Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Sopley Primary School is the nearest published school at 108 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH23 8EY
Bransgore, Burley, Sopley & Ringwood East · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West
- Postcode district
- BH23
- Postcode sector
- BH23 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH23 8EY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1987
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH23
- Postcode sector
- BH23 8
- Latitude
- 50.786737
- Longitude
- -1.771549
- British National Grid easting
- 416,200
- British National Grid northing
- 98,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Bransgore, Burley, Sopley & Ringwood East · E05014774
- Parish or community
- E04004585
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest West · E14001374
- Output area
- E00117197
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 016E · E01023063
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 016 · E02004794
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
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 108 m
Sopley Primary School
Community school
- 3.1 km
Bransgore Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.1 km
The Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy
Special post 16 institution
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 20
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Public order 3
- Burglary 2
- Other theft 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH23 8 residents
- 4,561
Age bands in BH23 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.4%
733 residents
358 residents
796 residents
1,271 residents
1,381 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
TWIN OAKS MEDICAL CENTRE
RINGWOOD ROAD, BRANSGORE, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 8AD
ODS code J82151
2.5 km
GROVE SURGERY
FAIRMILE ROAD, FAIRMILE, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 2FQ
ODS code J81646
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 1.1 miles
The Woolpack Inn
BCT · Sopley
- 1.2 miles
Beech Cottage
BCT · North Bockhampton
- 1.2 miles
Beech Cottage
BCT · North Bockhampton
- 1.2 miles
Horn Cottage
BCT · North Bockhampton
- 1.2 miles
Horn Cottage
BCT · North Bockhampton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 016E, 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
20,545 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
20 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.