Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 12 secondary schools. Poole Grammar School is the nearest published school at 305 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH17 9BX
Canford Heath · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Canford Heath
- Local authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole
- Postcode district
- BH17
- Postcode sector
- BH17 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH17 9BX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1985
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH17
- Postcode sector
- BH17 9
- Latitude
- 50.754585
- Longitude
- -1.975842
- British National Grid easting
- 401,800
- British National Grid northing
- 95,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · E06000058
- Electoral ward
- Canford Heath · E05012657
- Parish or community
- E04013535
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole · E14001363
- Output area
- E00077927
- Lower layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 013C · E01015414
- Middle layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 013 · E02003197
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 BH17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 12
- 305 m
Poole Grammar School
Academy converter
- 557 m
Montacute School
Academy special converter
- 908 m
Ad Astra Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 958
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 400
- Anti social behaviour 185
- Other theft 75
- Criminal damage and arson 67
- Vehicle crime 49
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH17 9 residents
- 6,301
Age bands in BH17 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.1%
1,106 residents
651 residents
1,437 residents
1,786 residents
1,254 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
12
within 5 km straight-line
THE HADLEIGH PRACTICE
HADLEIGH PRACTICE, 20 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81041
1.4 km
THE HARVEY PRACTICE
18 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81046
1.4 km
CANFORD HEATH GROUP PRACT
9 MITCHELL ROAD, CANFORD HEATH, POOLE, BH17 8UE
ODS code J81013
1.6 km
THE BIRCHWOOD PRACTICE
NORTHMEAD DRIVE, CREEKMOOR, POOLE, BH17 7XW
ODS code J81087
2.3 km
THE ROSEMARY HEALTH CTR
2 ROSEMARY GARDENS, POOLE, BH12 3HF
ODS code J81036
2.6 km
EVERGREEN OAK SURGERY
43 COMMERCIAL ROAD, PARKSTONE, POOLE, BH14 0HU
ODS code J81086
3.7 km
SHORE MEDICAL
MANSFIELD ROAD, PARKSTONE, POOLE, BH14 0DJ
ODS code J81012
3.7 km
POOLE TOWN SURGERY
36 PARKSTONE ROAD, POOLE, BH15 2PG
ODS code J81064
3.9 km
THE NEWMAN PRACTICE (DR NEWMANS SURGERY)
THE SURGERY, 36 PARKSTONE ROAD, POOLE, BH15 2PG
ODS code J81648
3.9 km
THE ADAM PRACTICE
306 BLANDFORD ROAD, HAMWORTHY, POOLE, BH15 4JQ
ODS code J81006
4.5 km
TALBOT MEDICAL CENTRE
63 KINSON ROAD, WALLISDOWN, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 4BX
ODS code J81033
4.8 km
THE QUARTER JACK SURGERY
RODWAYS CORNER, WIMBORNE, BH21 1AP
ODS code J81034
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Edgarton Road
BCT · Canford Heath
- 0.1 miles
Sandhills Close
BCT · Canford Heath
- 0.1 miles
Steeple Close
BCT · Canford Heath
- 0.1 miles
Sandhills Close
BCT · Canford Heath
- 0.1 miles
Thorn Road
BCT · Canford Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 013C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,847 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
958 published events cover 12 months, averaging 79.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 400 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.