Cranborne & Alderholt · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
St James' Church of England First School and Nursery, Alderholt
Academy converter
Forres Sandle Manor School
Other independent school
Fordingbridge Infant School
Community school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
675 residents
419 residents
857 residents
1,530 residents
1,210 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.
1
within 5 km straight-line
BARTONS ROAD, FORDINGBRIDGE, SP6 1RS
ODS code J82131
2.9 km
Wren Gardens
BCT · Alderholt
Wren Gardens
BCT · Alderholt
Fern Close
BCT · Alderholt
Fern Close
BCT · Alderholt
Park Lane
BCT · Alderholt
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 007B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,390 of 33,755
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.
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. St James' Church of England First School and Nursery, Alderholt is the nearest published school at 529 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
87 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 22 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.