Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 4 secondary schools. Highcliffe School is the nearest published school at 965 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH23 4XR
Mudeford, Stanpit & West Highcliffe · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Christchurch
- Postcode district
- BH23
- Postcode sector
- BH23 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH23 4XR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH23
- Postcode sector
- BH23 4
- Latitude
- 50.739446
- Longitude
- -1.729746
- British National Grid easting
- 419,166
- British National Grid northing
- 93,351
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · E06000058
- Electoral ward
- Mudeford, Stanpit & West Highcliffe · E05012668
- Parish or community
- E04012815
- Westminster constituency
- Christchurch · E14001171
- Output area
- E00103231
- Lower layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 018B · E01020370
- Middle layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 018 · E02004239
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
- 24
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 4
- 965 m
Highcliffe School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Christchurch
Voluntary aided school
- 1.6 km
Mudeford Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 613
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 214
- Anti social behaviour 133
- Criminal damage and arson 61
- Other theft 52
- Shoplifting 49
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH23 4 residents
- 10,092
Age bands in BH23 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 39.5%
1,245 residents
700 residents
1,634 residents
2,703 residents
4,103 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
HIGHCLIFFE MEDICAL CENTRE
248 LYMINGTON ROAD, HIGHCLIFFE, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 5ET
ODS code J81028
2.0 km
CHRISTCHURCH MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHRISTCHURCH MEDICAL PRAC, 1 PUREWELL CROSS ROAD, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 3AF
ODS code J81056
2.1 km
FARMHOUSE SURGERY
CHRISTCHURCH MED CENTRE, 1 PUREWELL CROSS ROAD, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 3AF
ODS code J81057
2.1 km
STOUR SURGERY
49 BARRACK ROAD, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 1PA
ODS code J81066
3.7 km
GROVE SURGERY
FAIRMILE ROAD, FAIRMILE, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 2FQ
ODS code J81646
4.3 km
TWIN OAKS MEDICAL CENTRE
RINGWOOD ROAD, BRANSGORE, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 8AD
ODS code J82151
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Hoburne Park
BCT · Friars Cliff
- 0.0 miles
Hoburne Park
BCT · Friars Cliff
- 0.0 miles
Seaway Avenue
BCT · Friars Cliff
- 0.1 miles
Seaway Avenue
BCT · Friars Cliff
- 0.1 miles
The Runway Industrial Park
BCT · Somerford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 018B, 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
28,172 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
613 published events cover 12 months, averaging 51.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 214 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.