Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Sherborne Primary School is the nearest published school at 222 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DT9 4AW
Sherborne East · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sherborne East
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT9
- Postcode sector
- DT9 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT9 4AW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2017
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT9
- Postcode sector
- DT9 4
- Latitude
- 50.953608
- Longitude
- -2.511300
- British National Grid easting
- 364,182
- British National Grid northing
- 117,256
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Sherborne East · E05012715
- Parish or community
- E04003593
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00104194
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 004B · E01020543
- 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
- 9
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 222 m
Sherborne Primary School
Academy converter
- 228 m
Harbour Vale School
Academy alternative provision sponsor led
- 649 m
The Gryphon School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 496
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 174
- Anti social behaviour 134
- Shoplifting 42
- Other theft 35
- Criminal damage and arson 35
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DT9 4 residents
- 6,176
Age bands in DT9 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.4%
1,032 residents
762 residents
1,257 residents
1,670 residents
1,779 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 GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOTTON GROVE, SHERBORNE, DT9 4DL
ODS code J81078
173 m
THE APPLES MEDICAL CENTRE
EAST MILL LANE, SHERBORNE, DT9 3DG
ODS code J81029
631 m
MILBORNE PORT SURGERY
GAINSBOROUGH, MILBOURNE PORT, SHERBORNE, DT9 5FH
ODS code L85031
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Wootton Grove
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.1 miles
Wootton Grove
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.1 miles
Wootton Grove
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.1 miles
Lambs Field
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.2 miles
Lambs Field
BCT · Sherborne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 004B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,283 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
496 published events cover 12 months, averaging 41.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 174 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.