Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Wyke Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SP8 5TD
Gillingham · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Gillingham
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset
- Postcode district
- SP8
- Postcode sector
- SP8 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SP8 5TD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- SP
- Postcode district
- SP8
- Postcode sector
- SP8 5
- Latitude
- 51.033546
- Longitude
- -2.310180
- British National Grid easting
- 378,346
- British National Grid northing
- 126,067
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Gillingham · E05012702
- Parish or community
- E04013378
- Westminster constituency
- North Dorset · E14001388
- Output area
- E00103585
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 002A · E01020440
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 002 · E02004256
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 SP8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.6 km
Wyke Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 2.6 km
Gillingham Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.0 km
Gillingham School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 51
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 21
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Other theft 8
- Public order 4
- Burglary 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SP8 5 residents
- 3,606
Age bands in SP8 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.9%
510 residents
291 residents
601 residents
1,223 residents
1,231 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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
GILLINGHAM MEDICAL PRACTICE
BARN SURGERY, NEWBURY, GILLINGHAM, SP8 4XS
ODS code J81081
2.8 km
SILTON SURGERY
THE SURGERY, GILLINGHAM ROAD, SILTON, GILLINGHAM, SP8 5DF
ODS code J83629
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.9 miles
Pound Lane
BCT · Wyke
- 0.9 miles
Pound Lane
BCT · Wyke
- 1.0 miles
Primary School
BCT · Wyke
- 1.0 miles
Primary School
BCT · Wyke
- 1.0 miles
Laburnum Way
BCT · Wyke
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 002A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,125 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 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
51 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 21 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.