Dorset (E06000059) is a unitary authority in the South West.
Areas in and around Dorset
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Areas in Dorset
Wards
- Beacon
- Beaminster
- Blackmore Vale
- Blandford
- Bridport
- Chalk Valleys
- Charminster St Mary's
- Chesil Bank
- Chickerell
- Colehill and Wimborne Minster East
- Corfe Mullen
- Cranborne and Alderholt
- Cranborne Chase
- Crossways
- Dorchester East
- Dorchester Poundbury
- Dorchester West
- Eggardon
- Ferndown North
- Ferndown South
- Gillingham
- Hill Forts and Upper Tarrants
- Littlemoor and Preston
- Lyme and Charmouth
- Lytchett Matravers and Upton
- Marshwood Vale
- Melcombe Regis
- Portland
- Puddletown and Lower Winterborne
- Radipole
- Rodwell and Wyke
- Shaftesbury Town
- Sherborne East
- Sherborne Rural
- Sherborne West
- South East Purbeck
- St Leonards and St Ives
- Stalbridge and Marnhull
- Stour and Allen Vale
- Sturminster Newton
- Swanage
- Upwey and Broadwey
- Verwood
- Wareham
- West Moors and Three Legged Cross
- West Parley
- West Purbeck
- Westham
- Wimborne Minster
- Winterborne and Broadmayne
- Winterborne North
- Yetminster
Parishes
- Abbotsbury
- Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle
- Alderholt
- Allington
- Alton Pancras
- Anderson
- Arne
- Ashmore
- Askerswell
- Athelhampton
- Batcombe
- Beaminster
- Beer Hackett
- Bere Regis
- Bettiscombe
- Bincombe
- Bishop's Caundle
- Blandford Forum
- Blandford St. Mary
- Bloxworth
- Bothenhampton
- Bourton
- Bradford Abbas
- Bradford Peverell
- Bradpole
- Bridport
- Broadmayne
- Broadwindsor
- Bryanston
- Buckhorn Weston
- Buckland Newton
- Burleston
- Burstock
- Burton Bradstock
- Cann
- Castleton
- Catherston Leweston
- Cattistock
- Caundle Marsh
- Cerne Abbas
- Chalbury
- Chaldon Herring
- Charlton Marshall
- Charminster
- Charmouth
- Chedington
- Cheselbourne
- Chetnole
- Chettle
- Chickerell
- Chideock
- Chilcombe
- Child Okeford
- Chilfrome
- Church Knowle
- Clifton Maybank
- Colehill
- Compton Abbas
- Compton Valence
- Coombe Keynes
- Corfe Castle
- Corfe Mullen
- Corscombe
- Cranborne
- Crichel
- Crossways
- Dewlish
- Dorchester
- Durweston
- East Chelborough
- East Holme
- East Lulworth
- East Orchard
- East Stoke
- East Stour
- Edmondsham
- Evershot
- Farnham
- Ferndown Town
- Fifehead Magdalen
- Fifehead Neville
- Fleet
- Folke
- Fontmell Magna
- Frampton
- Frome St. Quintin
- Frome Vauchurch
- Gillingham
- Glanvilles Wootton
- Goathill
- Godmanstone
- Gussage All Saints
- Gussage St. Michael
- Halstock
- Hammoon
- Hanford
- Haydon
- Hazelbury Bryan
- Hermitage
- Hilfield
- Hilton
- Hinton
- Hinton St. Mary
- Holnest
- Holt
- Holwell
- Hooke
- Horton
- Ibberton
- Iwerne Courtney or Shroton
- Iwerne Minster
- Iwerne Stepleton
- Kimmeridge
- Kingston Russell
- Kington Magna
- Langton Herring
- Langton Long Blandford
- Langton Matravers
- Leigh
- Leweston
- Lillington
- Littlebredy
- Litton Cheney
- Loders
- Long Bredy
- Longburton
- Lydlinch
- Lyme Regis
- Lytchett Matravers
- Lytchett Minster and Upton
- Maiden Newton
- Manston
- Mapperton
- Mappowder
- Margaret Marsh
- Marnhull
- Marshwood
- Melbury Abbas
- Melbury Bubb
- Melbury Osmond
- Melbury Sampford
- Melcombe Horsey
- Milborne St. Andrew
- Milton Abbas
- Minterne Magna
- Morden
- Moreton
- Mosterton
- Motcombe
- Nether Cerne
- Nether Compton
- Netherbury
- North Poorton
- North Wootton
- Oborne
- Okeford Fitzpaine
- Osmington
- Over Compton
- Owermoigne
- Pamphill
- Piddlehinton
- Piddletrenthide
- Pilsdon
- Pimperne
- Portesham
- Portland
- Powerstock
- Poxwell
- Poyntington
- Puddletown
- Pulham
- Puncknowle
- Purse Caundle
- Rampisham
- Ryme Intrinseca
- Sandford Orcas
- Seaborough
- Shaftesbury
- Shapwick
- Sherborne
- Shillingstone
- Shipton Gorge
- Silton
- Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge
- South Perrott
- Spetisbury
- St. Leonards and St. Ives
- Stalbridge
- Stanton St. Gabriel
- Steeple with Tyneham
- Stinsford
- Stockwood
- Stoke Abbott
- Stoke Wake
- Stour Provost
- Stourpaine
- Stourton Caundle
- Stratton
- Studland
- Sturminster Marshall
- Sturminster Newton
- Sutton Waldron
- Swanage
- Swyre
- Sydling St. Nicholas
- Symondsbury
- Tarrant Crawford
- Tarrant Gunville
- Tarrant Hinton
- Tarrant Keyneston
- Tarrant Launceston
- Tarrant Monkton
- Tarrant Rawston
- Tarrant Rushton
- Thorncombe
- Thornford
- Tincleton
- Todber
- Toller Fratrum
- Toller Porcorum
- Tolpuddle
- Trent
- Turnworth
- Up Cerne
- Verwood
- Wareham St. Martin
- Wareham Town
- Warmwell
- West Chelborough
- West Compton
- West Knighton
- West Lulworth
- West Moors
- West Orchard
- West Parley
- West Stafford
- West Stour
- Weymouth
- Whitchurch Canonicorum
- Whitcombe
- Wimborne Minster
- Wimborne St. Giles
- Winfrith Newburgh
- Winterborne Came
- Winterborne Clenston
- Winterborne Herringston
- Winterborne Houghton
- Winterborne Kingston
- Winterborne Monkton
- Winterborne St. Martin
- Winterborne Stickland
- Winterborne Whitechurch
- Winterborne Zelston
- Winterbourne Abbas
- Winterbourne Steepleton
- Witchampton
- Woodlands
- Woodsford
- Wool
- Woolland
- Wootton Fitzpaine
- Worth Matravers
- Wraxall
- Wynford Eagle
- Yetminster
MSOAs
- Alderholt and Sixpenny Handley
- Beaminster, Maiden Newton and Halstock
- Bere Regis and Lytchett Matravers
- Blandford Forum Town
- Blandford Outer and Tarrants
- Bovington, Wool and Lulworth
- Bridport North
- Bridport South and West Bay
- Broadwey and Littlemoor
- Burton Bradstock and Chideock
- Charlton Down, Cerne Abbas and Puddletown
- Chickerell and Chesil Bank
- Child Okeford and Iwerne Minster
- Colehill
- Corfe Castle and Langton Matravers
- Corfe Mullen
- Dorchester East
- Dorchester North
- East Verwood
- Ferndown Town
- Ferndown West and Canford Bottom
- Gillingham
- Gillingham Outer, Bourton and Motcombe
- Lyme Regis, Charmouth and Marshwood Vale
- Milborne, Winterborne and Okeford Fitzpaine
- Owermoigne, Broadmayne and Winterbourne
- Parley and Hampreston
- Poundbury and Dorchester West
- Preston and Lodmoor
- Shaftesbury
- Sherborne
- Southwell and Weston
- St Leonards
- Sturminster Marshall and Crichel
- Sturminster Newton and Stalbridge
- Swanage
- Underhill and The Grove
- Upton and Lytchett Minster
- Wareham, Sandford and Holton Heath
- West Moors
- West Verwood
- Westham North and Radipole
- Westham South
- Weymouth Town, Melcombe Regis and Rodwell
- Weymouth West
- Wimborne Minster
- Wyke Regis
- Yetminster, Bradford Abbas and Longburton
Facts and figures for Dorset
Census maps
View Census 2021 data for Dorset on a map.
Changes over time
Read how Dorset has changed since the 2011 Census.
Custom profiles
Build a custom area profile for Dorset using Census 2021 data.
Area profiles
View Census 2021 data tables for Dorset on Nomis, an ONS service (external).
Subnational indicators
Find out how Dorset compares on indicators such as weekly pay and healthy life expectancy.
Mortgage calculator
See how average house prices and changing interest rates affecting monthly mortgage repayments in Dorset.
Census quiz
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Health index
See how Dorset compares to the rest of England on different health measures.
Income deprivation
Explore income deprivation in Dorset at a neighbourhood level.