Schools
39 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 7 secondary schools. The Stable School is the nearest published school at 482 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH23 6BQ
Commons · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Christchurch
- Ward
- Commons
- Local authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Christchurch
- Postcode district
- BH23
- Postcode sector
- BH23 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH23 6BQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH23
- Postcode sector
- BH23 6
- Latitude
- 50.762093
- Longitude
- -1.793518
- British National Grid easting
- 414,659
- British National Grid northing
- 95,855
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · E06000058
- Electoral ward
- Commons · E05012659
- Parish or community
- E04012814
- Westminster constituency
- Christchurch · E14001171
- Output area
- E00103193
- Lower layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 002D · E01020365
- Middle layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 002 · E02004236
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cresswell, Dudmoor Lane, Christchurch, BH23 6BQ | 28 September 2018 | £249,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 39
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 7
- 482 m
The Stable School
Other independent special school
- 1.4 km
Twynham Primary School
Free schools
- 1.8 km
Burton Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 151
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 49
- Anti social behaviour 39
- Burglary 13
- Criminal damage and arson 12
- Vehicle crime 11
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- BH23 6 residents
- 741
3 female, 4 male
Age bands in BH23 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.8%
78 residents
61 residents
99 residents
229 residents
218 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH23 6 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
GROVE SURGERY
FAIRMILE ROAD, FAIRMILE, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 2FQ
ODS code J81646
2.0 km
STOUR SURGERY
49 BARRACK ROAD, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 1PA
ODS code J81066
3.0 km
LITTLEDOWN SURGERY
HAREWOOD CRESCENT, LITTLEDOWN, BOURNEMOUTH, BH7 7BU
ODS code J81067
3.6 km
WOODLEA HOUSE SURGERY
2A BRADPOLE ROAD, STROUDEN PARK, BOURNEMOUTH, BH8 9NX
ODS code J81633
3.7 km
CHRISTCHURCH MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHRISTCHURCH MEDICAL PRAC, 1 PUREWELL CROSS ROAD, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 3AF
ODS code J81056
3.7 km
FARMHOUSE SURGERY
CHRISTCHURCH MED CENTRE, 1 PUREWELL CROSS ROAD, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 3AF
ODS code J81057
3.7 km
SOUTHBOURNE PRACTICE
17 BEAUFORT ROAD, BOURNEMOUTH, BH6 5BF
ODS code J81059
4.1 km
BEAUFORT ROAD SURGERY
21 BEAUFORT ROAD, SOUTHBOURNE, BOURNEMOUTH, BH6 5AJ
ODS code J81018
4.1 km
THE MARINE & OAKRIDGE PARTNERSHIP
MARINE SURGERY, 29 BELLE VUE RD, BOSCOMBE, BOURNEMOUTH, BH6 3DB
ODS code J81049
4.5 km
TWIN OAKS MEDICAL CENTRE
RINGWOOD ROAD, BRANSGORE, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 8AD
ODS code J82151
4.5 km
JAMES FISHER MEDICAL CENTRE
4 TOLPUDDLE GARDENS, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 3LQ
ODS code J81047
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Lynton Crescent
BCT · Blackwater
- 0.5 miles
Hestan Close
BCT · Blackwater
- 0.5 miles
Marlow Drive Shops
BCT · Blackwater
- 0.6 miles
Marlow Drive
BCT · Fairmile
- 0.6 miles
Marlow Drive
BCT · Fairmile
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 002D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,954 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
151 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 49 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.