Property market
The five-year median is £188,750 from 6 recorded sales in DT9 6AE. 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 6AE
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT9 6AE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT9
- Postcode sector
- DT9 6
- Latitude
- 50.942022
- Longitude
- -2.528096
- British National Grid easting
- 362,993
- British National Grid northing
- 115,976
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
- E00104212
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 004E · E01020547
- 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
23 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 16, Lenthay Close, Sherborne, DT9 6AE | 27 March 2025 | £217,500 |
| 22, Lenthay Close, Sherborne, DT9 6AE | 14 February 2025 | £160,000 |
| 8, Lenthay Close, Sherborne, DT9 6AE | 23 October 2023 | £190,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 337 m
Sherborne Abbey Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 687 m
Sherborne School for Girls
Other independent school
- 833 m
Sherborne Preparatory School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 428
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 135
- Anti social behaviour 123
- Shoplifting 52
- Other theft 34
- Criminal damage and arson 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 82
- Postcode households
- 45
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- DT9 6 residents
- 6,870
55 female, 27 male
Age bands in DT9 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 33%
907 residents
639 residents
1,055 residents
2,031 residents
2,282 residents
This postcode contained 1.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DT9 6 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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 straight-line
THE APPLES MEDICAL CENTRE
EAST MILL LANE, SHERBORNE, DT9 3DG
ODS code J81029
1.5 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOTTON GROVE, SHERBORNE, DT9 4DL
ODS code J81078
1.6 km
MILBORNE PORT SURGERY
GAINSBOROUGH, MILBOURNE PORT, SHERBORNE, DT9 5FH
ODS code L85031
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lenthay Close
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.1 miles
Lenthay Close
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.1 miles
South Avenue
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.1 miles
South Avenue
BCT · Sherborne
- 0.2 miles
Littlefield Post Office
BCT · Sherborne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 004E, 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
14,087 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
11 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Sherborne Abbey Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 337 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
428 published events cover 12 months, averaging 35.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 135 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.