Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 3 secondary schools. St George's School is the nearest published school at 310 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PO30 2QJ
Mountjoy & Shide · Isle of Wight · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Mountjoy & Shide
- Local authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West
- Postcode district
- PO30
- Postcode sector
- PO30 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO30 2QJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO30
- Postcode sector
- PO30 2
- Latitude
- 50.691623
- Longitude
- -1.287916
- British National Grid easting
- 450,394
- British National Grid northing
- 88,240
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Isle of Wight · E06000046
- Electoral ward
- Mountjoy & Shide · E05013377
- Parish or community
- E04001323
- Westminster constituency
- Isle of Wight West · E14001304
- Output area
- E00180411
- Lower layer super output area
- Isle of Wight 008C · E01017331
- Middle layer super output area
- Isle of Wight 008 · E02003588
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 PO30
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 3
- 310 m
St George's School
Community special school
- 886 m
Barton Primary School
Community school
- 894 m
Nine Acres Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,572
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,028
- Shoplifting 426
- Public order 271
- Anti social behaviour 237
- Criminal damage and arson 179
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PO30 2 residents
- 7,291
Age bands in PO30 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- 1,333 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- 781 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.2%
- 1,910 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.6%
- 1,721 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 21.1%
- 1,539 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
NEWPORT HEALTH CENTRE
22 CARISBROOKE HIGH STREET, CARISBROOKE, NEWPORT, PO30 1NR
ODS code J84011
1.7 km
Nearby transport
- 161 m
Shide Path
BCT · Shide
- 203 m
Shide Road
BCT · Shide
- 237 m
Shide Road
BCT · Shide
- 244 m
St Georges Park
BCT · Newport
- 266 m
St Georges Park
BCT · Newport
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Isle of Wight 008C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,184 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
2,572 published events cover 12 months, averaging 214 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,028 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.