Property market
The five-year median is £350,000 from 2 recorded sales in BH16 5RH. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Dorset is £325,410 in June 2026, up 1.6% year on year.
BH16 5RH
Lytchett Matravers & Upton · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Poole
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole
- Postcode district
- BH16
- Postcode sector
- BH16 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH16 5RH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 1987
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH16
- Postcode sector
- BH16 5
- Latitude
- 50.739086
- Longitude
- -2.042783
- British National Grid easting
- 397,077
- British National Grid northing
- 93,277
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Lytchett Matravers & Upton · E05012706
- Parish or community
- E04003478
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole · E14001363
- Output area
- E00103805
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 028E · E01020475
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 028 · E02004264
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 BH16
Property
31 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 9, Holly Close, Poole, BH16 5RH | 16 July 2024 | £375,000 |
| 19, Holly Close, Poole, BH16 5RH | 5 January 2024 | £325,000 |
| 10, Holly Close, Poole, BH16 5RH | 3 August 2018 | £290,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 8
- 438 m
Upton Junior School
Academy converter
- 504 m
Upton Infant School
Academy converter
- 915 m
Yarrells Preparatory School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 357
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 142
- Anti social behaviour 78
- Vehicle crime 34
- Criminal damage and arson 26
- Burglary 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 53
- Postcode households
- 21
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- BH16 5 residents
- 11,163
26 female, 27 male
Age bands in BH16 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.6%
2,050 residents
1,168 residents
2,648 residents
2,898 residents
2,275 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH16 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
4
within 5 km
THE ADAM PRACTICE
306 BLANDFORD ROAD, HAMWORTHY, POOLE, BH15 4JQ
ODS code J81006
3.0 km
THE BIRCHWOOD PRACTICE
NORTHMEAD DRIVE, CREEKMOOR, POOLE, BH17 7XW
ODS code J81087
3.1 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
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Beacon Park Road
BCT · Upton
- 0.1 miles
Beacon Park Road
BCT · Upton
- 0.2 miles
Royal British Legion
BCT · Upton
- 0.3 miles
Seymours Cottages
BCT · Lytchett Minster
- 0.3 miles
Seymours Cottages
BCT · Lytchett Minster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 028E, 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
25,076 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 8 secondary schools. Upton Junior School is the nearest published school at 438 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
357 published events cover 12 months, averaging 29.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 142 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.