Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 9 secondary schools. Rushcombe First School is the nearest published school at 517 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH21 3XZ
Corfe Mullen · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Corfe Mullen
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH21 3XZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 3
- Latitude
- 50.772429
- Longitude
- -2.014181
- British National Grid easting
- 399,096
- British National Grid northing
- 96,984
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Corfe Mullen · E05012692
- Parish or community
- E04003365
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole · E14001363
- Output area
- E00103283
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 025A · E01020382
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 025 · E02004254
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
- 34
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 9
- 517 m
Rushcombe First School
Community school
- 656 m
Corfe Hills School
Academy converter
- 760 m
Henbury View First School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 373
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 136
- Anti social behaviour 93
- Criminal damage and arson 35
- Shoplifting 25
- Other theft 21
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH21 3 residents
- 11,140
Age bands in BH21 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.3%
1,764 residents
1,337 residents
2,190 residents
3,069 residents
2,535 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 straight-line
THE HADLEIGH PRACTICE
HADLEIGH PRACTICE, 20 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81041
1.9 km
THE HARVEY PRACTICE
18 KIRKWAY, BROADSTONE, BH18 8EE
ODS code J81046
1.9 km
THE QUARTER JACK SURGERY
RODWAYS CORNER, WIMBORNE, BH21 1AP
ODS code J81034
3.6 km
THE BIRCHWOOD PRACTICE
NORTHMEAD DRIVE, CREEKMOOR, POOLE, BH17 7XW
ODS code J81087
3.8 km
WALFORD MILL MEDICAL CENTRE
KNOBCROOK ROAD, WIMBORNE, BH21 1NL
ODS code J81077
4.1 km
CANFORD HEATH GROUP PRACT
9 MITCHELL ROAD, CANFORD HEATH, POOLE, BH17 8UE
ODS code J81013
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
South Road
BCT · Corfe Mullen
- 0.1 miles
Co-op Store
BCT · Corfe Mullen
- 0.1 miles
South Road
BCT · Corfe Mullen
- 0.2 miles
Co-op Store
BCT · Corfe Mullen
- 0.2 miles
Mount Pleasant
BCT · Corfe Mullen
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 025A, 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
30,823 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
373 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 136 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.