Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Ballard School is the nearest published school at 112 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH25 5JL
Ballard · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ballard
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West
- Postcode district
- BH25
- Postcode sector
- BH25 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH25 5JL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2004
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH25
- Postcode sector
- BH25 5
- Latitude
- 50.762458
- Longitude
- -1.657317
- British National Grid easting
- 424,265
- British National Grid northing
- 95,931
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Ballard · E05014772
- Parish or community
- E04004581
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest West · E14001374
- Output area
- E00116787
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 018A · E01022984
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 018 · E02004796
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 BH25
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 112 m
Ballard School
Other independent school
- 1.3 km
Ashley Junior School
Foundation school
- 1.4 km
The Arnewood School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,122
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 487
- Criminal damage and arson 106
- Public order 94
- Shoplifting 86
- Anti social behaviour 85
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH25 5 residents
- 12,364
Age bands in BH25 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.9%
1,646 residents
1,069 residents
2,340 residents
3,363 residents
3,760 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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 straight-line
COASTAL MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
MILTON MEDICAL CENTRE, AVENUE ROAD, NEW MILTON, BH25 5JP
ODS code J82007
672 m
HIGHCLIFFE MEDICAL CENTRE
248 LYMINGTON ROAD, HIGHCLIFFE, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 5ET
ODS code J81028
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Mornington Court
BCT · New Milton
- 0.2 miles
Mornington Court
BCT · New Milton
- 0.3 miles
Gainsborough Avenue
BCT · New Milton
- 0.3 miles
Gainsborough Avenue
BCT · New Milton
- 0.4 miles
Fernglade
BCT · New Milton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 018A, 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
25,461 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
1,122 published events cover 12 months, averaging 93.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 487 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.