Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Birdham CE Primary School is the nearest published school at 888 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PO20 7FH
The Witterings · Chichester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- The Witterings
- Local authority
- Chichester
- Constituency
- Chichester
- Postcode district
- PO20
- Postcode sector
- PO20 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO20 7FH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO20
- Postcode sector
- PO20 7
- Latitude
- 50.801956
- Longitude
- -0.832324
- British National Grid easting
- 482,380
- British National Grid northing
- 100,917
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Chichester · E07000225
- Electoral ward
- The Witterings · E05011685
- Parish or community
- E04009884
- Westminster constituency
- Chichester · E14001166
- Output area
- E00160850
- Lower layer super output area
- Chichester 013G · E01031542
- Middle layer super output area
- Chichester 013 · E02006573
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 PO20
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 888 m
Birdham CE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.7 km
Bosham Primary School
Community school
- 3.9 km
Sidlesham Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 85
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 25
- Anti social behaviour 20
- Criminal damage and arson 14
- Other theft 9
- Public order 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PO20 7 residents
- 4,357
Age bands in PO20 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.1%
565 residents
309 residents
672 residents
1,261 residents
1,209 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
1
within 5 km
WITTERINGS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE WITTERINGS MED CENTRE, CAKEHAM RD,EAST WITTERING, CHICHESTER, PO20 8BH
ODS code H82095
4.6 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
- 0.6 miles
Sidlesham Lane
BCT · Birdham
- 0.6 miles
Church Lane
BCT · Birdham
- 0.6 miles
Sidlesham Lane
BCT · Birdham
- 0.6 miles
Church Lane
BCT · Birdham
- 0.6 miles
Old Common Close
BCT · Birdham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chichester 013G, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,147 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
85 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 25 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.