
DT2 9RN
Charminster St Mary's · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Dorchester
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT2
- Postcode sector
- DT2 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT2 9RN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT2
- Postcode sector
- DT2 9
- Latitude
- 50.741515
- Longitude
- -2.459537
- British National Grid easting
- 367,671
- British National Grid northing
- 93,647
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
- E04003519
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00103991
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 022B · E01020510
- 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
Property
21 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 39, North Street, Charminster, Dorchester, DT2 9RN | 12 December 2024 | £345,250 |
| 42, North Street, Charminster, Dorchester, DT2 9RN | 15 April 2021 | £300,000 |
| 38, North Street, Charminster, Dorchester, DT2 9RN | 15 September 2020 | £355,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 4
- 982 m
St Mary's Church of England First School, Charminster
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- 2.9 km
Damers First School
Academy converter
- 3.7 km
The Thomas Hardye School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 81
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 43
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Criminal damage and arson 8
- Vehicle crime 6
- Shoplifting 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 64
- Postcode households
- 26
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- DT2 9 residents
- 8,082
36 female, 28 male
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%
1,187 residents
685 residents
1,432 residents
2,424 residents
2,367 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 34.6%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 34.6%
- Gigabit-capable
- 34.6%
- 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
5
within 5 km
POUNDBURY DOCTORS SURGERY
3 FREDERICK TREVES HOUSE, ST. JOHN WAY, DORCHESTER, DT1 2FD
ODS code J81082
3.1 km
PRINCE OF WALES SURGERY
2 FREDERICK TREVES HOUSE, ST. JOHN WAY, DORCHESTER, DT1 2FD
ODS code J81609
3.1 km
ATRIUM HEALTH CENTRE
7 WEYMOUTH AVENUE, DORCHESTER, DT1 1QR
ODS code J81068
3.7 km
FORDINGTON SURGERY
91 HIGH STREET, FORDINGTON, DORCHESTER, DT1 1LD
ODS code J81626
3.9 km
QUEENS AVENUE SURGERY
14 QUEENS AVENUE, DORCHESTER, DT1 2EW
ODS code J81016
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
Higher Charminster
BCT · Charminster
- 0.1 miles
Higher Charminster
BCT · Charminster
- 0.6 miles
The Cross
BCT · Charminster
- 0.6 miles
The Cross
BCT · Charminster
- 0.6 miles
Weir View
BCT · Charminster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 022B, 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
17,891 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
10 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 4 secondary schools. St Mary's Church of England First School, Charminster is the nearest published school at 982 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
81 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 43 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.