Property market
The five-year median is £291,500 from 2 recorded sales in DT9 4EF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Dorset is £325,410 in June 2026, up 1.6% year on year.
DT9 4EF
Sherborne East · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Sherborne
- 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 4EF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT9
- Postcode sector
- DT9 4
- Latitude
- 50.956735
- Longitude
- -2.517770
- British National Grid easting
- 363,730
- British National Grid northing
- 117,607
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
- E00104189
- 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
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Clearbrook House, Bristol Road, Sherborne, DT9 4EF | 25 August 2022 | £236,000 |
| Overdale, Bristol Road, Sherborne, DT9 4EF | 18 July 2022 | £347,000 |
| Bristol Road Stores, Bristol Road, Sherborne, DT9 4EF | 22 December 2020 | £20,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 299 m
The Gryphon School
Academy converter
- 360 m
Sherborne Primary School
Academy converter
- 368 m
Harbour Vale School
Academy alternative provision sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 510
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 179
- Anti social behaviour 141
- Shoplifting 42
- Criminal damage and arson 36
- Other theft 35
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- DT9 4 residents
- 6,176
6 female, 2 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DT9 4 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOTTON GROVE, SHERBORNE, DT9 4DL
ODS code J81078
480 m
THE APPLES MEDICAL CENTRE
EAST MILL LANE, SHERBORNE, DT9 3DG
ODS code J81029
1.1 km
MILBORNE PORT SURGERY
GAINSBOROUGH, MILBOURNE PORT, SHERBORNE, DT9 5FH
ODS code L85031
3.5 km
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
- 0.0 miles
Queens Terrace
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.1 miles
The Mermaid
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.1 miles
The Mermaid
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.2 miles
Simons Road
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.2 miles
The Gryphon School
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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Gryphon School is the nearest published school at 299 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
510 published events cover 12 months, averaging 42.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 179 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.