Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Wyvern Academy is the nearest published school at 454 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DT3 5AP
Upwey & Broadwey · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Upwey & Broadwey
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT3
- Postcode sector
- DT3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT3 5AP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 2013
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT3
- Postcode sector
- DT3 5
- Latitude
- 50.637154
- Longitude
- -2.470466
- British National Grid easting
- 366,826
- British National Grid northing
- 82,047
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Upwey & Broadwey · E05012723
- Parish or community
- E04013390
- Westminster constituency
- South Dorset · E14001485
- Output area
- E00104400
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 041D · E01020579
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 041 · E02004283
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 DT3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 454 m
Wyvern Academy
Academy special converter
- 506 m
Radipole Primary School
Community school
- 645 m
Wey Valley Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 577
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 184
- Anti social behaviour 128
- Shoplifting 115
- Other theft 43
- Criminal damage and arson 30
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DT3 5 residents
- 9,249
Age bands in DT3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.1%
1,262 residents
808 residents
1,852 residents
2,772 residents
2,484 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
WEYMOUTH BAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 CRESCENT STREET, WEYMOUTH, DT4 7BY
ODS code J81027
2.6 km
THE BRIDGES MEDICAL CTR.
26 COMMERCIAL ROAD, WEYMOUTH, DT4 7DW
ODS code J81073
2.7 km
CROSS ROAD SURGERY
CROSS ROAD, WEYMOUTH, DT4 9QX
ODS code J81075
3.9 km
WYKE REGIS & LANEHOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PORTLAND ROAD, WYKE REGIS, WEYMOUTH, DT4 9BE
ODS code J81051
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Sports Centre
BCT · Redlands
- 0.1 miles
Sports Centre
BCT · Redlands
- 0.2 miles
Manor Road
BCT · Radipole
- 0.2 miles
Manor Road
BCT · Radipole
- 0.3 miles
Wey Valley School Exit
BCT · Redlands
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 041D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,184 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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
577 published events cover 12 months, averaging 48.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 184 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.