Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 5 secondary schools. Colehill First School is the nearest published school at 375 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH21 2LP
Colehill & Wimborne Minster East · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wimborne
- 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 2LP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1981
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 2
- Latitude
- 50.812464
- Longitude
- -1.950646
- British National Grid easting
- 403,573
- British National Grid northing
- 101,437
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
- E04013375
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole · E14001363
- Output area
- E00103254
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 017A · E01020377
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 017 · E02004249
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
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Heath Close, Wimborne, BH21 2LP | 15 December 2011 | £385,000 |
| 6, Heath Close, Wimborne, BH21 2LP | 11 May 2006 | £360,000 |
| 4, Heath Close, Wimborne, BH21 2LP | 18 May 2005 | £370,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 5
- 375 m
Colehill First School
Academy converter
- 720 m
Hayeswood First School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
St Michael's Church of England Middle School, Colehill
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 170
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 65
- Anti social behaviour 29
- Shoplifting 26
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Burglary 10
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 19
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- BH21 2 residents
- 10,255
8 female, 11 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH21 2 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
5
within 5 km
THE QUARTER JACK SURGERY
RODWAYS CORNER, WIMBORNE, BH21 1AP
ODS code J81034
2.8 km
WALFORD MILL MEDICAL CENTRE
KNOBCROOK ROAD, WIMBORNE, BH21 1NL
ODS code J81077
2.8 km
ORCHID HOUSE SURGERY
FERNDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. MARYS ROAD, FERNDOWN, BH22 9HB
ODS code J81002
4.1 km
PENNY'S HILL PRACTICE
FERNDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. MARYS ROAD, FERNDOWN, BH22 9HB
ODS code J81061
4.1 km
WEST MOORS VILLAGE SURGERY
VERNON HOUSE, 164 STATION ROAD, WEST MOORS, FERNDOWN, BH22 0JB
ODS code J81022
4.6 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
- 0.0 miles
Heath Close
BCT · Colehill
- 0.0 miles
Heath Close
BCT · Colehill
- 0.1 miles
Brackenhill Road
BCT · Colehill
- 0.1 miles
Brackenhill Road
BCT · Colehill
- 0.2 miles
Sandy Close
BCT · Colehill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 017A, 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
32,558 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
170 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 65 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.