Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 6 secondary schools. Lytchett Minster School is the nearest published school at 677 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH16 6JA
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH16 6JA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2009
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH16
- Postcode sector
- BH16 6
- Latitude
- 50.740756
- Longitude
- -2.049077
- British National Grid easting
- 396,633
- British National Grid northing
- 93,463
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
- E00103797
- 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
Explore BH16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 6
- 677 m
Lytchett Minster School
Foundation school
- 914 m
Upton Junior School
Academy converter
- 986 m
Upton Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 239
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 98
- Anti social behaviour 48
- Vehicle crime 22
- Burglary 21
- Other theft 19
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- 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%
723 residents
456 residents
887 residents
1,528 residents
1,601 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
3.5 km
THE BIRCHWOOD PRACTICE
NORTHMEAD DRIVE, CREEKMOOR, POOLE, BH17 7XW
ODS code J81087
3.6 km
THE HADLEIGH PRACTICE
HADLEIGH PRACTICE, 20 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81041
4.5 km
THE HARVEY PRACTICE
18 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81046
4.5 km
SANDFORD SURGERY
TYNEHAM CLOSE, SANDFORD, WAREHAM, BH20 7BQ
ODS code J81631
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
South Lytchett Manor
BCT · Lytchett Minster
- 0.0 miles
South Lytchett Manor
BCT · Lytchett Minster
- 0.0 miles
Seymours Cottages
BCT · Lytchett Minster
- 0.0 miles
Seymours Cottages
BCT · Lytchett Minster
- 0.3 miles
Beacon Park Road
BCT · Upton
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
239 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 98 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.