Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Woodroffe School is the nearest published school at 363 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DT7 3UD
Lyme & Charmouth · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lyme & Charmouth
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT7
- Postcode sector
- DT7 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT7 3UD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT7
- Postcode sector
- DT7 3
- Latitude
- 50.733153
- Longitude
- -2.946481
- British National Grid easting
- 333,301
- British National Grid northing
- 93,044
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Lyme & Charmouth · E05012705
- Parish or community
- E04003560
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00104125
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 023B · E01020532
- 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 DT7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 363 m
The Woodroffe School
Foundation school
- 974 m
Mrs Ethelston's CofE Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
St Michael's CofE Primary School, Lyme Regis
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 194
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 79
- Anti social behaviour 42
- Other theft 13
- Criminal damage and arson 13
- Burglary 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DT7 3 residents
- 5,568
Age bands in DT7 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 12.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 37.2%
667 residents
464 residents
711 residents
1,808 residents
2,160 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
LYME BAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
LYME REGIS MEDICAL CENTRE, UPLYME ROAD, LYME REGIS, DT7 3LS
ODS code J81647
369 m
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Woodroffe School
BCT · Lyme Regis
- 0.1 miles
Woodroffe School
BCT · Lyme Regis
- 0.2 miles
Woodroffe School Layby
BCT · Lyme Regis
- 0.2 miles
Haye Close
BCT · Lyme Regis
- 0.2 miles
Medical Centre
BCT · Lyme Regis
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 023B, 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
24,038 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
194 published events cover 12 months, averaging 16.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 79 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.