Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 5 secondary schools. Allenbourn Middle School is the nearest published school at 759 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH21 4FY
Wimborne Minster · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wimborne Minster
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH21 4FY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 4
- Latitude
- 50.809667
- Longitude
- -1.986827
- British National Grid easting
- 401,024
- British National Grid northing
- 101,125
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Wimborne Minster · E05012730
- Parish or community
- E04013393
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole · E14001363
- Output area
- E00103273
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 017C · E01020380
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 5
- 759 m
Allenbourn Middle School
Academy converter
- 834 m
Wimborne First School and Nursery
Academy converter
- 893 m
Dumpton School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 572
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 212
- Anti social behaviour 119
- Shoplifting 76
- Criminal damage and arson 48
- Other theft 31
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH21 4 residents
- 3,288
Age bands in BH21 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.2%
500 residents
302 residents
648 residents
877 residents
665 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
2
within 5 km
WALFORD MILL MEDICAL CENTRE
KNOBCROOK ROAD, WIMBORNE, BH21 1NL
ODS code J81077
517 m
THE QUARTER JACK SURGERY
RODWAYS CORNER, WIMBORNE, BH21 1AP
ODS code J81034
1.3 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
- 0.4 miles
Knobcrook Road
BCT · Wimborne Minster
- 0.4 miles
Allenbourn School
BCT · Wimborne Minster
- 0.6 miles
Onslow Gardens
BCT · Wimborne Minster
- 0.6 miles
Onslow Gardens
BCT · Wimborne Minster
- 0.6 miles
Wimborne Hospital
BCT · Wimborne Minster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 017C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,510 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
572 published events cover 12 months, averaging 47.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 212 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.