Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 1 secondary schools. Lytchett Minster School is the nearest published school at 222 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH16 6AP
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH16 6AP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH16
- Postcode sector
- BH16 6
- Latitude
- 50.740552
- Longitude
- -2.061675
- British National Grid easting
- 395,744
- British National Grid northing
- 93,441
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
- E00103799
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 028D · E01020474
- 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
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Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Langton Cottage, Post Green Road, Lytchett Minster, Poole, BH16 6AP | 30 March 2012 | £445,000 |
| Langton Cottage, Post Green Road, Lytchett Minster, Poole, BH16 6AP | 7 August 2007 | £465,000 |
| The Manse, Post Green Road, Lytchett Minster, Poole, BH16 6AP | 28 June 1996 | £125,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 1
- 222 m
Lytchett Minster School
Foundation school
- 1.7 km
Upton Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Upton Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 74
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 24
- Anti social behaviour 15
- Burglary 11
- Other theft 9
- Vehicle crime 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 37
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- BH16 6 residents
- 4,972
19 female, 18 male
Age bands in BH16 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.8%
723 residents
456 residents
887 residents
1,528 residents
1,601 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH16 6 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+
- 75%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 75%
- Gigabit-capable
- 75%
- 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
3
within 5 km
THE ADAM PRACTICE
306 BLANDFORD ROAD, HAMWORTHY, POOLE, BH15 4JQ
ODS code J81006
4.2 km
SANDFORD SURGERY
TYNEHAM CLOSE, SANDFORD, WAREHAM, BH20 7BQ
ODS code J81631
4.3 km
THE BIRCHWOOD PRACTICE
NORTHMEAD DRIVE, CREEKMOOR, POOLE, BH17 7XW
ODS code J81087
4.5 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
Lytchett Minster School
BCT · Post Green
- 0.3 miles
Parish Church
BCT · Lytchett Minster
- 0.3 miles
Parish Church
BCT · Lytchett Minster
- 0.4 miles
St. Peters Finger
BCT · Lytchett Minster
- 0.4 miles
St. Peters Finger
BCT · Lytchett Minster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 028D, 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
24,900 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
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
74 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 24 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.