Westbourne sits just off Poole's coastline, and the streetscape gives it away fast: Victorian and Edwardian villas, a run of independent shops and cafés along the main strip, and the kind of quiet that suggests people mostly stay once they arrive rather than pass through. Beyond that immediate impression, there isn't much I can respect-fully quote you in numbers — no verified figures on schools, transport links, crime, or population for Westbourne itself have come through, and I won't pretend otherwise or borrow generic Poole-wide stats and pass them off as local. What I can say is that the wider area it belongs to, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, sits close to the national and regional norms on house prices, and Westbourne's reputation locally has long been as a slightly more settled, slightly older-skewing pocket than the seafront-facing parts of Poole and Bournemouth — the kind of place people move to rather than through. If you're weighing this one up, treat it as a place to visit and walk before deciding — the character is real, but I'd want proper local figures on schools and safety in hand before making a call I couldn't easily undo.