Property market
The five-year median is £288,000 from 2 recorded sales in DT9 4FW. 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 4FW
Sherborne West · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Sherborne
- Ward
- Sherborne West
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT9
- Postcode sector
- DT9 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT9 4FW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT9
- Postcode sector
- DT9 4
- Latitude
- 50.950179
- Longitude
- -2.529883
- British National Grid easting
- 362,874
- British National Grid northing
- 116,884
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
- E00183069
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 004F · E01034379
- 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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Barton View Business Park, Unit 6, Sheeplands Lane, Sherborne, DT9 4FW | 5 October 2023 | £288,000 |
| Barton View Business Park, Unit 6, Sheeplands Lane, Sherborne, DT9 4FW | 8 June 2022 | £288,000 |
| Barton View Business Park, Unit 7, Sheeplands Lane, Sherborne, DT9 4FW | 12 August 2020 | £85,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 267 m
Sherborne School for Girls
Other independent school
- 790 m
Sherborne Preparatory School
Other independent school
- 924 m
Sherborne School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 567
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 203
- Anti social behaviour 152
- Shoplifting 53
- Criminal damage and arson 41
- Other theft 38
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
1.2 km
THE APPLES MEDICAL CENTRE
EAST MILL LANE, SHERBORNE, DT9 3DG
ODS code J81029
1.5 km
MILBORNE PORT SURGERY
GAINSBOROUGH, MILBOURNE PORT, SHERBORNE, DT9 5FH
ODS code L85031
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Barton Gardens
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.1 miles
Barton Gardens
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.1 miles
Sherborne Hotel
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.1 miles
Sherborne Hotel
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.4 miles
Ridgeway Corner
BCT · Sherborne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 004F, 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
24,455 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
10 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Sherborne School for Girls is the nearest published school at 267 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
567 published events cover 12 months, averaging 47.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 203 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.