Schools
43 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 12 secondary schools. Merley First School is the nearest published school at 415 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH21 1XZ
Bearwood & Merley · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 1XZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 1
- Latitude
- 50.782462
- Longitude
- -1.970154
- British National Grid easting
- 402,200
- British National Grid northing
- 98,100
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
- E00078036
- Lower layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 001D · E01015434
- 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
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 43
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 12
- 415 m
Merley First School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
South West Regional Assessment Centre
Special post 16 institution
- 1.4 km
Canford School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 292
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 127
- Anti social behaviour 64
- Criminal damage and arson 19
- Other theft 18
- Vehicle crime 16
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH21 1 residents
- 10,115
Age bands in BH21 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13%
- 1,341 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- 883 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.5%
- 1,810 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- 2,741 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 34.4%
- 3,551 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.
GP practices
5
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
2.9 km
THE HARVEY PRACTICE
18 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81046
2.9 km
CANFORD HEATH GROUP PRACT
9 MITCHELL ROAD, CANFORD HEATH, POOLE, BH17 8UE
ODS code J81013
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 64 m
Huntingdon Drive
BCT · Merley
- 65 m
Huntingdon Drive
BCT · Merley
- 216 m
Selkirk Close
BCT · Merley
- 235 m
Selkirk Close
BCT · Merley
- 291 m
Countess Close
BCT · Merley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 001D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,657 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
292 published events cover 12 months, averaging 24 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 127 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.