Schools
69 open schools are in scope, including 38 primary and 12 secondary schools. Talbot Primary School is the nearest published school at 383 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH12 5BJ
Alderney & Bourne Valley · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Poole
- Local authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth West
- Postcode district
- BH12
- Postcode sector
- BH12 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH12 5BJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH12
- Postcode sector
- BH12 5
- Latitude
- 50.746082
- Longitude
- -1.910972
- British National Grid easting
- 406,377
- British National Grid northing
- 94,058
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
- E00077758
- Lower layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 022D · E01015383
- Middle layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 022 · E02003200
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
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 347, Alder Road, Poole, BH12 5BJ | 9 May 2014 | £135,000 |
| 341, Alder Road, Poole, BH12 5BJ | 16 March 2004 | £182,500 |
| 349, First Floor Flat, Alder Road, Poole, BH12 5BJ | 22 October 1999 | £38,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 69
- Primary
- 38
- Secondary
- 12
- 383 m
Talbot Primary School
Academy converter
- 419 m
Langside School
Non-maintained special school
- 756 m
St Mark's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,336
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 850
- Anti social behaviour 419
- Shoplifting 272
- Criminal damage and arson 213
- Public order 128
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- BH12 5 residents
- 4,395
5 female, 5 male
Age bands in BH12 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 16.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.1%
734 residents
793 residents
1,121 residents
1,151 residents
953 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH12 5 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
15
within 5 km straight-line
TALBOT MEDICAL CENTRE
63 KINSON ROAD, WALLISDOWN, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 4BX
ODS code J81033
343 m
VILLAGE SURGERY
GILLETT ROAD, TALBOT VILLAGE, POOLE, BH12 5BF
ODS code J81042
1.2 km
THE BANKS & BEARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
272 WIMBORNE ROAD, WINTON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH3 7AT
ODS code J81070
2.3 km
DENMARK ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
37 DENMARK ROAD, WINTON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 1PB
ODS code J81625
2.5 km
KINSON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
440 KINSON ROAD, KINSON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 5EY
ODS code J81045
2.5 km
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL CENTRE
MILBURN ROAD, WESTBOURNE, BOURNEMOUTH, BH4 9HJ
ODS code J81014
2.6 km
THE ROSEMARY HEALTH CTR
2 ROSEMARY GARDENS, POOLE, BH12 3HF
ODS code J81036
2.6 km
MOORDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE
2A REDHILL CRESCENT, MOORDOWN, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 2XF
ODS code J81039
2.8 km
SHORE MEDICAL
MANSFIELD ROAD, PARKSTONE, POOLE, BH14 0DJ
ODS code J81012
3.0 km
ST ALBANS MEDICAL CENTRE
26-28 ST. ALBANS CRESCENT, CHARMINSTER, BOURNEMOUTH, BH8 9EW
ODS code J81062
3.6 km
CANFORD HEATH GROUP PRACT
9 MITCHELL ROAD, CANFORD HEATH, POOLE, BH17 8UE
ODS code J81013
3.8 km
JAMES FISHER MEDICAL CENTRE
4 TOLPUDDLE GARDENS, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 3LQ
ODS code J81047
3.9 km
EVERGREEN OAK SURGERY
43 COMMERCIAL ROAD, PARKSTONE, POOLE, BH14 0HU
ODS code J81086
4.2 km
THE PANTON PRACTICE
14 GERVIS ROAD, BOURNEMOUTH, BH1 3EG
ODS code J81072
4.4 km
WOODLEA HOUSE SURGERY
2A BRADPOLE ROAD, STROUDEN PARK, BOURNEMOUTH, BH8 9NX
ODS code J81633
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Roundabout
BCT · Wallisdown
- 0.0 miles
Roundabout
BCT · Wallisdown
- 0.0 miles
Tesco
BCT · Wallisdown
- 0.0 miles
Tesco
BCT · Wallisdown
- 0.1 miles
Aldi
BCT · Wallisdown
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 022D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,366 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
2,336 published events cover 12 months, averaging 194.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 850 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.