Property market
The five-year median is £425,000 from 27 recorded sales in DT9 6FF. 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 6FF
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DT9 6FF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2021
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DT
- Postcode district
- DT9
- Postcode sector
- DT9 6
- Latitude
- 50.920491
- Longitude
- -2.559507
- British National Grid easting
- 360,768
- British National Grid northing
- 113,598
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Sherborne Rural · E05012716
- Parish or community
- E04003605
- Westminster constituency
- West Dorset · E14001575
- Output area
- E00103914
- 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
28 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 23, Wingfield Place, Thornford, Sherborne, DT9 6FF | 19 December 2025 | £430,000 |
| 20, Wingfield Place, Thornford, Sherborne, DT9 6FF | 25 November 2025 | £461,000 |
| 13, Wingfield Place, Thornford, Sherborne, DT9 6FF | 16 October 2025 | £472,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 0
- 485 m
Thornford CofE Primary School
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- 2.2 km
St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Bradford Abbas
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- 2.9 km
Sherborne Abbey Church of England Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 26
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 9
- Burglary 5
- Other theft 5
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DT9 6 residents
- 6,870
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
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
YETMINSTER HEALTH CENTRE
CHURCH STREET, YETMINSTER, SHERBORNE, DT9 6LG
ODS code J81017
3.2 km
THE APPLES MEDICAL CENTRE
EAST MILL LANE, SHERBORNE, DT9 3DG
ODS code J81029
4.7 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOTTON GROVE, SHERBORNE, DT9 4DL
ODS code J81078
4.9 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 1.1 miles
Thornford Bridge Halt
BCT · Thornford
- 1.1 miles
Thornford Rail Station
RLY · Thornford
- 1.1 miles
Thornford Bridge Halt
BCT · Thornford
- 1.1 miles
Thornford Rail Station
RSE · Thornford
- 1.2 miles
Beer Hackett Turn
BCT · Beer Hackett
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
- 4
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- 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 0 secondary schools. Thornford CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 485 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
26 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.