Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Sherborne School is the nearest published school at 80 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DT9 3BE
Sherborne West · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sherborne West
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT9
- Postcode sector
- DT9 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT9 3BE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1983
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT9
- Postcode sector
- DT9 3
- Latitude
- 50.946786
- Longitude
- -2.516663
- British National Grid easting
- 363,800
- British National Grid northing
- 116,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Sherborne West · E05012717
- Parish or community
- E04003593
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00166081
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 004D · E01020546
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 004 · E02004269
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 DT9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 80 m
Sherborne School
Other independent school
- 215 m
Sherborne Preparatory School
Other independent school
- 795 m
Sherborne School for Girls
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 582
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 213
- Anti social behaviour 154
- Shoplifting 53
- Criminal damage and arson 42
- Other theft 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DT9 3 residents
- 3,903
Age bands in DT9 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 11.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 41.5%
440 residents
475 residents
425 residents
771 residents
1,499 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
THE APPLES MEDICAL CENTRE
EAST MILL LANE, SHERBORNE, DT9 3DG
ODS code J81029
588 m
THE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOTTON GROVE, SHERBORNE, DT9 4DL
ODS code J81078
751 m
MILBORNE PORT SURGERY
GAINSBOROUGH, MILBOURNE PORT, SHERBORNE, DT9 5FH
ODS code L85031
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Digby Road
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.1 miles
Digby Road
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.1 miles
Acreman Place
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.1 miles
Durrant Close
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.2 miles
Culverhayes Car Park
BCT · Sherborne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 004D, 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
18,655 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
582 published events cover 12 months, averaging 48.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 213 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.