Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Eaglewood School is the nearest published school at 667 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH25 6QT
Barton & Becton · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- New Milton
- Ward
- Barton & Becton
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West
- Postcode district
- BH25
- Postcode sector
- BH25 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH25 6QT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH25
- Postcode sector
- BH25 6
- Latitude
- 50.744917
- Longitude
- -1.671349
- British National Grid easting
- 423,284
- British National Grid northing
- 93,976
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Barton & Becton · E05014773
- Parish or community
- E04004581
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest West · E14001374
- Output area
- E00116761
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 022A · E01022981
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 022 · E02004800
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
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Dunford Close, New Milton, BH25 6QT | 2 October 2020 | £365,000 |
| 3, Dunford Close, New Milton, BH25 6QT | 25 September 2019 | £380,000 |
| 1, Dunford Close, New Milton, BH25 6QT | 17 August 2015 | £262,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 2
- 667 m
The Eaglewood School
Free schools alternative provision
- 827 m
The Arnewood School
Academy converter
- 836 m
New Milton Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 972
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 405
- Criminal damage and arson 89
- Public order 79
- Shoplifting 75
- Anti social behaviour 73
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- BH25 6 residents
- 6,644
2 female, 4 male
Age bands in BH25 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 35.9%
876 residents
569 residents
1,325 residents
1,699 residents
2,504 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BH25 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+
- 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
COASTAL MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
MILTON MEDICAL CENTRE, AVENUE ROAD, NEW MILTON, BH25 5JP
ODS code J82007
1.6 km
HIGHCLIFFE MEDICAL CENTRE
248 LYMINGTON ROAD, HIGHCLIFFE, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 5ET
ODS code J81028
2.2 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
- 0.1 miles
The House Martin
BCT · Old Milton
- 0.1 miles
The House Martin
BCT · Old Milton
- 0.1 miles
The House Martin
BCT · Old Milton
- 0.2 miles
Seacroft Avenue
BCT · Barton on Sea
- 0.2 miles
Eldon Avenue
BCT · Barton on Sea
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 022A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,408 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
972 published events cover 12 months, averaging 81 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 405 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.