Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Swanage Primary School is the nearest published school at 621 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH19 1AL
Swanage · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Swanage
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset
- Postcode district
- BH19
- Postcode sector
- BH19 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH19 1AL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1997
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH19
- Postcode sector
- BH19 1
- Latitude
- 50.611595
- Longitude
- -1.960368
- British National Grid easting
- 402,900
- British National Grid northing
- 79,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Swanage · E05012722
- Parish or community
- E04003483
- Westminster constituency
- South Dorset · E14001485
- Output area
- E00103821
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 042B · E01020479
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 042 · E02004268
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 BH19
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 621 m
Swanage Primary School
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- 1.2 km
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Swanage
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- 1.7 km
Swanage St Mark's Church of England Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 386
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 161
- Anti social behaviour 77
- Shoplifting 37
- Criminal damage and arson 36
- Other theft 22
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH19 1 residents
- 4,325
Age bands in BH19 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 13.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 41.9%
417 residents
317 residents
595 residents
1,149 residents
1,789 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
SWANAGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
RAILWAY STATION APPROACH, SWANAGE, BH19 1HB
ODS code J81010
190 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mowlem Court
BCT · Swanage
- 0.1 miles
Mowlem Court
BCT · Swanage
- 0.1 miles
Gilbert Road
BCT · Swanage
- 0.1 miles
Swanage (Swanage Railway)
PLT · Swanage
- 0.1 miles
Swanage (Swanage Railway)
MET · Swanage
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 042B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,316 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
386 published events cover 12 months, averaging 32.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 161 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.