Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Ringwood Junior School is the nearest published school at 593 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH24 3FW
Ringwood South · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ringwood South
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West
- Postcode district
- BH24
- Postcode sector
- BH24 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH24 3FW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH24
- Postcode sector
- BH24 3
- Latitude
- 50.841718
- Longitude
- -1.775585
- British National Grid easting
- 415,897
- British National Grid northing
- 104,713
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Ringwood South · E05014791
- Parish or community
- E04004582
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest West · E14001374
- Output area
- E00183084
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 012C · E01023069
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 012 · E02004790
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 BH24
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 593 m
Ringwood Junior School
Community school
- 855 m
Ringwood Church of England Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
- 886 m
Ringwood School Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 870
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 364
- Anti social behaviour 93
- Criminal damage and arson 84
- Shoplifting 70
- Vehicle crime 59
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH24 3 residents
- 5,187
Age bands in BH24 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.7%
790 residents
478 residents
1,048 residents
1,548 residents
1,267 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.
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
2
within 5 km
RINGWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE CLOSE, RINGWOOD, BH24 1JY
ODS code J82039
1.1 km
CORNERWAYS MEDICAL CENTRE
5 PARKERS CLOSE, NORTH POULNER, RINGWOOD, BH24 1SD
ODS code J82150
1.4 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Gardner Road
BCT · Ringwood
- 0.2 miles
Gardner Road
BCT · Ringwood
- 0.2 miles
Parsonage Barn Lane
BCT · Ringwood
- 0.2 miles
Parsonage Barn Lane
BCT · Ringwood
- 0.2 miles
Crow Arch Lane
BCT · Ringwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 012C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,086 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
870 published events cover 12 months, averaging 72.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 364 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.