Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 11 secondary schools. Canford School is the nearest published school at 742 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH21 2GW
Colehill & Wimborne Minster East · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH21 2GW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 2
- Latitude
- 50.794384
- Longitude
- -1.961477
- British National Grid easting
- 402,811
- British National Grid northing
- 99,426
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Colehill & Wimborne Minster East · E05012691
- Parish or community
- E04013393
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole · E14001363
- Output area
- E00183059
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 021B · E01020427
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 021 · E02004252
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 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 11
- 742 m
Canford School
Other independent school
- 1.3 km
Merley First School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
St John's Church of England First School, Wimborne
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 511
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 213
- Anti social behaviour 104
- Criminal damage and arson 43
- Shoplifting 37
- Other theft 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH21 2 residents
- 10,255
Age bands in BH21 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.8%
1,889 residents
1,011 residents
2,323 residents
2,742 residents
2,627 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
6
within 5 km
THE QUARTER JACK SURGERY
RODWAYS CORNER, WIMBORNE, BH21 1AP
ODS code J81034
1.6 km
WALFORD MILL MEDICAL CENTRE
KNOBCROOK ROAD, WIMBORNE, BH21 1NL
ODS code J81077
2.3 km
THE HADLEIGH PRACTICE
HADLEIGH PRACTICE, 20 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81041
4.3 km
THE HARVEY PRACTICE
18 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81046
4.3 km
ORCHID HOUSE SURGERY
FERNDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. MARYS ROAD, FERNDOWN, BH22 9HB
ODS code J81002
4.8 km
PENNY'S HILL PRACTICE
FERNDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. MARYS ROAD, FERNDOWN, BH22 9HB
ODS code J81061
4.8 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Tops Nursery
BCT · Wimborne Minster
- 0.4 miles
Tops Nursery
BCT · Wimborne Minster
- 0.4 miles
Barnes Crescent
BCT · Wimborne Minster
- 0.4 miles
Parmiter Road
BCT · Wimborne Minster
- 0.4 miles
Parmiter Road
BCT · Wimborne Minster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 021B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,730 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 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
511 published events cover 12 months, averaging 42.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 213 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.