Schools
64 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 12 secondary schools. The Lion Works School is the nearest published school at 386 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH12 4PG
Alderney & Bourne Valley · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth West
- Postcode district
- BH12
- Postcode sector
- BH12 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH12 4PG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH12
- Postcode sector
- BH12 4
- Latitude
- 50.753022
- Longitude
- -1.934874
- British National Grid easting
- 404,690
- British National Grid northing
- 94,828
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · E06000058
- Electoral ward
- Alderney & Bourne Valley · E05012649
- Parish or community
- E04013535
- Westminster constituency
- Bournemouth West · E14001116
- Output area
- E00077783
- Lower layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 008A · E01015379
- Middle layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 008 · E02003195
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BH12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 64
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 12
- 386 m
The Lion Works School
Other independent special school
- 598 m
Winchelsea School
Community special school
- 882 m
Manorside Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,826
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 668
- Anti social behaviour 322
- Criminal damage and arson 191
- Shoplifting 181
- Other theft 129
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- BH12 4 residents
- 9,471
6 female, 10 male
Age bands in BH12 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.6%
1,753 residents
987 residents
2,319 residents
2,235 residents
1,672 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH12 4 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
16
within 5 km
THE ROSEMARY HEALTH CTR
2 ROSEMARY GARDENS, POOLE, BH12 3HF
ODS code J81036
1.7 km
TALBOT MEDICAL CENTRE
63 KINSON ROAD, WALLISDOWN, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 4BX
ODS code J81033
1.9 km
CANFORD HEATH GROUP PRACT
9 MITCHELL ROAD, CANFORD HEATH, POOLE, BH17 8UE
ODS code J81013
2.4 km
SHORE MEDICAL
MANSFIELD ROAD, PARKSTONE, POOLE, BH14 0DJ
ODS code J81012
2.8 km
KINSON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
440 KINSON ROAD, KINSON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 5EY
ODS code J81045
2.9 km
VILLAGE SURGERY
GILLETT ROAD, TALBOT VILLAGE, POOLE, BH12 5BF
ODS code J81042
3.0 km
EVERGREEN OAK SURGERY
43 COMMERCIAL ROAD, PARKSTONE, POOLE, BH14 0HU
ODS code J81086
3.6 km
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL CENTRE
MILBURN ROAD, WESTBOURNE, BOURNEMOUTH, BH4 9HJ
ODS code J81014
4.0 km
THE BANKS & BEARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
272 WIMBORNE ROAD, WINTON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH3 7AT
ODS code J81070
4.2 km
DENMARK ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
37 DENMARK ROAD, WINTON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 1PB
ODS code J81625
4.2 km
THE HADLEIGH PRACTICE
HADLEIGH PRACTICE, 20 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81041
4.2 km
THE HARVEY PRACTICE
18 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81046
4.2 km
MOORDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE
2A REDHILL CRESCENT, MOORDOWN, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 2XF
ODS code J81039
4.3 km
POOLE TOWN SURGERY
36 PARKSTONE ROAD, POOLE, BH15 2PG
ODS code J81064
4.7 km
THE NEWMAN PRACTICE (DR NEWMANS SURGERY)
THE SURGERY, 36 PARKSTONE ROAD, POOLE, BH15 2PG
ODS code J81648
4.7 km
THE BIRCHWOOD PRACTICE
NORTHMEAD DRIVE, CREEKMOOR, POOLE, BH17 7XW
ODS code J81087
4.7 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Alderney West
BCT · Alderney
- 0.1 miles
Alderney West
BCT · Alderney
- 0.2 miles
Mountbatten Roundabout
BCT · Wallisdown
- 0.2 miles
Francis Avenue
BCT · West Howe
- 0.2 miles
Mountbatten Roundabout
BCT · Wallisdown
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 008A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,174 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,826 published events cover 12 months, averaging 152.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 668 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.