Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Gillingham Primary School is the nearest published school at 197 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SP8 9AJ
Gillingham · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Gillingham
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset
- Postcode district
- SP8
- Postcode sector
- SP8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SP8 9AJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 2010
- Terminated
- 1 October 2014
- Postcode area
- SP
- Postcode district
- SP8
- Postcode sector
- SP8 9
- Latitude
- 51.036535
- Longitude
- -2.272463
- British National Grid easting
- 380,992
- British National Grid northing
- 126,389
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
- E00103606
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 001A · E01020443
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 001 · E02004255
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
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 197 m
Gillingham Primary School
Academy converter
- 351 m
Gillingham School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.1 km
Wyke Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 451
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 160
- Anti social behaviour 105
- Criminal damage and arson 49
- Other theft 34
- Burglary 23
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
GILLINGHAM MEDICAL PRACTICE
BARN SURGERY, NEWBURY, GILLINGHAM, SP8 4XS
ODS code J81081
168 m
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Station Road Top
BCT · Gillingham
- 0.0 miles
Gillingham High St (opp. School Road)
BCT · Gillingham
- 0.1 miles
Barn Surgery
BCT · Gillingham
- 0.1 miles
Barn Surgery
BCT · Gillingham
- 0.1 miles
Methodist Church
BCT · Gillingham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 001A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,780 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
451 published events cover 12 months, averaging 37.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 160 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.