Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. Mudeford Junior School is the nearest published school at 506 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH23 3RJ
Burton & Grange · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Burton & Grange
- Local authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Christchurch
- Postcode district
- BH23
- Postcode sector
- BH23 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH23 3RJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1986
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH23
- Postcode sector
- BH23 3
- Latitude
- 50.736327
- Longitude
- -1.746287
- British National Grid easting
- 418,000
- British National Grid northing
- 93,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · E06000058
- Electoral ward
- Burton & Grange · E05012655
- Parish or community
- E04012814
- Westminster constituency
- Christchurch · E14001171
- Output area
- E00103084
- Lower layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 024A · E01020346
- Middle layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 024 · E02004240
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 BH23
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 506 m
Mudeford Junior School
Community school
- 622 m
Somerford Primary School
Community school
- 777 m
Mudeford Community Infants' School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,037
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 388
- Anti social behaviour 222
- Shoplifting 103
- Criminal damage and arson 82
- Other theft 73
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH23 3 residents
- 9,208
Age bands in BH23 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.1%
1,448 residents
896 residents
1,937 residents
2,493 residents
2,151 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
CHRISTCHURCH MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHRISTCHURCH MEDICAL PRAC, 1 PUREWELL CROSS ROAD, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 3AF
ODS code J81056
934 m
FARMHOUSE SURGERY
CHRISTCHURCH MED CENTRE, 1 PUREWELL CROSS ROAD, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 3AF
ODS code J81057
934 m
STOUR SURGERY
49 BARRACK ROAD, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 1PA
ODS code J81066
2.5 km
HIGHCLIFFE MEDICAL CENTRE
248 LYMINGTON ROAD, HIGHCLIFFE, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 5ET
ODS code J81028
3.2 km
GROVE SURGERY
FAIRMILE ROAD, FAIRMILE, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 2FQ
ODS code J81646
3.3 km
THE MARINE & OAKRIDGE PARTNERSHIP
MARINE SURGERY, 29 BELLE VUE RD, BOSCOMBE, BOURNEMOUTH, BH6 3DB
ODS code J81049
4.5 km
SOUTHBOURNE PRACTICE
17 BEAUFORT ROAD, BOURNEMOUTH, BH6 5BF
ODS code J81059
4.9 km
BEAUFORT ROAD SURGERY
21 BEAUFORT ROAD, SOUTHBOURNE, BOURNEMOUTH, BH6 5AJ
ODS code J81018
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Airfield Way
BCT · Somerford
- 0.2 miles
Airfield Way
BCT · Somerford
- 0.3 miles
Grebe Close
BCT · Mudeford
- 0.3 miles
Trade Park
BCT · Somerford
- 0.3 miles
Grebe Close
BCT · Mudeford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 024A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,182 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
1,037 published events cover 12 months, averaging 86.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 388 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.