Sandford

Sandford, a settlement of just under 3,000 to the North east of Wareham, has grown significantly since 1960.

Communications

Sandford is located just to the north east of Wareham on the A351 between Wareham Town and the A35 north west of Poole. The nearest mainline stations on the Weymouth to Waterloo line are Holton Heath and Wareham.

People

Latest population figure (2011 Census) for Sandford (Wareham St Martin parish) = 2,774

Age	Sandford (number)	Sandford (%)	Dorset-DCC area (%)	England & Wales (%)
0-4	131	4.7	4.7	6.2
5-9	131	4.7	4.8	5.6
10-14	147	5.3	5.6	5.8
15-19	176	6.3	5.8	6.3
20-24	144	5.2	4.7	6.8
25-29	105	3.8	4.1	6.8
30-34	106	3.8	4.3	6.6
35-39	148	5.3	5.2	6.7
40-44	199	7.2	6.6	7.3
45-49	234	8.4	7.3	7.3
50-54	199	7.2	6.9	6.4
55-59	198	7.1	6.6	5.7
60-64	212	7.6	8.0	6.0
65-69	194	7.0	6.9	4.8
70-74	140	5.0	5.6	3.9
75-79	134	4.8	4.9	3.2
80-84	106	3.8	3.9	2.4
85+	70	2.5	3.9	2.2
total	2,774	100	100	100

Selected age groups

Age	Sandford(number)	Sandford(%)	Dorset-DCC area (%)	England & Wales (%)
Young people 0 to 17	529	19.1	18.8	21.3
Young adults 18 to 29	305	11.0	10.9	16.2
Older people 65 plus	644	23.2	25.2	16.4

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), 2011 Census

Historic population

Year	1921	1931	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011
Sandford	530	770	1,300	2,110	2,740	3,370	2,480	2,750	2,774

Source: ONS

Housing growth

(Sandford)

Year	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Housing development	3	1	-	2	3	5	1	0	0	0

The 2011 Census records 1,179 dwellings in Sandford. Since 2001, a further 0 have been built giving a total of 1,179 dwellings.
At March 2012, a further 0 units has permission and 0 are allocated in the local plan.

Note: Figures now allow for losses from demolition, redevelopment etc. Method revised 2009

Average house prices

Dwelling type	Sandford -average price July-Sept 2010	Sandford -average price July-Sept 2012	Sandford -Number of sales July-Sept 2012
Detached	n/a	£323,100	10
Semi-detached	n/a	£208,500	4
Terraced	£252,487	0	0
Flats/maisonettes	n/a	0	0

Land Registry average prices. (Prices may be affected by low number of sales) Based on postcode sector BH20 7

Tenure - 2011 Census

% of all households

Area	Owner occupied (%)	Shared ownership (%)	Social rented (%)	Private rented (%)	Living rent free (%)
Sandford	74.8	0.6	13.2	9.7	1.8

Source: ONS

Second/holiday homes, Feb 2010

Total dwellings on Council Tax Register	1,155
Total number of second homes	11
Second homes as a % of total dwellings	1.0

Source: Council Tax Register (parish figure, rounded)

Crime

- domestic burglaries

Rate per 1,000 households

Area	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12
Sandford	2.6	6.1	4.3
DCC Dorset	3.8	3.7	3.4
South West	7.6	7.2	7.0
England and Wales	11.6	11.1	10.5

Note: Due to a small number of burglaries - rates for small geographical areas can vary significantly from year to year.
Source: Dorset County Council.

-other sources of crime data

Access the Police Sandford Crime Mapping (opens in a new window) where you can find crime data on a month by month basis (starting December 2010) mapped to neighbourhood and street level. This looks at the crime types of burglary, anti-social behaviour, robbery, vehicle crime, violent crime and other crime. Note this comprehensive and up-to-date database only looks at numbers of crimes and not crime rates for individual crimes. It does give an overall crime rate (per 1,000 people) for the neighbourhood.

Index of deprivation, 2010

(Figures show Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) ranking out of 247 LSOAs in Dorset with 1 being the most deprived)

SOA Name	Multiple	Income	Employment	Health	Education	Housing & Services	Crime	Living Environment
Sandford North & Holton Heath	97	145	132	105	161	37	80	67
Sandford South	168	111	125	165	75	148	206	167

LSOA = Lower Super Output Area (minimum 400 households or 1,000 population). Click here for detailed information and mapping of the The Index of Deprivation, 2010

Source: DCLG

Poverty Indicators: Housing/Council Tax Benefit: March2013

Settlement	Benefit Population	Total Population	% Benefit Population (% of total settlement population)
Alderholt	282	3,171	8.9%
Beaminster	547	3,136	17.4%
Bere Regis	305	1,745	17.5%
Blandford	1,657	10,325	16.0%
Bridport	2,414	13,568	17.8%
Burton	631	4,177	15.1%
Charminster/Charlton Down	379	2,940	12.9%
Chickerell	895	5,515	16.2%
Christchurch	7,747	47,700	16.2%
Colehill	538	6,907	7.8%
Corfe Castle	190	1,355	14.0%
Corfe Mullen	948	10,133	9.4%
Crossways	385	2,267	17.0%
Dorchester	2,987	19,060	15.7%
Ferndown	2,300	17,839	12.9%
Gillingham	1,697	11,756	14.4%
Lyme Regis	527	3,671	14.4%
Lytchett Matravers	370	3,424	10.8%
Lytchett Minster/Upton	1,338	7,983	16.8%
Marnhull	245	1,998	12.3%
Portland	2,880	12,844	22.4%
Sandford	381	2,774	13.7%
Shaftesbury	969	7,314	13.2%
Sherborne	1,567	9,523	16.5%
St Leonards & St Ives	536	6,859	7.8%
Stalbridge	333	2,698	12.3%
Sturminster Marshall	199	1,969	10.1%
Sturminster Newton	664	4,292	15.5%
Swanage	1,571	9,601	16.4%
Verwood	1,653	14,852	11.1%
Wareham	907	5,496	16.5%
West Moors	981	7,561	13.0%
Weymouth	11,079	52,256	21.2%
Wimborne	1,268	6,790	18.7%
Wool	771	5,310	14.5%
Dorset ( DCC area)	-	-	-

Source: DCC

Socio-economic classifications: 2010 ACORN

Classification %	Dorset	Sandford
Wealthy Achievers	40.1	32.2
Urban Prosperity	7.1	0.0
Comfortably Off	33.2	55.9
Moderate Means	9.2	3.0
Hard Pressed	10.2	9.0
unclassified	0.2	0.0

ACORN is a geodemographic segmentation of the UK's population which segments small neighbourhoods, postcodes, or consumer households into five categories, 17 groups and 56 types.
The five higher level categories "wealthy achievers", "urban prosperity","comfortably off", "moderate means" and "hard pressed" are shown above.

Ethnicity (%) - 2011Census

	Sandford	Purbeck	Dorset (DCC area)
% white British	97.0	96.2	95.5
% Black and minority ethnic groups (BME)	3.0	3.8	4.5

Source: Office for National Statistics, 2011 Census

Country of birth (%) - 2011 Census

	Sandford	Purbeck	Dorset (DCC area)
% born in England	92.2	91.2	91.0
% born rest of UK	3.4	3.4	3.4
% born in Rep of IRE	0.2	0.4	0.4
% born EU (member countries in 2001)	1.3	1.7	1.3
% born EU (Accession countries April 2001 to March 2011)	0.4	0.6	0.7
% born elsewhere	2.5	2.6	3.1

Source: Office for National Statistics, 2011 Census

Health - 2011 Census (% of population)

Health Limiting day-to-day Activities

	Sandford	Purbeck	Dorset (DCC area)
Day-to-day activities limited a lot (%)	8.1	8.2	8.6
limited a little(%)	10.8	11.2	11.5
not limited(%)	81.1	80.5	79.9
limited a lot: Age 16 to 64(%)	3.3	2.9	2.9
limited a little: Age 16 to 64(%)	4.3	4.5	4.5
not limited: Age 16 to 64(%)	52.8	52.0	51.1

General Health

	Sandford	Purbeck	Dorset (DCC area)
Very good health(%)	45.3	45.0	44.6
Good health(%)	35.8	35.9	35.9
Fair health(%)	13.7	14.1	14.5
Bad health(%)	4.4	4.0	3.9
Very bad health(%)	0.8	1.0	1.1

Provision of Unpaid Care

	Sandford	Purbeck	Dorset (DCC area)
Provides no unpaid care(%)	87.0	87.3	88.1
Provides 1 to 19 hours unpaid care a week(%)	8.8	8.7	8.1
Provides 20 to 49 hours unpaid care a week(%)	1.5	1.5	1.3
Provides 50 or more hours unpaid care a week(%)	2.6	2.5	2.5

Source: ONS 2011 Census

Education

Purbeck Pyramid Area:

Schools	Number of schools
First	13
Infant	0
Junior	0
Primary	0
Middle	4
Secondary	1
Upper	0
Special	0

Area

Approx. 'built-up' area = 154 hectares (380 acres) plus 80 hectares (278 acres) including the holiday park and industrial estate.

Local authority revenue

Council tax band D for Year	Council tax payable
12/13	£1,602.59
11/12	-
10/11	£1,602.95

Unemployment % (persons)

Sandford (St Martin Ward)

- Proportion of resident population aged 16-64 and actual number

Year	Male	Female	Total
July 2004	-	-	-
July 2005	-	-	-
July 2006	-	-	-
July 2007	-	-	-
July 2008	-	-	-
July 2009	-	-	-
July 2010	-	-	-
July 2011	1.8 (15)	1.1 (9)	1.5 (24)

Of July 2010 unemployment figures, the long-term unemployed = %
Of July 2011 unemployment figures, the long-term unemployed = 12.5%

Rates for wards from 2011 onwards are calculated using the mid-2010 resident population aged 16-64. # = confidential

The wider economy of the area

To see an economic profile of the wider Purbeck area follow this link to the Purbeck Economy & Labour Market Profile 2011 (pdf, 1008kb) (opens in a new window) .

Employment - 2010

Total number of people working in the area: 2,100 (St Martin Ward)

Work pattern	percentage
Full-time	74%
Part-time	26%

Type of employment	%
Production & Construction	50
Distribution, accommodation and food	31
Other market services	10
Public administration, defence, education and health	8
Other services	2