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DT1 postcode district

DT1 holds 793 live postcodes around Dorchester, in Dorset.

Towns and villages with their centre in DT1

#PlaceCounty / councilPopulation
1DorchesterDorset16,879
DT1 (centre of its postcodes) in the UK

Wards

NameShare of postcodes
Dorchester West41%
Dorchester East30%
Dorchester Poundbury29%
Charminster St Mary's0%

Westminster constituency

Every DT1 postcode falls in West Dorset.

Deprivation

The middle postcode here sits in decile 6 of the English Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021-Census LSOAs), where decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods and 10 the least. 5% of this district's postcodes sit in the most deprived three deciles, 31% in the least deprived three.

Deprivation deciles describe the LSOA neighbourhood each postcode sits in, weighted by postcodes rather than by people, because the postcode file carries no population. A district where the deprived neighbourhoods are densely populated will read better here than it would per resident.

Neighbouring districts in the DT area

DT2 · DT3 · DT4 · DT5 · DT6 · DT7 · DT8 · DT9 · DT10 · DT11

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