Schools
58 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 13 secondary schools. Ad Astra Infant School is the nearest published school at 471 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH17 9ET
Canford Heath · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Poole
- 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 9ET
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1981
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH17
- Postcode sector
- BH17 9
- Latitude
- 50.753837
- Longitude
- -1.967223
- British National Grid easting
- 402,408
- British National Grid northing
- 94,917
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
- E00077940
- Lower layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 013A · E01015412
- 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
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 47, Culliford Crescent, Poole, BH17 9ET | 30 June 2016 | £283,000 |
| 47, Culliford Crescent, Poole, BH17 9ET | 12 December 2013 | £225,000 |
| 49, Culliford Crescent, Poole, BH17 9ET | 4 August 2009 | £315,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 58
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 13
- 471 m
Ad Astra Infant School
Academy converter
- 579 m
Magna Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 708 m
Haymoor Junior School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 970
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 388
- Anti social behaviour 208
- Other theft 75
- Criminal damage and arson 70
- Shoplifting 53
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 11
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- BH17 9 residents
- 6,301
6 female, 5 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH17 9 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
12
within 5 km straight-line
CANFORD HEATH GROUP PRACT
9 MITCHELL ROAD, CANFORD HEATH, POOLE, BH17 8UE
ODS code J81013
1.4 km
THE HADLEIGH PRACTICE
HADLEIGH PRACTICE, 20 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81041
2.0 km
THE HARVEY PRACTICE
18 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81046
2.0 km
THE ROSEMARY HEALTH CTR
2 ROSEMARY GARDENS, POOLE, BH12 3HF
ODS code J81036
2.1 km
THE BIRCHWOOD PRACTICE
NORTHMEAD DRIVE, CREEKMOOR, POOLE, BH17 7XW
ODS code J81087
2.7 km
SHORE MEDICAL
MANSFIELD ROAD, PARKSTONE, POOLE, BH14 0DJ
ODS code J81012
3.3 km
EVERGREEN OAK SURGERY
43 COMMERCIAL ROAD, PARKSTONE, POOLE, BH14 0HU
ODS code J81086
3.4 km
POOLE TOWN SURGERY
36 PARKSTONE ROAD, POOLE, BH15 2PG
ODS code J81064
3.8 km
THE NEWMAN PRACTICE (DR NEWMANS SURGERY)
THE SURGERY, 36 PARKSTONE ROAD, POOLE, BH15 2PG
ODS code J81648
3.8 km
TALBOT MEDICAL CENTRE
63 KINSON ROAD, WALLISDOWN, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 4BX
ODS code J81033
4.2 km
THE ADAM PRACTICE
306 BLANDFORD ROAD, HAMWORTHY, POOLE, BH15 4JQ
ODS code J81006
4.8 km
KINSON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
440 KINSON ROAD, KINSON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 5EY
ODS code J81045
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Marshwood Avenue
BCT · Canford Heath
- 0.1 miles
Marshwood Avenue
BCT · Canford Heath
- 0.1 miles
Portesham Way
BCT · Canford Heath
- 0.1 miles
Portesham Way
BCT · Canford Heath
- 0.2 miles
Knowlton Road
BCT · Canford Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 013A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,820 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
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
970 published events cover 12 months, averaging 80.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 388 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.