Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Eaglewood School is the nearest published school at 516 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH25 5PB
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 5PB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 November 2016
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH25
- Postcode sector
- BH25 5
- Latitude
- 50.753772
- Longitude
- -1.673343
- British National Grid easting
- 423,139
- British National Grid northing
- 94,960
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
- E00116961
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 020C · E01023019
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 020 · E02004798
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
- 516 m
The Eaglewood School
Free schools alternative provision
- 763 m
The Arnewood School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
New Milton Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,016
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 411
- Criminal damage and arson 109
- Public order 81
- Anti social behaviour 81
- Shoplifting 79
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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
COASTAL MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
MILTON MEDICAL CENTRE, AVENUE ROAD, NEW MILTON, BH25 5JP
ODS code J82007
1.1 km
HIGHCLIFFE MEDICAL CENTRE
248 LYMINGTON ROAD, HIGHCLIFFE, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 5ET
ODS code J81028
2.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Stem Lane
BCT · New Milton
- 0.1 miles
Stem Lane
BCT · New Milton
- 0.2 miles
Brownsea Close
BCT · New Milton
- 0.3 miles
Walkford Lane
BCT · New Milton
- 0.3 miles
Walkford Lane
BCT · New Milton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 020C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,603 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 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
1,016 published events cover 12 months, averaging 84.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 411 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.