Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 6 secondary schools. Upton Junior School is the nearest published school at 343 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH16 5YG
Lytchett Matravers & Upton · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 5YG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH16
- Postcode sector
- BH16 5
- Latitude
- 50.737494
- Longitude
- -2.042455
- British National Grid easting
- 397,100
- British National Grid northing
- 93,100
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
- E00103796
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 6
- 343 m
Upton Junior School
Academy converter
- 442 m
Upton Infant School
Academy converter
- 857 m
Yarrells Preparatory School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 364
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 142
- Anti social behaviour 81
- Vehicle crime 35
- Criminal damage and arson 27
- Burglary 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH16 5 residents
- 11,163
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
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
THE ADAM PRACTICE
306 BLANDFORD ROAD, HAMWORTHY, POOLE, BH15 4JQ
ODS code J81006
2.9 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
4.3 km
THE HARVEY PRACTICE
18 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81046
4.3 km
SANDFORD SURGERY
TYNEHAM CLOSE, SANDFORD, WAREHAM, BH20 7BQ
ODS code J81631
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Beacon Park Road
BCT · Upton
- 0.2 miles
Beacon Park Road
BCT · Upton
- 0.2 miles
Royal British Legion
BCT · Upton
- 0.3 miles
Roberts Way
BCT · Upton
- 0.3 miles
Roberts Way
BCT · Upton
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
364 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30.333 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.