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](https://www.ons.gov.uk/resource?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/articles/censusmaps/2022-11-02/b178c24d.png)
Census maps
View Census 2021 data for Dorset on a map.
![Changes over time](https://www.ons.gov.uk/resource?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/articles/howyourareahaschangedin10yearscensus2021/2022-11-08/9724e5a9.png)
Changes over time
Read how Dorset has changed since the 2011 Census.
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Custom profiles
Build a custom area profile for Dorset using Census 2021 data.
![Area profiles](https://www.ons.gov.uk/resource?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/deathsathomeincreasedbyathirdin2020whiledeathsinhospitalsfellexceptforcovid19/2021-05-07/6a9221c2.png)
Area profiles
View Census 2021 data tables for Dorset on Nomis, an ONS service (external).
![Subnational indicators](https://www.ons.gov.uk/resource?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/articles/subnationalindicatorsexplorer/2022-01-06/888c269a.png)
Subnational indicators
Find out how Dorset compares on indicators such as weekly pay and healthy life expectancy.
![Mortgage calculator](https://www.ons.gov.uk/resource?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/articles/howaremonthlymortgagerepaymentschangingingreatbritain/2023-03-08/69aa5591.png)
Mortgage calculator
See how average house prices and changing interest rates affecting monthly mortgage repayments in Dorset.
![Census quiz](https://www.ons.gov.uk/resource?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/articles/playthecensus2021quizhowwelldoyouknowyourarea/2022-12-02/fb4bf171.png)
Census quiz
Take our quiz and test your knowledge of Dorset.
![Health index](https://www.ons.gov.uk/resource?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandwellbeing/articles/howhealthhaschangedinyourlocalarea/2022-03-18/eb698ff5.png)
Health index
See how Dorset compares to the rest of England on different health measures.
![Income deprivation](https://www.ons.gov.uk/resource?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/articles/mappingincomedeprivationatalocalauthoritylevel/2021-05-24/96c97858.png)
Income deprivation
Explore income deprivation in Dorset at a neighbourhood level.