Poole

What is it like to live in Poole?

Homes sold for a typical £338,100 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 2,397 of the 3,130 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1,000 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 169 of its 3,226 postcodes. It has 28 primary schools and 9 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Parkstone (Dorset), 1.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Poole?

Homes in Poole sold for a typical £338,100 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 1,778 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £343,000 from 2,191 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £440,000 689 sales
• Semi-detached £330,000 363 sales
• Terraced £287,500 267 sales
• Flat or maisonette £225,000 459 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole BH15 district, Poole's main postcode district: a typical £325,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Poole: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Poole?

92 of the 3,226 postcodes now in use in Poole came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 15 of the 2,191 homes sold in Poole were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BH15 district, Under 1%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Poole?

Ofcom reports on 3,130 of the 3,226 postcodes in Poole. At 2,397 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Poole at risk of flooding?

169 of the 3,226 postcodes in Poole have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 1,000 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Poole?

The open schools at the postcodes in Poole (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Poole?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Poole is Parkstone (Dorset) Rail Station, 1.2 km away in a straight line.

• Parkstone (Dorset) Rail Station Railway station 1.2 kmWalk
• Poole Rail Station Railway station 2.1 kmCycle
• Branksome Rail Station Railway station 2.8 kmCycle

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Poole?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Poole, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Evergreen Oak Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01202 747496 800 mWalk
• Shore Medical Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01202 741370 1.2 kmCycle
• Canford Heath Group Pract Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01202 772540 1.3 kmCycle
• The Rosemary Health Ctr Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01202 723372 1.3 kmCycle
• Poole Town Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2020, over 3 years old · Phone 01202 670111 1.7 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Poole safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 2,111 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Poole over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: drugs 45, bicycle theft 18, robbery 18, other crime 14, possession of weapons 11, theft from the person 6.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Poole?

Council

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Parliamentary constituencies

Poole (2,284), Mid Dorset and North Poole (507) and Bournemouth West (435)

Police force area

Dorset

Region

South West

Country

England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.