Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 10 secondary schools. Talbot Heath School is the nearest published school at 932 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BH4 9EH
Westbourne & West Cliff · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth West
- Postcode district
- BH4
- Postcode sector
- BH4 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BH4 9EH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BH
- Postcode district
- BH4
- Postcode sector
- BH4 9
- Latitude
- 50.723088
- Longitude
- -1.900985
- British National Grid easting
- 407,085
- British National Grid northing
- 91,502
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · E06000058
- Electoral ward
- Westbourne & West Cliff · E05012680
- Parish or community
- E04013533
- Westminster constituency
- Bournemouth West · E14001116
- Output area
- E00077695
- Lower layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 040A · E01015371
- Middle layer super output area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 040 · E02006883
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 BH4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 10
- 932 m
Talbot Heath School
Other independent school
- 999 m
St Michael's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Victoria Education Centre
Non-maintained special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,097
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 901
- Anti social behaviour 521
- Shoplifting 494
- Vehicle crime 245
- Other theft 216
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BH4 9 residents
- 4,417
Age bands in BH4 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 32.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.9%
433 residents
364 residents
1,392 residents
1,017 residents
1,065 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
- 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
15
within 5 km
WESTBOURNE MEDICAL CENTRE
MILBURN ROAD, WESTBOURNE, BOURNEMOUTH, BH4 9HJ
ODS code J81014
178 m
VILLAGE SURGERY
GILLETT ROAD, TALBOT VILLAGE, POOLE, BH12 5BF
ODS code J81042
2.0 km
THE BANKS & BEARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
272 WIMBORNE ROAD, WINTON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH3 7AT
ODS code J81070
2.3 km
THE PANTON PRACTICE
14 GERVIS ROAD, BOURNEMOUTH, BH1 3EG
ODS code J81072
2.7 km
TALBOT MEDICAL CENTRE
63 KINSON ROAD, WALLISDOWN, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 4BX
ODS code J81033
2.9 km
SHORE MEDICAL
MANSFIELD ROAD, PARKSTONE, POOLE, BH14 0DJ
ODS code J81012
3.0 km
DENMARK ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
37 DENMARK ROAD, WINTON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 1PB
ODS code J81625
3.2 km
ST ALBANS MEDICAL CENTRE
26-28 ST. ALBANS CRESCENT, CHARMINSTER, BOURNEMOUTH, BH8 9EW
ODS code J81062
3.5 km
THE ROSEMARY HEALTH CTR
2 ROSEMARY GARDENS, POOLE, BH12 3HF
ODS code J81036
3.7 km
CRESCENT PROVIDENCE SURGERY
12-14 WALPOLE ROAD, BOURNEMOUTH, BH1 4HA
ODS code J81634
4.0 km
EVERGREEN OAK SURGERY
43 COMMERCIAL ROAD, PARKSTONE, POOLE, BH14 0HU
ODS code J81086
4.0 km
MOORDOWN MEDICAL CENTRE
2A REDHILL CRESCENT, MOORDOWN, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 2XF
ODS code J81039
4.1 km
SHELLEY MANOR HOLDENHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
BEECHWOOD AVENUE, BOURNEMOUTH, BH5 1LX
ODS code J81021
4.7 km
CANFORD HEATH GROUP PRACT
9 MITCHELL ROAD, CANFORD HEATH, POOLE, BH17 8UE
ODS code J81013
4.9 km
KINSON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
440 KINSON ROAD, KINSON, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 5EY
ODS code J81045
4.9 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Grosvenor Road
BCT · Westbourne
- 0.1 miles
The Westbourne
BCT · Westbourne
- 0.1 miles
Grosvenor Road
BCT · Westbourne
- 0.1 miles
Post Office
BCT · Westbourne
- 0.1 miles
Westbourne Arcade
BCT · Westbourne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 040A, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,306 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
3,097 published events cover 12 months, averaging 258.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 901 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.