Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 3 secondary schools. Boundary Oak School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PO17 5BS
Wallington & Downend · Fareham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Fareham
- Ward
- Wallington & Downend
- Local authority
- Fareham
- Constituency
- Fareham and Waterlooville
- Postcode district
- PO17
- Postcode sector
- PO17 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO17 5BS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO17
- Postcode sector
- PO17 5
- Latitude
- 50.882706
- Longitude
- -1.180025
- British National Grid easting
- 457,779
- British National Grid northing
- 109,567
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Fareham · E07000087
- Electoral ward
- Wallington & Downend · E05015679
- Parish or community
- E43000070
- Westminster constituency
- Fareham and Waterlooville · E14001233
- Output area
- E00115509
- Lower layer super output area
- Fareham 004A · E01022720
- Middle layer super output area
- Fareham 004 · E02004730
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 PO17
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Forest House, 5, Forest Lane, Fareham, PO17 5BS | 24 June 2021 | £910,000 |
| Crockerhill Cottage, Forest Lane, Fareham, PO17 5BS | 10 February 2021 | £800,000 |
| Woodside, Forest Lane, Fareham, PO17 5BS | 20 June 2016 | £535,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.3 km
Boundary Oak School
Other independent school
- 2.3 km
Wickham Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.5 km
Uplands Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 82
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 47
- Shoplifting 8
- Public order 6
- Other theft 5
- Anti social behaviour 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- PO17 5 residents
- 4,680
8 female, 6 male
Age bands in PO17 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.7%
764 residents
423 residents
1,164 residents
1,180 residents
867 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PO17 5 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
4
within 5 km
WICKHAM SURGERY
HOUGHTON WAY, WICKHAM, FAREHAM, PO17 5GU
ODS code J82034
2.5 km
GUDGEHEATH LANE SURGERY
187 GUDGE HEATH LANE, FAREHAM, PO15 6QA
ODS code J82033
3.1 km
CENTRE PRACTICE
FAREHAM HEALTH CENTRE, CIVIC WAY, FAREHAM, PO16 7ER
ODS code J82026
3.2 km
MEON HEALTH PRACTICE
102 HIGHLANDS ROAD, FAREHAM, PO15 6JF
ODS code J82154
3.3 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
- 0.1 miles
Forest Lane
BCT · Crockerhill
- 0.1 miles
Forest Lane
BCT · Crockerhill
- 0.3 miles
Greenlees Close
BCT · Crockerhill
- 0.3 miles
Greenlees Close
BCT · Crockerhill
- 0.4 miles
Charity Farm
BCT · Crockerhill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Fareham 004A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,286 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
- 0
- 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
82 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 47 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.