Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Charmouth Primary School is the nearest published school at 208 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DT6 6FG
Lyme & Charmouth · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lyme & Charmouth
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT6
- Postcode sector
- DT6 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT6 6FG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT6
- Postcode sector
- DT6 6
- Latitude
- 50.737292
- Longitude
- -2.900903
- British National Grid easting
- 336,523
- British National Grid northing
- 93,464
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Lyme & Charmouth · E05012705
- Parish or community
- E04003520
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00104003
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 023A · E01020511
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 023 · E02004273
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
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 208 m
Charmouth Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 2.5 km
St Michael's CofE Primary School, Lyme Regis
Academy sponsor led
- 3.5 km
The Woodroffe School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 58
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 19
- Anti social behaviour 12
- Criminal damage and arson 7
- Public order 6
- Other theft 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DT6 6 residents
- 3,510
Age bands in DT6 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 12.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 40.9%
351 residents
268 residents
451 residents
1,034 residents
1,454 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
LYME BAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
LYME REGIS MEDICAL CENTRE, UPLYME ROAD, LYME REGIS, DT7 3LS
ODS code J81647
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
St Andrews Church
BCT · Charmouth
- 0.1 miles
St Andrews Church
BCT · Charmouth
- 0.2 miles
Georges Close
BCT · Charmouth
- 0.2 miles
Georges Close
BCT · Charmouth
- 0.3 miles
Old Lyme Hill
BCT · Charmouth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 023A, 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
17,109 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
58 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 19 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.