Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 4 secondary schools. Dorchester Middle School is the nearest published school at 841 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DT2 9XQ
Dorchester West · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dorchester West
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT2
- Postcode sector
- DT2 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT2 9XQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 2004
- Terminated
- 1 November 2005
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT2
- Postcode sector
- DT2 9
- Latitude
- 50.715181
- Longitude
- -2.444080
- British National Grid easting
- 368,744
- British National Grid northing
- 90,712
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Dorchester West · E05012698
- Parish or community
- E04003533
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00104064
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 031A · E01032643
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 031 · E02007006
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
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 4
- 841 m
Dorchester Middle School
Academy converter
- 874 m
Sunninghill Preparatory School
Other independent school
- 1.0 km
The Thomas Hardye School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,381
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 466
- Anti social behaviour 296
- Shoplifting 200
- Criminal damage and arson 97
- Other theft 84
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- 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%
1,187 residents
685 residents
1,432 residents
2,424 residents
2,367 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
ATRIUM HEALTH CENTRE
7 WEYMOUTH AVENUE, DORCHESTER, DT1 1QR
ODS code J81068
632 m
QUEENS AVENUE SURGERY
14 QUEENS AVENUE, DORCHESTER, DT1 2EW
ODS code J81016
828 m
POUNDBURY DOCTORS SURGERY
3 FREDERICK TREVES HOUSE, ST. JOHN WAY, DORCHESTER, DT1 2FD
ODS code J81082
974 m
PRINCE OF WALES SURGERY
2 FREDERICK TREVES HOUSE, ST. JOHN WAY, DORCHESTER, DT1 2FD
ODS code J81609
974 m
FORDINGTON SURGERY
91 HIGH STREET, FORDINGTON, DORCHESTER, DT1 1LD
ODS code J81626
1.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Top O Town Coach Park
BCQ · Dorchester
- 0.1 miles
Dorset County Hospital
BCT · Dorchester
- 0.1 miles
Top O Town
BCT · Dorchester
- 0.1 miles
Top O Town
BCT · Dorchester
- 0.2 miles
Williams Avenue
BCT · Dorchester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 031A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,162 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
1,381 published events cover 12 months, averaging 115.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 466 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.