Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Bovington Academy is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH20 7PL
West Purbeck · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- West Purbeck
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset
- Postcode district
- BH20
- Postcode sector
- BH20 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH20 7PL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH20
- Postcode sector
- BH20 7
- Latitude
- 50.709402
- Longitude
- -2.227960
- British National Grid easting
- 384,000
- British National Grid northing
- 90,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- West Purbeck · E05012728
- Parish or community
- E04003490
- Westminster constituency
- South Dorset · E14001485
- Output area
- E00166076
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 035E · E01020493
- 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
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.7 km
Bovington Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.9 km
Harbour School Dorset
Free schools special
- 3.3 km
St Mary & St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 65
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 32
- Anti social behaviour 17
- Public order 8
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Drugs 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH20 7 residents
- 4,519
Age bands in BH20 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 28%
673 residents
401 residents
804 residents
1,350 residents
1,253 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+
- 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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
THE WELLBRIDGE PRACTICE
MEADOW LANE, WOOL, WAREHAM, BH20 6DR
ODS code J81025
3.4 km
BERE REGIS SURGERY
THE SURGERY, MANOR FARM ROAD, BERE REGIS, WAREHAM, BH20 7HB
ODS code J81020
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Alamein Road
BCT · Bovington
- 0.8 miles
Babcock Parking (Temp)
BCT · Bovington Camp
- 0.9 miles
Monkey World Car Park
BCT · Bovington Camp
- 0.9 miles
Shopping Centre
BCT · Bovington Camp
- 0.9 miles
Shopping Centre
BCT · Bovington Camp
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 035E, 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
13,893 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
65 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 32 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.