BH16 6FP

Lytchett Matravers & Upton · Dorset · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Lytchett Matravers & Upton
Local authority: Dorset
Constituency: Mid Dorset and North Poole
Postcode district: BH16
Postcode sector: BH16 6

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
BH16 6FR	30 m
BH16 6AY	60 m
BH16 6DG	94 m
BH16 6BJ	99 m
BH16 6BP	176 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: BH16 6FP
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 2018
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: BH
Postcode district: BH16
Postcode sector: BH16 6
Latitude: 50.759556
Longitude: -2.086029
British National Grid easting: 394,028
British National Grid northing: 95,556

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: E04003477
Westminster constituency: Mid Dorset and North Poole · E14001363
Output area: E00103768
Lower layer super output area: Dorset 027C · E01020470
Middle layer super output area: Dorset 027 · E02004263

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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Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 10
Primary: 5
Secondary: 1

Lytchett Matravers Primary School

Academy converter
813 m
Graduately Developing Futures

Other independent special school
1.4 km
Lytchett Minster School

Foundation school
2.8 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 119
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 58
Anti social behaviour 17
Criminal damage and arson 16
Vehicle crime 6
Other theft 5

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 3
Postcode households: 1
Residents per household: 3.0
BH16 6 residents: 4,972

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%

This postcode contained 0.1% 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.

Nearby transport

Lytchett Matravers War Memorial

BCT · Lytchett Matravers
0.2 miles
Lytchett Matravers War Memorial

BCT · Lytchett Matravers
0.2 miles
Lytchett Matravers Library

BCT · Lytchett Matravers
0.3 miles
Lytchett Matravers Library

BCT · Lytchett Matravers
0.3 miles
Purbeck Road

BCT · Lytchett Matravers
0.4 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 027C, 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

9 of 10

Overall England rank

29,612 of 33,755

Income: 9 of 10
Employment: 9 of 10
Education and skills: 9 of 10
Health and disability: 10 of 10
Crime: 10 of 10
Housing and services: 3 of 10
Living environment: 10 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

Schools

10 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Lytchett Matravers Primary School is the nearest published school at 813 m.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

119 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 58 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.