Schools
78 open schools are in scope, including 53 primary and 11 secondary schools. The Flying Bull Academy is the nearest published school at 99 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PO2 7HD
Nelson · Portsmouth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Nelson
- Local authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth North
- Postcode district
- PO2
- Postcode sector
- PO2 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO2 7HD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO2
- Postcode sector
- PO2 7
- Latitude
- 50.811056
- Longitude
- -1.081882
- British National Grid easting
- 464,782
- British National Grid northing
- 101,681
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Portsmouth · E06000044
- Electoral ward
- Nelson · E05002451
- Parish or community
- E43000035
- Westminster constituency
- Portsmouth North · E14001431
- Output area
- E00086371
- Lower layer super output area
- Portsmouth 013D · E01017102
- Middle layer super output area
- Portsmouth 013 · E02003536
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 PO2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 78
- Primary
- 53
- Secondary
- 11
- 99 m
The Flying Bull Academy
Academy converter
- 479 m
New Horizons Primary School
Academy converter
- 636 m
Manor Infant and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8,634
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,721
- Shoplifting 1,040
- Public order 707
- Anti social behaviour 627
- Criminal damage and arson 510
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 23
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- PO2 7 residents
- 12,810
10 female, 13 male
Age bands in PO2 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 11%
2,604 residents
1,459 residents
3,752 residents
2,937 residents
1,334 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PO2 7 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
11
within 5 km
PORTSDOWN GROUP PRACTICE
KINGSTON CRESCENT SURGERY, 92 KINGSTON CRESCENT, PORTSMOUTH, PO2 8AL
ODS code J82155
212 m
DERBY ROAD GROUP PRACTICE
DERBY ROAD SURGERY, 27-29 DERBY ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, PO2 8HP
ODS code J82149
520 m
ISLAND CITY PRACTICE
NUTFIELD PLACE, PORTSMOUTH, PO1 4JT
ODS code J82085
738 m
THE UNICITY MEDICAL CENTRE
159-161 COMMERCIAL ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, PO1 1EA
ODS code J82199
1.1 km
KIRKLANDS SURGERY
111 COPNOR ROAD, COPNOR, PORTSMOUTH, PO3 5AF
ODS code J82073
1.2 km
THE LIGHTHOUSE GROUP PRACTICE
SOUTHESEA MEDICAL CENTRE, CARLISLE ROAD, SOUTHSEA, PO5 1AT
ODS code J82060
1.6 km
EAST SHORE PARTNERSHIP
MILTON PARK SURGERY, ST MARY'S HEALTH CAMPUS, MILTON ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, PO3 6DW
ODS code J82194
1.8 km
TRAFALGAR MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, 25 OSBORNE ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, SOUTHSEA, PO5 3ND
ODS code J82028
3.0 km
CRANESWATER GROUP PRACTICE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 36 WAVERLEY ROAD, SOUTHSEA, PO5 2PW
ODS code J82055
3.1 km
THE WILLOW GROUP
FORTON MEDICAL CENTRE, WHITES PLACE, GOSPORT, PO12 3JP
ODS code J82083
4.5 km
THE DRAYTON SURGERY
280 HAVANT ROAD, DRAYTON, PORTSMOUTH, PO6 1PA
ODS code J82102
4.7 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
Kingston Crescent
BCT · Kingston
- 0.1 miles
Kingston Crescent
BCT · Kingston
- 0.1 miles
Queen's Road
BCT · Kingston
- 0.1 miles
Kingston Crescent
BCT · North End
- 0.2 miles
Kingston Crescent
BCT · North End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Portsmouth 013D, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,807 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
8,634 published events cover 12 months, averaging 719.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,721 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.