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Highcliffe and Walkford

Civil parish in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

A civil parish in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole — Highcliffe and Walkford, E04012815. Every figure below describes that area, except where it is labelled as a comparison, or as a figure for a neighbourhood or a wider area.

Residents

13,725

13,725 usual residents. This is the figure published for the civil parish of Highcliffe and Walkford, not a sum of smaller areas.

Source
Nomis (ONS Census 2021, claimant count, ASHE, UK Business Counts), ONS / Durham University
Published as
ONS Census 2021 (Nomis PP002), parish boundary as at December 2022
Period
2021
Area
civil parish

ONS published this against the parish boundary current at December 2022. This place carries the same code in ONS's 2025 parish lookup, which attests that no statutory boundary change was made between those two vintages — not that the boundary has not moved, since a minor Ordnance Survey amendment is not recoded. Nor does the code show that no statutory change has been made since 2025. ONS plots properties by Unique Property Reference Number or postcode into the parish boundary; Nomis calls this UPRN-to-parish best-fit.

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Aged 65 or over

40%

5,535 of 13,722 residents, Census 2021

Aged 65 or over is the five oldest age bands in the census table, added together.

Compared with

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
22% 86,426 of 400,198 residents
England
18% 10,401,303 of 56,490,048 residents
Source
Nomis (ONS Census 2021, claimant count, ASHE, UK Business Counts), ONS / Durham University (TS007A)
Period
2021
Area
civil parish — measured at output area level and summed to this area

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Source
Nomis (ONS Census 2021, claimant count, ASHE, UK Business Counts), ONS / Durham University (TS007A)
Period
2021
Area
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, local authority; England, country

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Households owning their home

82%

5,392 of 6,565 households, Census 2021

Compared with

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
63% 109,221 of 173,842 households
England
61% 14,369,065 of 23,436,085 households
Source
Nomis (ONS Census 2021, claimant count, ASHE, UK Business Counts), ONS / Durham University (TS054)
Period
2021
Area
civil parish — measured at output area level and summed to this area

The categories are a hierarchy: some are subtotals of others, so they do not add to the total and summing them overstates it.

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Source
Nomis (ONS Census 2021, claimant count, ASHE, UK Business Counts), ONS / Durham University (TS054)
Period
2021
Area
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, local authority; England, country

The categories are a hierarchy: some are subtotals of others, so they do not add to the total and summing them overstates it.

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Aged 16 or over with a Level 4 qualification or above

32%

3,812 of 12,046 residents, Census 2021

Level 4 is a higher national certificate or above, including a degree.

Compared with

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
32% 107,437 of 334,908 residents
England
34% 15,606,458 of 46,006,955 residents
Source
Nomis (ONS Census 2021, claimant count, ASHE, UK Business Counts), ONS / Durham University (TS067)
Period
2021
Area
civil parish — measured at output area level and summed to this area

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Source
Nomis (ONS Census 2021, claimant count, ASHE, UK Business Counts), ONS / Durham University (TS067)
Period
2021
Area
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, local authority; England, country

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Health good or very good

79%

10,911 of 13,733 residents, Census 2021

Good or very good is two census categories added together.

Compared with

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
82% 326,765 of 400,196 residents
England
82% 46,431,564 of 56,490,046 residents
Source
Nomis (ONS Census 2021, claimant count, ASHE, UK Business Counts), ONS / Durham University (TS037)
Period
2021
Area
civil parish — measured at output area level and summed to this area

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Source
Nomis (ONS Census 2021, claimant count, ASHE, UK Business Counts), ONS / Durham University (TS037)
Period
2021
Area
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, local authority; England, country

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Crimes and anti-social behaviour recorded

370

September 2025 to August 2026

87 of them were anti-social behaviour.

No Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole or England figure is held yet.

Source
police.uk street-level crime and ASB data, Single Online Home National Digital Team
Period
2025-09 to 2026-08
Area
civil parish

police.uk locations are anonymised snap points — an approximation of where the crime happened, not a precise location. Counts are of crimes and anti-social behaviour incidents recorded within the boundary, not a rate. The boundary is this place's own outline, simplified before it is queried: police.uk accepts a single shape of limited length, so the outline is reduced to at most 90 points. Where a place's boundary comes in more than one piece, only the largest piece is counted.

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Addresses within 1km of a green or blue space of at least 10 hectares

93%

6,851 of 7,333 addresses, 2026

No Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole or England figure is held yet.

Source
Access to green and blue space in England, Defra
Period
2026
Area
civil parish — measured at output area level and summed to this area

Official statistic in development. Percentages are recomputed from address counts, never averaged across output areas. The space type is held in the observation's category — Defra publishes three tables and they are not interchangeable.

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Highcliffe and Walkford, by neighbourhood

Census 2021 output areas, and the civil parish boundary as the Office for National Statistics publishes it, December 2024. North is up.

The shaded area is the 47 Census 2021 output areas Ezra counts as Highcliffe and Walkford, 6.4 km². They lie in 8 neighbourhoods. The dashed line is the civil parish boundary, 6.5 km².

Output areas 2021Civil parish December 2024Area Highcliffe and Walkford civil parish, E04012815

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About these figures

Why census totals differ between tables

The total number of residents or households is not identical in every census table published for Highcliffe and Walkford. The Office for National Statistics makes small changes to the counts in each published table so that no person can be identified, and the totals of different tables can differ as a result. It says the differences should be small.

Source Office for National Statistics, Protecting personal data in Census 2021 resultsPeriod Released 9 March 2023Area England and Wales

How areas are named

Areas are named in plain words on the charts. Their official codes are kept for anyone who needs to match these figures to the publishers' own tables.

Names beginning “Around” are generated descriptions. Locality names use OS map display priority, then estimated resident totals assigned to the nearest locality from each output area’s representative point. Road names use road length weighted by output-area resident density. These estimates do not locate individual residents or establish recognised neighbourhood names.

Official area codes
The official codes for Highcliffe and Walkford, the neighbourhoods and the wider areas named on the charts
Named on these pagesOfficial codeKind of area
Highcliffe and WalkfordE04012815Civil parish
Around WalkfordE01020357Lower Layer Super Output Area
Around Lymington RoadE01020349Lower Layer Super Output Area
Around Smugglers Lane NorthE01020369Lower Layer Super Output Area
Around Kilmington WayE01020350Lower Layer Super Output Area
Around Hinton Wood AvenueE01020358Lower Layer Super Output Area
Around Saffron DriveE01020370Lower Layer Super Output Area
Around Manning AvenueE01020372Lower Layer Super Output Area
Around HighcliffeE01020371Lower Layer Super Output Area
Highcliffe & Walkford (statistical area)E02004238Middle Layer Super Output Area
West Highcliffe (statistical area)E02004239Middle Layer Super Output Area