Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Millie College is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH16 6LW
Wareham · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wareham
- 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 6LW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH16
- Postcode sector
- BH16 6
- Latitude
- 50.717073
- Longitude
- -2.074180
- British National Grid easting
- 394,859
- British National Grid northing
- 90,831
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Wareham · E05012725
- Parish or community
- E04012326
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole · E14001363
- Output area
- E00103816
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 033A · E01020476
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 033 · E02004265
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
- 11
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.3 km
Millie College
Special post 16 institution
- 1.8 km
Sandford St Martin's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.9 km
Lytchett Minster School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 71
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 24
- Violence and sexual offences 21
- Burglary 7
- Criminal damage and arson 7
- Vehicle crime 4
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Gigabit-capable
- 80%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 80%
- 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
SANDFORD SURGERY
TYNEHAM CLOSE, SANDFORD, WAREHAM, BH20 7BQ
ODS code J81631
1.8 km
WAREHAM SURGERY
STRECHE ROAD, WAREHAM, BH20 4PG
ODS code J81011
4.5 km
THE ADAM PRACTICE
306 BLANDFORD ROAD, HAMWORTHY, POOLE, BH15 4JQ
ODS code J81006
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
- 0.4 miles
Holton Heath Rail Station
RSE · Holton Heath
- 0.4 miles
Holton Heath Rail Station
RLY · Holton Heath
- 0.5 miles
Blackhill Road Way
BCT · Sandford
- 0.5 miles
Holton Heath
BCT · Sandford
- 0.5 miles
Holton Heath
BCT · Sandford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 033A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,093 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
71 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 24 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.