Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Oakwood School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PO18 9BW
Lavant · Chichester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lavant
- Local authority
- Chichester
- Constituency
- Chichester
- Postcode district
- PO18
- Postcode sector
- PO18 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO18 9BW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO18
- Postcode sector
- PO18 9
- Latitude
- 50.870944
- Longitude
- -0.821789
- British National Grid easting
- 483,000
- British National Grid northing
- 108,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Chichester · E07000225
- Electoral ward
- Lavant · E05011677
- Parish or community
- E04009904
- Westminster constituency
- Chichester · E14001166
- Output area
- E00160678
- Lower layer super output area
- Chichester 007B · E01031507
- Middle layer super output area
- Chichester 007 · E02006567
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 PO18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.9 km
Oakwood School
Other independent school
- 2.4 km
Lavant Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.5 km
Funtington Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 24
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Vehicle crime 11
- Other theft 3
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Violence and sexual offences 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PO18 9 residents
- 1,752
Age bands in PO18 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.9%
202 residents
114 residents
255 residents
542 residents
546 residents
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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
LAVANT ROAD SURGERY
8 LAVANT ROAD, CHICHESTER, PO19 5RH
ODS code H82051
3.5 km
PARKLANDS SURGERY
4 PARKLANDS ROAD, CHICHESTER, PO19 3DT
ODS code H82049
4.3 km
LANGLEY HOUSE SURGERY
27 WEST STREET, CHICHESTER, PO19 1RW
ODS code H82013
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
The Horse and Groom
BCT · East Ashling
- 0.8 miles
The Horse and Groom
BCT · East Ashling
- 1.0 miles
Chapel Corner
BCT · East Ashling
- 1.0 miles
Chapel Corner
BCT · East Ashling
- 1.3 miles
Salthill Road
BCT · East Ashling
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chichester 007B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,031 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
24 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Vehicle crime with 11 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.