Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Shaftesbury School is the nearest published school at 304 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SP7 8RQ
Shaftesbury Town · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 8RQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 2024
- Terminated
- 1 February 2025
- Postcode area
- SP
- Postcode district
- SP7
- Postcode sector
- SP7 8
- Latitude
- 51.001287
- Longitude
- -2.184667
- British National Grid easting
- 387,138
- British National Grid northing
- 122,450
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
- E00183083
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 003E · E01034375
- 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
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 304 m
Shaftesbury School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Shaftesbury Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
The Abbey CofE VA Primary School, Shaftesbury
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 597
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 195
- Anti social behaviour 121
- Shoplifting 73
- Criminal damage and arson 56
- 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%
1,533 residents
918 residents
2,135 residents
2,280 residents
2,078 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
- 0.1 miles
Pix Mead Gardens
BCT · St James
- 0.1 miles
Half Moon Inn
BCT · St James
- 0.1 miles
Shaftesbury School
BCT · St James
- 0.1 miles
Shaftesbury School
BCT · St James
- 0.1 miles
Shaftesbury School
BCT · St James
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 003E, 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
27,398 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
597 published events cover 12 months, averaging 49.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 195 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.