Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Leweston School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DT9 5GN
Yetminster · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Yetminster
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Postcode district
- DT9
- Postcode sector
- DT9 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT9 5GN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT9
- Postcode sector
- DT9 5
- Latitude
- 50.913493
- Longitude
- -2.500647
- British National Grid easting
- 364,900
- British National Grid northing
- 112,790
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Yetminster · E05012733
- Parish or community
- E04003559
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00103985
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 008B · E01020508
- 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
- 0
- 1.4 km
Leweston School
Other independent school
- 3.6 km
Sherborne Abbey Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.9 km
Sherborne School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Vehicle crime 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DT9 5 residents
- 5,380
Age bands in DT9 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.4%
797 residents
488 residents
1,015 residents
1,509 residents
1,514 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.
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
2
within 5 km
THE APPLES MEDICAL CENTRE
EAST MILL LANE, SHERBORNE, DT9 3DG
ODS code J81029
3.9 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOTTON GROVE, SHERBORNE, DT9 4DL
ODS code J81078
4.5 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
Rose and Crown
BCT · Longburton
- 0.0 miles
Rose and Crown
BCT · Longburton
- 0.3 miles
Kings Close
BCT · Longburton
- 0.3 miles
Kings Close
BCT · Longburton
- 0.3 miles
Bradford Lane
BCT · Longburton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 008B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,654 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
6 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.