BH23
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Christchurch and Highcliffe, in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and New Forest.
Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an BH23 postcode. How census figures are added up
Radon Affected Area by postcode district
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 2% of people in BH23 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How BH23 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is BH23 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in BH23 at a rate of 54.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 75.8 per 1,000 people across the BH postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 287 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in BH23.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (951), anti-social behaviour (806) and other crime (426).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in BH23 was 53.5 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in BH23, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so BH23 has no single figure. Of its 35 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in BH23
MPs for BH23
- Sir Christopher ChopeConservativeMP for Christchurch89% of BH23’s postcodes
- Sir Desmond SwayneConservativeMP for New Forest West11% of BH23’s postcodes
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Middle areas in BH238
Postcode sectors in BH239
Councils BH23 covers2
Towns in BH231
Postcode districts next to BH238
Nearest rail stations2
More in the BH postcode area2
BH23 in brief
BH23 is a postcode district covering Christchurch and Highcliffe, in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and New Forest.
About 55,086 people lived in BH23 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £420,000 in 2025 across 956 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 54.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in BH23 was £420,000 in 2025.
BH23 had 55,267 usual residents at the census.
About 2% of people in BH23 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In BH23, 85.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.