Schools
43 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 11 secondary schools. Merley First School is the nearest published school at 524 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH21 1TN
Bearwood & Merley · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wimborne
- Ward
- Bearwood & Merley
- Local authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH21 1TN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 1
- Latitude
- 50.783108
- Longitude
- -1.966763
- British National Grid easting
- 402,439
- British National Grid northing
- 98,172
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · E06000058
- Electoral ward
- Bearwood & Merley · E05012650
- Parish or community
- E04013535
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole · E14001363
- Output area
- E00078041
- Lower layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 001B · E01015432
- Middle layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 001 · E02003194
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 BH21
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 19, Selkirk Close, Merley, Wimborne, BH21 1TN | 19 February 2021 | £240,000 |
| 25, Selkirk Close, Merley, Wimborne, BH21 1TN | 18 April 2019 | £238,000 |
| 23, Selkirk Close, Merley, Wimborne, BH21 1TN | 19 December 2014 | £232,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 43
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 11
- 524 m
Merley First School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Canford School
Other independent school
- 1.6 km
South West Regional Assessment Centre
Special post 16 institution
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 334
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 144
- Anti social behaviour 74
- Criminal damage and arson 25
- Other theft 20
- Vehicle crime 20
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 54
- Postcode households
- 24
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- BH21 1 residents
- 10,115
27 female, 27 male
Age bands in BH21 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 34.4%
1,341 residents
883 residents
1,810 residents
2,741 residents
3,551 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH21 1 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
THE QUARTER JACK SURGERY
RODWAYS CORNER, WIMBORNE, BH21 1AP
ODS code J81034
2.0 km
WALFORD MILL MEDICAL CENTRE
KNOBCROOK ROAD, WIMBORNE, BH21 1NL
ODS code J81077
2.9 km
THE HADLEIGH PRACTICE
HADLEIGH PRACTICE, 20 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81041
3.1 km
THE HARVEY PRACTICE
18 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81046
3.1 km
CANFORD HEATH GROUP PRACT
9 MITCHELL ROAD, CANFORD HEATH, POOLE, BH17 8UE
ODS code J81013
4.6 km
KINSON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
440 KINSON ROAD, KINSON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 5EY
ODS code J81045
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Selkirk Close
BCT · Merley
- 0.0 miles
Selkirk Close
BCT · Merley
- 0.1 miles
Huntingdon Drive
BCT · Merley
- 0.2 miles
Cockerell Close
BCT · Merley
- 0.2 miles
Huntingdon Drive
BCT · Merley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 001B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,121 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
334 published events cover 12 months, averaging 27.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 144 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.