SP7 8QD

Shaftesbury Town · Dorset · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Shaftesbury Town
Local authority: Dorset
Constituency: North Dorset
Postcode district: SP7
Postcode sector: SP7 8

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
SP7 8QF	280 m
SP7 8RL	280 m
SP7 8UA	288 m
SP7 8FF	289 m
SP7 8UG	295 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: SP7 8QD
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: SP
Postcode district: SP7
Postcode sector: SP7 8
Latitude: 51.012221
Longitude: -2.179009
British National Grid easting: 387,538
British National Grid northing: 123,665

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: E00103684
Lower layer super output area: Dorset 003B · E01020456
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

Explore SP7

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 8
Primary: 5
Secondary: 1

Shaftesbury Church of England Primary School

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463 m
Coombe House School

Other independent special school
1.2 km
Shaftesbury School

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1.3 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 598
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 197
Anti social behaviour 117
Shoplifting 73
Criminal damage and arson 54
Other theft 38

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: Not supplied
Postcode households: Not supplied
Residents per household: Not available
SP7 8 residents: 8,950

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%

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+: 0%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 0%
Gigabit-capable: 0%

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

Blackmore Road

BCT · Ivy Cross
0.3 miles
Blackmore Road

BCT · Ivy Cross
0.3 miles
Springfield Close

BCT · Ivy Cross
0.4 miles
Springfield Close

BCT · Ivy Cross
0.4 miles
Nettlecombe

BCT · Shaftesbury
0.4 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 003B, 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

16,454 of 33,755

Income: 5 of 10
Employment: 4 of 10
Education and skills: 4 of 10
Health and disability: 5 of 10
Crime: 6 of 10
Housing and services: 5 of 10
Living environment: 9 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

8 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Shaftesbury Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 463 m.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

598 published events cover 12 months, averaging 49.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 197 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.