Property market
The five-year median is £760,000 from 1 recorded sale in DT9 4FF. 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 4FF
Sherborne Rural · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Sherborne
- Ward
- Sherborne Rural
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT9
- Postcode sector
- DT9 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT9 4FF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2015
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT9
- Postcode sector
- DT9 4
- Latitude
- 50.943270
- Longitude
- -2.586867
- British National Grid easting
- 358,865
- British National Grid northing
- 116,146
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Sherborne Rural · E05012716
- Parish or community
- E04003504
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00103912
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 008A · E01020497
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 008 · E02004270
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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Loscombe House, Old Compton Lane, Bradford Abbas, Sherborne, DT9 4FF | 29 June 2023 | £760,000 |
| New Compton House, Old Compton Lane, Bradford Abbas, Sherborne, DT9 4FF | 3 December 2008 | £379,000 |
| New Compton House, Old Compton Lane, Bradford Abbas, Sherborne, DT9 4FF | 19 March 1999 | £160,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 2.0 km
St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Bradford Abbas
Academy converter
- 2.0 km
Fiveways Special School
Community special school
- 2.2 km
Primrose Lane Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 96
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 67
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- Other theft 5
- Burglary 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- DT9 4 residents
- 6,176
2 female, 4 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+
- 0%
- 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
- 0%
- 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
OAKLANDS SURGERY
BIRCHFIELD ROAD, YEOVIL, BA21 5RL
ODS code L85064
2.5 km
PENN HILL SURGERY, YEOVIL
ST. NICHOLAS CLOSE, YEOVIL, BA20 1SB
ODS code L85017
3.3 km
DIAMOND HEALTH GROUP
74 HENDFORD, YEOVIL, BA20 1UJ
ODS code L85022
3.6 km
PRESTON GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE, YEOVIL
PRESTON GROVE, YEOVIL, BA20 2BQ
ODS code L85015
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Over Compton Turn
BCT · Over Compton
- 0.1 miles
Forwards Garage
BCT · Nether Compton
- 1.0 miles
Yeovil Bridge
BCT · Yeovil
- 1.0 miles
Yeovil Bridge
BCT · Yeovil
- 1.0 miles
Lyde Road
BCT · Yeovil
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 008A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,831 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
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
25 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Bradford Abbas is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
96 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 67 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.