Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Compass is the nearest published school at 479 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DT4 0LB
Westham · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Westham
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT4
- Postcode sector
- DT4 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT4 0LB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT4
- Postcode sector
- DT4 0
- Latitude
- 50.607965
- Longitude
- -2.467715
- British National Grid easting
- 367,000
- British National Grid northing
- 78,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Westham · E05012729
- Parish or community
- E04013390
- Westminster constituency
- South Dorset · E14001485
- Output area
- E00104357
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 043B · E01020573
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 043 · E02004285
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 DT4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 479 m
The Compass
Pupil referral unit
- 568 m
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Weymouth
Academy converter
- 590 m
Kingfisher School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,034
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,257
- Anti social behaviour 661
- Shoplifting 245
- Criminal damage and arson 244
- Public order 160
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DT4 0 residents
- 12,968
Age bands in DT4 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.4%
2,005 residents
1,306 residents
3,094 residents
3,700 residents
2,909 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
CROSS ROAD SURGERY
CROSS ROAD, WEYMOUTH, DT4 9QX
ODS code J81075
675 m
THE BRIDGES MEDICAL CTR.
26 COMMERCIAL ROAD, WEYMOUTH, DT4 7DW
ODS code J81073
1.1 km
WEYMOUTH BAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 CRESCENT STREET, WEYMOUTH, DT4 7BY
ODS code J81027
1.4 km
WYKE REGIS & LANEHOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PORTLAND ROAD, WYKE REGIS, WEYMOUTH, DT4 9BE
ODS code J81051
1.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Tennyson Road
BCT · Rodwell
- 0.1 miles
Tennyson Road
BCT · Rodwell
- 0.2 miles
Pye Hill
BCT · Rodwell
- 0.2 miles
Ashton Road
BCT · Rodwell
- 0.2 miles
Ashton Road
BCT · Rodwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 043B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
6,829 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
3,034 published events cover 12 months, averaging 252.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,257 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.