Wimborne Minster
TownTown in Dorset, South West.
Wimborne Minster is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wimborne Minster 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 43% of people in Wimborne Minster live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wimborne Minster compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wimborne Minster safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wimborne Minster at a rate of 57.6 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, 125 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wimborne Minster.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (378), anti-social behaviour (290) and other crime (127).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wimborne Minster was 61.3 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 Wimborne Minster, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wimborne Minster has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Wimborne Minster
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorset 017A | 1,568 | 9.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.6% |
| Dorset 017B | 1,512 | 41.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.1% |
| Dorset 017C | 1,701 | 49.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.9% |
| Dorset 017D | 1,246 | 26.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 81.7% |
| Dorset 020C | 1,558 | 24.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.5% |
| Dorset 020D | 1,203 | 24.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.9% |
| Dorset 021A | 1,810 | 56.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.1% |
| Dorset 021B | 2,230 | 78.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.1% |
| Dorset 021C | 1,926 | 138.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 78.2% |
| Dorset 021D | 2,018 | 83.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.2% |
Your MP
- Vikki SladeLiberal DemocratMP for Mid Dorset and North Poole
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 Wimborne Minster1
Middle areas in Wimborne Minster2
Towns near Wimborne Minster6
Wimborne Minster in brief
Wimborne Minster is a town in Dorset, South West.
About 18,016 people lived in Wimborne Minster in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £386,200 in 2025 across 323 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 57.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wimborne Minster was £386,200 in 2025.
Wimborne Minster had 16,629 usual residents at the census.
About 43% of people in Wimborne Minster live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wimborne Minster, 88.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.