Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Durlston School is the nearest published school at 341 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH25 7AE
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 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH25 7AE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- 1 September 2025
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH25
- Postcode sector
- BH25 7
- Latitude
- 50.738899
- Longitude
- -1.651962
- British National Grid easting
- 424,655
- British National Grid northing
- 93,313
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
- E00116805
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 022D · E01022987
- 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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Becton Centre, The Fairway, Barton On Sea, New Milton, BH25 7AE | 9 December 1996 | £950,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 341 m
Durlston School
Other independent school
- 1.1 km
New Milton Infant School
Community school
- 1.2 km
New Milton Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 421
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 140
- Shoplifting 79
- Public order 42
- Other theft 28
- Criminal damage and arson 26
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH25 7 residents
- 6,629
Age bands in BH25 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 6.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 5.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 10.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 50.8%
444 residents
351 residents
651 residents
1,701 residents
3,247 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
2.0 km
HIGHCLIFFE MEDICAL CENTRE
248 LYMINGTON ROAD, HIGHCLIFFE, CHRISTCHURCH, BH23 5ET
ODS code J81028
3.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
The Fairway
BCT · Barton on Sea
- 0.1 miles
Becton Lane
BCT · Barton on Sea
- 0.2 miles
Arlington Court
BCT · Barton on Sea
- 0.2 miles
Danes Close
BCT · Barton on Sea
- 0.3 miles
Greenacre
BCT · Barton on Sea
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 022D, 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
32,006 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
- 0
- 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
421 published events cover 12 months, averaging 35.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 140 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.