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Explore house prices and housing, home energy and crime and safety in Dorchester (Dorset). This local area guide brings together 650 published figures for this town in England, with the source and date shown for each.
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£303 above Average across published towns and cities in England
153.881 above Average across published towns and cities in England
£25,697 above Average across published towns and cities in England
19.2 percentage points above Average across published towns and cities in England
£202 above Average across published towns and cities in England
£606 above Average across published towns and cities in England
2.9 percentage points above Average across published towns and cities in England
20.3 percentage points below Average across published towns and cities in England
£84,532 above Average across published towns and cities in England
£75,422 above Average across published towns and cities in England
The scale is logarithmic, with marks at 100 m, 1 km and 10 km.
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Homes & housing costs · Higher than most
£2,765
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Council Tax bands and local charges · 2026-27
Homes & housing costs · Higher than most
£1,843
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Council Tax bands and local charges · 2026-27
Homes & housing costs · Higher than most
£5,530
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Council Tax bands and local charges · 2026-27
Homes & housing costs · Lower than most
61.8%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
Home energy certificates · Higher than most
73
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Energy Performance of Buildings data · Lodgements to 2026-08-17
Home energy certificates · Lower than most
8 points
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Energy Performance of Buildings data · Lodgements to 2026-08-17
Home energy certificates · Higher than most
100.0%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Energy Performance of Buildings data · Lodgements to 2026-08-17
Home energy certificates · Lower than most
179 kWh/m²/yr
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Energy Performance of Buildings data · Lodgements to 2026-08-17
Home energy certificates · Lower than most
2.4 t/yr
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Energy Performance of Buildings data · Lodgements to 2026-08-17
Home energy certificates · Lower than most
£446 a year
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Energy Performance of Buildings data · Lodgements to 2026-08-17
Air, land & environment · Higher than most
1
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Public Registers for environmental information · 2026-08-24
Health & care · Lower than most
9.4%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Quality and Outcomes Framework · 2024-25
Health & care · Higher than most
9
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Care Quality Commission register · 01 September 2026
Health & care · Higher than most
86.3%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
GP Patient Survey 2026 · 2026
Health & care · Higher than most
12
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Care Quality Commission register · 01 September 2026
Health & care · Higher than most
36
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Care Quality Commission register · 01 September 2026
Health & care · Higher than most
99.5%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
GP Patient Survey 2026 · 2026
Health & care · Lower than most
39.9%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
GP Patient Survey 2026 · 2026
Health & care · Higher than most
39.2%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
GP Patient Survey 2026 · 2026
Transport & getting around · Higher than most
20
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
STATS19 road safety open data · 2021 to 2025
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
250
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme · 2026-10-02
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
212
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme · 2026-10-02
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
184
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme · 2026-10-02
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
95.6%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme · 2026-10-02
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
71
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme · 2026-10-02
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
5
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
4
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
5
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
4
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
13
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
16
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
19
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
2
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Shops, food & amenities · Higher than most
3
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Every figure belongs to one of these groups, so you always know whether you are reading about the whole place, a neighbourhood, or the wider council area.
108
Whole town
Totals and figures for the town boundary
42
Neighbourhood range
Lowest, median and highest across local areas
401
Around the centre
A representative location in the town
99
Wider council area
Named council areas around the town
The small numbers after figure labels refer to this key. They show how a figure was made, not how accurate it is. Open any figure to see its source, date and important limits.
Published council-wide context for councils linked to Dorchester (Dorset), not a finding about the whole place or a property.
These records are published for councils linked to known active postcodes in this place. The councils cover a wider area: a listed designation is not a finding that it intersects this town or any property. The list may not be exhaustive. AQMAs are management designations, not measured pollution concentrations, property exposure or clean-air charging zones. Absence of a designation is not evidence of clean air. Great Britain only; Northern Ireland mapping is not included.
Dorset · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
An area encompassing the south side of the A35 through the village of Chideock, and any buildings and their associated curtilage within 15 metres of the road centreline.
Official UK-AIR designation recordRegister snapshot: 2026-10-20. Imported 25 October 2026.
Named records from the publisher’s mapped dataset intersecting the official Dorchester (Dorset) settlement outline, including boundary contact.
These are named records in the publisher’s mapped 2021 Nitrate Vulnerable Zones dataset whose polygons intersect this place’s current official mapped settlement outline, including boundary-only contact. This does not mean the whole town or any property is in a zone. NVZ rules concern agricultural land management, not household restrictions or a measurement of nitrate or drinking-water safety. Absence of a listed record is not evidence of clean water. Historical/type and status labels are reproduced without interpreting their current legal force. England only; separate Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented.
Dataset reference period: 2021. Imported 19 October 2026.
Original published categories whose polygons intersect the official Dorchester (Dorset) settlement outline, including boundary contact.
These are original category codes and definitions from the retained Source Protection Zones (Merged) dataset whose polygons intersect this place’s official mapped settlement outline, including boundary-only contact. This is not a whole-town or property designation, a finding about a drinking-water supply, or evidence of contamination, water quality or risk. These definitions do not identify individual supplies. Dataset dates do not establish current legal status. Absence of a listed category does not establish that land or a property is outside a zone. England only; separate Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented. Precautionary groundwater abstraction and land-use designation at a postcode centroid, not an address-level finding or drinking-water quality result. Outside a mapped zone does not establish clean or unprotected groundwater. Welsh zones and the separate Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented.
Zone 1 — inner protection zone, within a 50-day groundwater travel time of the abstraction
Zone 2 — outer protection zone, within a 400-day groundwater travel time of the abstraction
Zone 3 — total catchment, the whole area of ground needed to support the abstraction
Dataset reference period: 2026-03-06. Downloaded 19 October 2026. Imported 19 October 2026.
Broadband and mobile connectivity
Ofcom publishes these fixed-broadband, full-fibre take-up and mobile coverage profiles for named local and unitary authorities, rather than for town boundaries. They are shown as wider council-area context for Dorchester (Dorset); availability figures are provider predictions, not measurements at every address.
These highlights come from complete all-premises and residential broadband profiles, both published full-fibre take-up measures, the complete 2G, 3G, 4G, voice, 5G and standalone-5G network-count profiles, and the premises and grid-pixel counts used as the mobile basis. View every published broadband, full-fibre and mobile value.
Published source details for this wider council-area context:
650 sourced figures are listed here with the source, period and geography. Open a topic above for comparisons and detailed explanations.