Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Gryphon School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DT9 4SY
Sherborne Rural · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 4SY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 1983
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT9
- Postcode sector
- DT9 4
- Latitude
- 50.969435
- Longitude
- -2.546750
- British National Grid easting
- 361,705
- British National Grid northing
- 119,034
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Sherborne Rural · E05012716
- Parish or community
- E04003591
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00104186
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 008C · E01020541
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.5 km
The Gryphon School
Academy converter
- 2.6 km
Trent Young's CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.7 km
Sherborne School for Girls
Other independent school
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 7.0
- DT9 4 residents
- 6,176
3 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
- 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
2
within 5 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOTTON GROVE, SHERBORNE, DT9 4DL
ODS code J81078
2.9 km
THE APPLES MEDICAL CENTRE
EAST MILL LANE, SHERBORNE, DT9 3DG
ODS code J81029
3.6 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
- 1.1 miles
Post Office
BCT · Sandford Orcas
- 1.3 miles
Adber Cross
BCT · Adber
- 1.6 miles
Barton Gardens
BCT · Sherborne
- 1.6 miles
Barton Gardens
BCT · Sherborne
- 1.6 miles
Sherborne Hotel
BCT · Sherborne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 008C, 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
18,304 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.