Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Coombe House School is the nearest published school at 828 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SP7 8BY
Shaftesbury Town · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Shaftesbury
- Ward
- Shaftesbury Town
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset
- Postcode district
- SP7
- Postcode sector
- SP7 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SP7 8BY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SP
- Postcode district
- SP7
- Postcode sector
- SP7 8
- Latitude
- 51.001133
- Longitude
- -2.173878
- British National Grid easting
- 387,895
- British National Grid northing
- 122,431
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Shaftesbury Town · E05012714
- Parish or community
- E04003434
- Westminster constituency
- North Dorset · E14001388
- Output area
- E00183060
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 003D · E01034374
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 003 · E02004257
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
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Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Cottage, Salisbury Road, Shaftesbury, SP7 8BY | 21 August 2020 | £345,000 |
| New Lane Cottages, 2, Salisbury Road, Shaftesbury, SP7 8BY | 13 January 2020 | £145,000 |
| Stone Cottage, Salisbury Road, Shaftesbury, SP7 8BY | 16 August 1999 | £55,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 828 m
Coombe House School
Other independent special school
- 1.1 km
Shaftesbury School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Shaftesbury Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 396
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 145
- Anti social behaviour 93
- Criminal damage and arson 37
- Other theft 25
- Shoplifting 22
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 3.3
- SP7 8 residents
- 8,950
3 female, 7 male
Age bands in SP7 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.2%
1,533 residents
918 residents
2,135 residents
2,280 residents
2,078 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SP7 8 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
St Mary's School
BCT · Middle Coombe
- 0.1 miles
St Mary's School
BCT · Middle Coombe
- 0.3 miles
Opp. Caldwell Close
BCT · Shaftesbury
- 0.4 miles
Half Moon Inn
BCT · St James
- 0.4 miles
Pix Mead Gardens
BCT · St James
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 003D, 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
16,084 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
Recorded crime
396 published events cover 12 months, averaging 33 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 145 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.