Schools
62 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 10 secondary schools. Kings Bournemouth is the nearest published school at 188 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH2 6PN
Bournemouth Central · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bournemouth
- Ward
- Bournemouth Central
- Local authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth West
- Postcode district
- BH2
- Postcode sector
- BH2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH2 6PN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH2
- Postcode sector
- BH2 6
- Latitude
- 50.728811
- Longitude
- -1.876462
- British National Grid easting
- 408,815
- British National Grid northing
- 92,141
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · E06000058
- Electoral ward
- Bournemouth Central · E05012653
- Parish or community
- E04013533
- Westminster constituency
- Bournemouth West · E14001116
- Output area
- E00077248
- Lower layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 038A · E01015286
- Middle layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 038 · E02003188
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 BH2
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Arthur Close, Bournemouth, BH2 6PN | 29 May 2015 | £457,000 |
| 1, Arthur Close, Bournemouth, BH2 6PN | 3 September 2007 | £495,000 |
| 1, Arthur Close, Bournemouth, BH2 6PN | 15 October 2004 | £322,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 62
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 10
- 188 m
Kings Bournemouth
Other independent school
- 697 m
St Martin's School
Other independent school
- 826 m
Livingstone Academy Bournemouth
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,735
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,660
- Anti social behaviour 1,280
- Shoplifting 758
- Other theft 565
- Vehicle crime 518
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- BH2 6 residents
- 4,654
4 female, 5 male
Age bands in BH2 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 39.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.5%
353 residents
351 residents
1,524 residents
806 residents
831 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH2 6 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
18
within 5 km
THE BANKS & BEARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
272 WIMBORNE ROAD, WINTON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH3 7AT
ODS code J81070
1.2 km
THE PANTON PRACTICE
14 GERVIS ROAD, BOURNEMOUTH, BH1 3EG
ODS code J81072
1.3 km
ST ALBANS MEDICAL CENTRE
26-28 ST. ALBANS CRESCENT, CHARMINSTER, BOURNEMOUTH, BH8 9EW
ODS code J81062
1.8 km
VILLAGE SURGERY
GILLETT ROAD, TALBOT VILLAGE, POOLE, BH12 5BF
ODS code J81042
2.0 km
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL CENTRE
MILBURN ROAD, WESTBOURNE, BOURNEMOUTH, BH4 9HJ
ODS code J81014
2.0 km
DENMARK ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
37 DENMARK ROAD, WINTON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 1PB
ODS code J81625
2.0 km
CRESCENT PROVIDENCE SURGERY
12-14 WALPOLE ROAD, BOURNEMOUTH, BH1 4HA
ODS code J81634
2.2 km
SHELLEY MANOR HOLDENHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
BEECHWOOD AVENUE, BOURNEMOUTH, BH5 1LX
ODS code J81021
3.0 km
MOORDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE
2A REDHILL CRESCENT, MOORDOWN, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 2XF
ODS code J81039
3.0 km
TALBOT MEDICAL CENTRE
63 KINSON ROAD, WALLISDOWN, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 4BX
ODS code J81033
3.2 km
LITTLEDOWN SURGERY
HAREWOOD CRESCENT, LITTLEDOWN, BOURNEMOUTH, BH7 7BU
ODS code J81067
3.4 km
WOODLEA HOUSE SURGERY
2A BRADPOLE ROAD, STROUDEN PARK, BOURNEMOUTH, BH8 9NX
ODS code J81633
3.4 km
JAMES FISHER MEDICAL CENTRE
4 TOLPUDDLE GARDENS, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 3LQ
ODS code J81047
3.7 km
BEAUFORT ROAD SURGERY
21 BEAUFORT ROAD, SOUTHBOURNE, BOURNEMOUTH, BH6 5AJ
ODS code J81018
4.4 km
SOUTHBOURNE PRACTICE
17 BEAUFORT ROAD, BOURNEMOUTH, BH6 5BF
ODS code J81059
4.4 km
KINSON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
440 KINSON ROAD, KINSON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 5EY
ODS code J81045
4.6 km
SHORE MEDICAL
MANSFIELD ROAD, PARKSTONE, POOLE, BH14 0DJ
ODS code J81012
4.7 km
THE MARINE & OAKRIDGE PARTNERSHIP
MARINE SURGERY, 29 BELLE VUE RD, BOSCOMBE, BOURNEMOUTH, BH6 3DB
ODS code J81049
5.0 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
- 0.0 miles
Cavendish Road
BCT · Meyrick Park
- 0.1 miles
Dean Park Road
BCT · Meyrick Park
- 0.1 miles
Dean Park Road
BCT · Meyrick Park
- 0.1 miles
Cemetery Junction
BCT · Meyrick Park
- 0.1 miles
Cemetery Junction
BCT · Meyrick Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 038A, 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
21,057 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
7,735 published events cover 12 months, averaging 644.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,660 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.