BH20 5FB

West Purbeck · Dorset · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: West Purbeck
Local authority: Dorset
Constituency: South Dorset
Postcode district: BH20
Postcode sector: BH20 5

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
BH20 5FD	0 m
BH20 5RL	77 m
BH20 5RZ	77 m
BH20 5RT	116 m
BH20 5SG	141 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: BH20 5FB
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 September 2023
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: BH
Postcode district: BH20
Postcode sector: BH20 5
Latitude: 50.625524
Longitude: -2.250033
British National Grid easting: 382,410
British National Grid northing: 80,678

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: South West · E12000009
Local authority district: Dorset · E06000059
Electoral ward: West Purbeck · E05012728
Parish or community: E04003488
Westminster constituency: South Dorset · E14001485
Output area: E00103876
Lower layer super output area: Dorset 035A · E01020489
Middle layer super output area: Dorset 035 · E02004266

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

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 1
Primary: 1
Secondary: 0

Lulworth and Winfrith CofE Primary School

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632 m

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 42
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Other theft 11
Violence and sexual offences 11
Anti social behaviour 7
Public order 4
Criminal damage and arson 3

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: Not supplied
Postcode households: Not supplied
Residents per household: Not available
BH20 5 residents: 4,051

Age bands in BH20 5

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 11.5%
Age 15 to 24: 8.6%
Age 25 to 44: 16.1%
Age 45 to 64: 31%
Age 65 and over: 32.9%

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+: 0%
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.

Nearby transport

War Memorial

BCT · West Lulworth
0.1 miles
War Memorial

BCT · West Lulworth
0.1 miles
Castle Inn

BCT · West Lulworth
0.2 miles
Castle Inn

BCT · West Lulworth
0.2 miles
Lulworth Cove

BCT · Lulworth Cove
0.4 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 035A, 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

5 of 10

Overall England rank

15,847 of 33,755

Income: 8 of 10
Employment: 8 of 10
Education and skills: 6 of 10
Health and disability: 7 of 10
Crime: 7 of 10
Housing and services: 1 of 10
Living environment: 1 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

Schools

1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Lulworth and Winfrith CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 632 m.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

42 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 11 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.