Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Purbeck School is the nearest published school at 171 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH20 4FD
Wareham · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH20 4FD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2011
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH20
- Postcode sector
- BH20 4
- Latitude
- 50.682790
- Longitude
- -2.120737
- British National Grid easting
- 391,566
- British National Grid northing
- 87,023
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Wareham · E05012725
- Parish or community
- E04012327
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole · E14001363
- Output area
- E00183065
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 033D · E01020486
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 033 · E02004265
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 BH20
Property
18 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Worgret Gardens, Wareham, BH20 4FD | 8 July 2020 | £1,300,000 |
| 9, Worgret Gardens, Wareham, BH20 4FD | 30 January 2020 | £675,000 |
| Casterbridge, 5a, Worgret Gardens, Wareham, BH20 4FD | 29 August 2019 | £640,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 171 m
The Purbeck School
Academy converter
- 390 m
Wareham St Mary Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Stoborough Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 312
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 108
- Anti social behaviour 75
- Shoplifting 38
- Criminal damage and arson 26
- Other theft 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 24
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- BH20 4 residents
- 5,846
15 female, 9 male
Age bands in BH20 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.6%
814 residents
471 residents
1,114 residents
1,626 residents
1,857 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH20 4 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
2
within 5 km
WAREHAM SURGERY
STRECHE ROAD, WAREHAM, BH20 4PG
ODS code J81011
575 m
SANDFORD SURGERY
TYNEHAM CLOSE, SANDFORD, WAREHAM, BH20 7BQ
ODS code J81631
3.3 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Purbeck School Grounds
BCT · Wareham
- 0.1 miles
Purbeck School & Leisure Centre
BCT · Wareham
- 0.1 miles
Purbeck School & Leisure Centre
BCT · Wareham
- 0.2 miles
Police Station
BCT · Wareham
- 0.3 miles
Police Station
BCT · Wareham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 033D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,865 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
312 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 108 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.