Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 6 secondary schools. Ferndown First School is the nearest published school at 469 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH22 9BY
Ferndown North · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ferndown North
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Christchurch
- Postcode district
- BH22
- Postcode sector
- BH22 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH22 9BY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH22
- Postcode sector
- BH22 9
- Latitude
- 50.800401
- Longitude
- -1.892097
- British National Grid easting
- 407,700
- British National Grid northing
- 100,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Dorset · E06000059
- Electoral ward
- Ferndown North · E05012700
- Parish or community
- E04012463
- Westminster constituency
- Christchurch · E14001171
- Output area
- E00103317
- Lower layer super output area
- Dorset 018C · E01020392
- Middle layer super output area
- Dorset 018 · E02004250
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 6
- 469 m
Ferndown First School
Academy converter
- 581 m
Ferndown Middle School
Academy converter
- 844 m
Parley First School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 555
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 200
- Anti social behaviour 133
- Other theft 56
- Criminal damage and arson 46
- Shoplifting 33
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH22 9 residents
- 9,482
Age bands in BH22 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25%
- Age 65 and over
- 38.7%
1,155 residents
681 residents
1,722 residents
2,453 residents
3,794 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
ORCHID HOUSE SURGERY
FERNDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. MARYS ROAD, FERNDOWN, BH22 9HB
ODS code J81002
228 m
PENNY'S HILL PRACTICE
FERNDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE, ST. MARYS ROAD, FERNDOWN, BH22 9HB
ODS code J81061
228 m
THE BARCELLOS FAMILY PRACTICE
TRICKETTS CROSS, CORBIN AVENUE, FERNDOWN, BH22 8AZ
ODS code J81621
1.6 km
WEST MOORS VILLAGE SURGERY
VERNON HOUSE, 164 STATION ROAD, WEST MOORS, FERNDOWN, BH22 0JB
ODS code J81022
2.7 km
KINSON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
440 KINSON ROAD, KINSON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 5EY
ODS code J81045
3.7 km
JAMES FISHER MEDICAL CENTRE
4 TOLPUDDLE GARDENS, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 3LQ
ODS code J81047
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Dudsbury Avenue
BCT · Ferndown
- 0.1 miles
Town Centre
BCT · Ferndown
- 0.2 miles
Town Centre
BCT · Ferndown
- 0.2 miles
Dudsbury Avenue
BCT · Ferndown
- 0.2 miles
Carroll Avenue
BCT · Ferndown
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 018C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,563 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
555 published events cover 12 months, averaging 46.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 200 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.