Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 8 secondary schools. Poole High School is the nearest published school at 487 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH15 2DX
Poole Town · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Poole Town
- Local authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Poole
- Postcode district
- BH15
- Postcode sector
- BH15 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH15 2DX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- 1 November 2016
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH15
- Postcode sector
- BH15 2
- Latitude
- 50.720316
- Longitude
- -1.981809
- British National Grid easting
- 401,380
- British National Grid northing
- 91,189
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · E06000058
- Electoral ward
- Poole Town · E05012674
- Parish or community
- E04013535
- Westminster constituency
- Poole · E14001429
- Output area
- E00180441
- Lower layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 044H · E01034282
- Middle layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 044 · E02003208
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 BH15
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 8
- 487 m
Poole High School
Academy converter
- 582 m
Old Town Infant School and Nursery
Academy converter
- 805 m
Longfleet Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,471
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 829
- Anti social behaviour 531
- Criminal damage and arson 203
- Shoplifting 197
- Vehicle crime 139
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH15 2 residents
- 7,275
Age bands in BH15 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.7%
1,051 residents
685 residents
1,897 residents
1,693 residents
1,655 residents
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.
GP practices
10
within 5 km straight-line
POOLE TOWN SURGERY
36 PARKSTONE ROAD, POOLE, BH15 2PG
ODS code J81064
455 m
THE NEWMAN PRACTICE (DR NEWMANS SURGERY)
THE SURGERY, 36 PARKSTONE ROAD, POOLE, BH15 2PG
ODS code J81648
455 m
EVERGREEN OAK SURGERY
43 COMMERCIAL ROAD, PARKSTONE, POOLE, BH14 0HU
ODS code J81086
1.7 km
THE ADAM PRACTICE
306 BLANDFORD ROAD, HAMWORTHY, POOLE, BH15 4JQ
ODS code J81006
2.0 km
THE BIRCHWOOD PRACTICE
NORTHMEAD DRIVE, CREEKMOOR, POOLE, BH17 7XW
ODS code J81087
2.5 km
CANFORD HEATH GROUP PRACT
9 MITCHELL ROAD, CANFORD HEATH, POOLE, BH17 8UE
ODS code J81013
2.7 km
SHORE MEDICAL
MANSFIELD ROAD, PARKSTONE, POOLE, BH14 0DJ
ODS code J81012
2.9 km
THE ROSEMARY HEALTH CTR
2 ROSEMARY GARDENS, POOLE, BH12 3HF
ODS code J81036
3.3 km
THE HADLEIGH PRACTICE
HADLEIGH PRACTICE, 20 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81041
4.6 km
THE HARVEY PRACTICE
18 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81046
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Serpentine Road
BCT · Poole
- 0.1 miles
Barclays
BCT · Poole
- 0.1 miles
Poole Rail Station
RLY · Poole
- 0.1 miles
Poole Rail Station
RSE · Poole
- 0.1 miles
Barclays set down only
BCT · Poole
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 044H, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,847 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,471 published events cover 12 months, averaging 205.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 829 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.