Dorset 040B
NeighbourhoodSouth Dorset. 1,709 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.6 square kilometres.
Deprivation by neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025
In the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, Dorset 040B is in decile 8.
How Dorset 040B compares
Each dot is a neighbourhood. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Dorset 040B safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Dorset 040B at a rate of 75.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 53.6 per 1,000 people across Preston & Lodmoor.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 16 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Dorset 040B.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (66), anti-social behaviour (32) and other crime (16).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Dorset
These figures are published for the whole of Dorset, not for each neighbourhood, so they describe all of Dorset and not Dorset 040B alone. See Dorset
Dorset 040B in brief
Dorset 040B has a deprivation score of 9.9 in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
The median price paid for a home in Dorset 040B was £385,000 in 2025.
Dorset 040B had 1,775 usual residents at the census.
In Dorset 040B, 93.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.