Schools
40 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 10 secondary schools. Parley First School is the nearest published school at 757 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH22 8RW
West Parley · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ferndown
- Ward
- West Parley
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Christchurch
- Postcode district
- BH22
- Postcode sector
- BH22 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH22 8RW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH22
- Postcode sector
- BH22 8
- Latitude
- 50.786031
- Longitude
- -1.892271
- British National Grid easting
- 407,690
- British National Grid northing
- 98,502
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- West Parley · E05012727
- Parish or community
- E04012461
- Westminster constituency
- Christchurch · E14001171
- Output area
- E00103383
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 024D · E01020402
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 024 · E02004253
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 BH22
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Heathlands Avenue, West Parley, Ferndown, BH22 8RW | 22 June 2021 | £600,000 |
| 21, Heathlands Avenue, West Parley, Ferndown, BH22 8RW | 20 May 2020 | £438,000 |
| 23, Heathlands Avenue, West Parley, Ferndown, BH22 8RW | 31 January 2020 | £420,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 40
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 10
- 757 m
Parley First School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Ferndown First School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Ferndown Middle School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 290
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 108
- Anti social behaviour 57
- Other theft 26
- Criminal damage and arson 24
- Burglary 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 31
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- BH22 8 residents
- 10,783
15 female, 16 male
Age bands in BH22 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 35.8%
1,370 residents
875 residents
1,717 residents
2,768 residents
3,749 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH22 8 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
9
within 5 km
ORCHID HOUSE SURGERY
FERNDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. MARYS ROAD, FERNDOWN, BH22 9HB
ODS code J81002
1.8 km
PENNY'S HILL PRACTICE
FERNDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. MARYS ROAD, FERNDOWN, BH22 9HB
ODS code J81061
1.8 km
KINSON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
440 KINSON ROAD, KINSON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 5EY
ODS code J81045
2.2 km
THE BARCELLOS FAMILY PRACTICE
TRICKETTS CROSS, CORBIN AVENUE, FERNDOWN, BH22 8AZ
ODS code J81621
2.8 km
MOORDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE
2A REDHILL CRESCENT, MOORDOWN, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 2XF
ODS code J81039
3.5 km
JAMES FISHER MEDICAL CENTRE
4 TOLPUDDLE GARDENS, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 3LQ
ODS code J81047
3.6 km
WEST MOORS VILLAGE SURGERY
VERNON HOUSE, 164 STATION ROAD, WEST MOORS, FERNDOWN, BH22 0JB
ODS code J81022
4.3 km
TALBOT MEDICAL CENTRE
63 KINSON ROAD, WALLISDOWN, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 4BX
ODS code J81033
4.3 km
DENMARK ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
37 DENMARK ROAD, WINTON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 1PB
ODS code J81625
4.5 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
Horns Inn
BCT · Dudsbury
- 0.3 miles
Horns Inn
BCT · Dudsbury
- 0.4 miles
Chapelgate Garage
BCT · West Parley
- 0.4 miles
Chapelgate Garage
BCT · West Parley
- 0.5 miles
Glenmoor Road Shops
BCT · Dudsbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 024D, 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
31,580 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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.
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
290 published events cover 12 months, averaging 24.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 108 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.