Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 4 secondary schools. Dumpton School is the nearest published school at 743 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH21 9YU
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH21 9YU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 2016
- Terminated
- 1 May 2017
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH21
- Postcode sector
- BH21 9
- Latitude
- 50.817778
- Longitude
- -1.982892
- British National Grid easting
- 401,301
- British National Grid northing
- 102,027
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
- E04013380
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole · E14001363
- Output area
- E00183066
- 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
- 15
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 4
- 743 m
Dumpton School
Other independent school
- 1.4 km
Beaucroft Foundation School
Foundation special school
- 1.4 km
St Michael's Church of England Middle School, Colehill
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 223
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 94
- Shoplifting 42
- Anti social behaviour 40
- Other theft 10
- Burglary 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
WALFORD MILL MEDICAL CENTRE
KNOBCROOK ROAD, WIMBORNE, BH21 1NL
ODS code J81077
1.5 km
THE QUARTER JACK SURGERY
RODWAYS CORNER, WIMBORNE, BH21 1AP
ODS code J81034
2.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Stocks Inn
BCT · Furzehill
- 0.2 miles
Stocks Inn
BCT · Furzehill
- 0.6 miles
Honeybrook Farm
BCT · Clapgate
- 0.6 miles
Honeybrook Farm
BCT · Clapgate
- 0.6 miles
Honeybrook Farm
BCT · Clapgate
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
223 published events cover 12 months, averaging 18.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 94 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.