Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Bridport Primary School is the nearest published school at 236 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DT6 3BH
Bridport · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bridport
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT6
- Postcode sector
- DT6 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT6 3BH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 2003
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT6
- Postcode sector
- DT6 3
- Latitude
- 50.735184
- Longitude
- -2.751798
- British National Grid easting
- 347,042
- British National Grid northing
- 93,112
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Bridport · E05015779
- Parish or community
- E04013370
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00103937
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 026C · E01020500
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 026 · E02004274
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 DT6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 236 m
Bridport Primary School
Academy converter
- 708 m
St Catherine's Roman Catholic School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Bridport, St Mary's Church of England Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 755
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 323
- Anti social behaviour 157
- Criminal damage and arson 58
- Shoplifting 55
- Other theft 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DT6 3 residents
- 6,246
Age bands in DT6 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.6%
820 residents
489 residents
1,142 residents
1,842 residents
2,072 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
AMMONITE HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
BRIDPORT MEDICAL CENTRE, WEST ALLINGTON, BRIDPORT, DT6 5BN
ODS code J81076
1.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
East Road Roundabout
BCT · Bridport
- 0.1 miles
East Road Roundabout
BCT · Bridport
- 0.2 miles
East Street Bridge
BCT · Bridport
- 0.2 miles
East Bridge
BCT · Bridport
- 0.2 miles
Toll House
BCT · Bridport
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 026C, 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
14,845 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
755 published events cover 12 months, averaging 62.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 323 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.