Blandford Forum
TownTown in Dorset, South West.
Blandford Forum is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Blandford Forum add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Blandford Forum live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Blandford Forum compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Blandford Forum safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Blandford Forum at a rate of 61.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 83.5 per 1,000 people across South West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 93 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Blandford Forum.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (273), anti-social behaviour (198) and other crime (92).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Blandford Forum was 65.7 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Blandford Forum, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Blandford Forum has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Blandford Forum
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorset 009B | 2,582 | 64.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.4% |
| Dorset 011A | 1,733 | 42.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Dorset 011B | 2,215 | 51.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.1% |
| Dorset 011C | 1,979 | 47.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.7% |
| Dorset 011D | 2,047 | 95.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 81.2% |
| Dorset 011E | 2,385 | 41.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.2% |
Your MP
- Simon HoareConservativeMP for North Dorset
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Blandford Forum1
Middle areas in Blandford Forum1
Towns near Blandford Forum6
Blandford Forum in brief
Blandford Forum is a town in Dorset, South West.
About 12,374 people lived in Blandford Forum in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £262,000 in 2025 across 183 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 61.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Blandford Forum was £262,000 in 2025.
Blandford Forum had 11,805 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Blandford Forum live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Blandford Forum, 93.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.