Schools
39 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 4 secondary schools. Gomer Infant School is the nearest published school at 229 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PO12 3SS
Alverstoke · Gosport · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO12 3SS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO12
- Postcode sector
- PO12 3
- Latitude
- 50.793766
- Longitude
- -1.159847
- British National Grid easting
- 459,311
- British National Grid northing
- 99,693
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Gosport · E07000088
- Electoral ward
- Alverstoke · E05014138
- Parish or community
- E43000071
- Westminster constituency
- Gosport · E14001252
- Output area
- E00116055
- Lower layer super output area
- Gosport 009D · E01022837
- Middle layer super output area
- Gosport 009 · E02004749
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore PO12
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 175, Privett Road, Gosport, PO12 3SS | 18 September 2020 | £220,000 |
| 143, Privett Road, Gosport, PO12 3SS | 15 July 2011 | £220,000 |
| 177, Privett Road, Gosport, PO12 3SS | 3 February 2006 | £196,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 39
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 4
- 229 m
Gomer Infant School
Community school
- 270 m
King's Academy Gomer
Academy converter
- 851 m
King's Academy Bay House
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,812
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 899
- Anti social behaviour 183
- Public order 146
- Other theft 145
- Criminal damage and arson 129
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 36
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- PO12 3 residents
- 11,666
17 female, 19 male
Age bands in PO12 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.3%
1,793 residents
1,102 residents
2,862 residents
3,208 residents
2,429 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PO12 3 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
6
within 5 km
BLOSSOM HEALTH - GOSPORT
GOSPORT WAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, BURY ROAD, GOSPORT, PO12 3PW
ODS code J82084
834 m
THE WILLOW GROUP
FORTON MEDICAL CENTRE, WHITES PLACE, GOSPORT, PO12 3JP
ODS code J82083
1.4 km
ROWNER HEALTH CENTRE
143 ROWNER LANE, ROWNER, GOSPORT, PO13 9SP
ODS code J82669
2.4 km
SOLENT VIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
LEE-ON-SOLENT HEALTH CTR, MANOR WAY, LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT, PO13 9JG
ODS code J82215
3.1 km
BRIDGEMARY MEDICAL CENTRE
2-4 GREGSON AVENUE, BRIDGEMARY, GOSPORT, PO13 0HR
ODS code J82152
3.9 km
TRAFALGAR MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, 25 OSBORNE ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, SOUTHSEA, PO5 3ND
ODS code J82028
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Queens Parade
BCT · Privett
- 0.1 miles
Queens Parade
BCT · Privett
- 0.1 miles
Privett Roundabout
BCT · Privett
- 0.2 miles
Sandford Avenue
BCT · Privett
- 0.2 miles
Sandford Avenue
BCT · Privett
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gosport 009D, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,006 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 7
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,812 published events cover 12 months, averaging 151 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 899 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.