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On Oak Avenue, in Jumpers Common & Fairmile
What it's like at BH23 2QD: every home that has sold on Oak Avenue since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Oak Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 32 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 6, Oak AvenueOther | Jun 2017 | £230,000 | 66 m² | £3,485/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8a, Oak AvenueFlat | Feb 2013 | £145,000 | 60 m² | £2,417/m² | 5 |
| 10a, Oak AvenueFlat | Aug 2021 | £200,000 | 64 m² | £3,125/m² | 6 |
| 12, Oak AvenueFlat | Oct 2003 | £128,000 | 52 m² | £2,462/m² | 3 |
| 12a, Oak AvenueFlat | Dec 2016 | £209,000 | 52 m² | £4,019/m² | 6 |
| 14, Oak AvenueDetached | Feb 2023 | £685,000 | 192 m² | £3,568/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Christchurch, a short drive or bike ride (1.5 km), with 484k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Chestnut Avenue, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 24); 19 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Stourfield Infant School, about a 10-minute walk (1.0 km).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Avonbourne Boys' Academy, 1.6 km away; Attainment 8: 47.3 · 9.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Bournemouth School for Girls (4 km) and Bournemouth School (4.3 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Petrol Barrack, 300 m away; Grove News (350 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Grove Surgery (1.0 km), with The Grove Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.0 km).
For a haircut, Francois is 350 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Royal Bournemouth Hospital, 1.7 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 65% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 66% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 9 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Atorro Sports is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and Iford Bridge Tavern the nearest pub (300 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 41 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Detached houses make up 54% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
Bungalow country: 33% of homes are bungalows.
The nearest park is Iford Meadows, 700 m away; for exercise, Swanmore Gardens (1.1 km).
A swim is a short trip away: Bournemouth Southbourne, 3.2 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.5 µg/m³).
For holidays, Bournemouth is 4.8 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 96 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 44% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 25% are 65 or over.
The nearest university is AECC University College, 2.4 km away (TEF Bronze).
19 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Christchurch constituency: Sir Christopher Chope MP (Conservative), since May 1997. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 7,455 (15.7%), turnout 67%. Vote shares: Conservative 36%, Liberal Democrat 20%, Reform UK 19%, Labour 16%.
12 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near BH23 2QD →
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 32 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Town Quay · about 38 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 1 of 17 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.0% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.2% | 85.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.0% | 11.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.1% | 1.4% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.