BH3 postcode district

BH3 holds 130 live postcodes around Bournemouth, in "Bournemouth.

No listed town or village has its centre in BH3; the nearest are on the neighbouring districts below.

Wards

Westminster constituency

Every BH3 postcode falls in Bournemouth West.

Deprivation

The middle postcode here sits in decile 8 of the English Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021-Census LSOAs), where decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods and 10 the least. 0% of this district's postcodes sit in the most deprived three deciles, 52% in the least deprived three.

Deprivation deciles describe the LSOA neighbourhood each postcode sits in, weighted by postcodes rather than by people, because the postcode file carries no population. A district where the deprived neighbourhoods are densely populated will read better here than it would per resident.

Neighbouring districts in the BH area

BH1 · BH2 · BH4 · BH5 · BH6 · BH7 · BH8 · BH9 · BH10 · BH11 · BH12 · BH13 · BH14 · BH15 · BH16 · BH17 · BH18 · BH19 · BH20 · BH21 · BH22 · BH23 · BH24 · BH25 · BH31

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcode data is the ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026 edition; counts are live postcodes with a usable location. Northern Ireland postcodes carry a separate licence and are not included; Scotland joins when the site's Scottish coverage does.