Winterborne Stickland has a population of 653, making it the 52nd largest place in Dorset.
#52
of 93 in Dorset
The other populations of Winterborne Stickland
Depending on where you draw the boundary, Winterborne Stickland has between 310 and 653 residents. Both are correct.
| What you mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The place itself The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core. |
653 | GeoNames |
| The built-up area Continuous development, where buildings sit less than 200m apart. Drawn from where the buildings are, not where the council boundary is. |
310 | ONS Census 2021 (2021) |
Why these differ: which population figure is right? · compare with another place
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Dorset population trends, 2001–2024.
Winterborne Stickland in context
6 km
north-east to Blandford Forum, the nearest larger town
22,318
people live within 10 km
#4,786
largest of 6,358 UK places
1,677
food businesses in Dorset
Distances are straight-line from the settlement's recorded coordinates. The 10 km figure sums the recorded places within that radius, so it describes how built-up the surroundings are rather than people per square kilometre.
The centre of Winterborne Stickland sits in postcode district DT11.
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Population since 2001
Dorset, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district DT11
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile
Nearby in Dorset
| # | Place | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cerne Abbas | 784 |
| 2 | Chideock | 686 |
| 3 | Burton Bradstock | 682 |
| 4 | Winterbourne Abbas | 652 |
| 5 | Winterborne Kingston | 643 |
| 6 | Stourpaine | 617 |