Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 11 secondary schools. Broadstone First School is the nearest published school at 83 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH18 8AT
Broadstone · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Broadstone
- Local authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole
- Postcode district
- BH18
- Postcode sector
- BH18 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH18 8AT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH18
- Postcode sector
- BH18 8
- Latitude
- 50.762825
- Longitude
- -1.995150
- British National Grid easting
- 400,438
- British National Grid northing
- 95,916
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · E06000058
- Electoral ward
- Broadstone · E05012654
- Parish or community
- E04013534
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole · E14001363
- Output area
- E00077842
- Lower layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 004A · E01015395
- Middle layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 004 · E02003196
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 BH18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 45
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 11
- 83 m
Broadstone First School
Academy converter
- 719 m
Broadstone Middle School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.0 km
Springdale First School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 460
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 176
- Anti social behaviour 109
- Criminal damage and arson 33
- Burglary 28
- Public order 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH18 8 residents
- 5,108
Age bands in BH18 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 37.6%
506 residents
412 residents
679 residents
1,386 residents
1,795 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
10
within 5 km straight-line
THE HADLEIGH PRACTICE
HADLEIGH PRACTICE, 20 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81041
233 m
THE HARVEY PRACTICE
18 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81046
233 m
THE BIRCHWOOD PRACTICE
NORTHMEAD DRIVE, CREEKMOOR, POOLE, BH17 7XW
ODS code J81087
2.5 km
CANFORD HEATH GROUP PRACT
9 MITCHELL ROAD, CANFORD HEATH, POOLE, BH17 8UE
ODS code J81013
3.2 km
THE QUARTER JACK SURGERY
RODWAYS CORNER, WIMBORNE, BH21 1AP
ODS code J81034
4.0 km
THE ROSEMARY HEALTH CTR
2 ROSEMARY GARDENS, POOLE, BH12 3HF
ODS code J81036
4.3 km
WALFORD MILL MEDICAL CENTRE
KNOBCROOK ROAD, WIMBORNE, BH21 1NL
ODS code J81077
4.7 km
THE ADAM PRACTICE
306 BLANDFORD ROAD, HAMWORTHY, POOLE, BH15 4JQ
ODS code J81006
4.8 km
POOLE TOWN SURGERY
36 PARKSTONE ROAD, POOLE, BH15 2PG
ODS code J81064
5.0 km
THE NEWMAN PRACTICE (DR NEWMANS SURGERY)
THE SURGERY, 36 PARKSTONE ROAD, POOLE, BH15 2PG
ODS code J81648
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
St. Johns Church
BCT · Broadstone
- 0.1 miles
St. Johns Church
BCT · Broadstone
- 0.1 miles
United Reformed Church
BCT · Broadstone
- 0.1 miles
United Reformed Church
BCT · Broadstone
- 0.2 miles
Broadway
BCT · Broadstone
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 004A, 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
28,681 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
460 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 176 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.