Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Sandroyd School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SP5 5YB
Cranborne Chase · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Cranborne Chase
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset
- Postcode district
- SP5
- Postcode sector
- SP5 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SP5 5YB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SP
- Postcode district
- SP5
- Postcode sector
- SP5 5
- Latitude
- 50.952417
- Longitude
- -2.044075
- British National Grid easting
- 397,000
- British National Grid northing
- 117,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Cranborne Chase · E05012694
- Parish or community
- E04012455
- Westminster constituency
- North Dorset · E14001388
- Output area
- E00103356
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 007D · E01020397
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 007 · E02004243
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 SP5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.2 km
Sandroyd School
Other independent school
- 2.5 km
Sixpenny Handley First School and Nursery
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SP5 5 residents
- 3,188
Age bands in SP5 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.8%
412 residents
218 residents
467 residents
1,000 residents
849 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Chase Cresent
BCT · Woodcutts
- 0.3 miles
Chase Cresent
BCT · Woodcutts
- 0.9 miles
Dean Cross
BCT · Dean
- 0.9 miles
Dean Cross
BCT · Dean
- 1.4 miles
Minchington Farm
BCT · Minchington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 007D, 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
14,851 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.