Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 2 secondary schools. Northwood Primary School is the nearest published school at 893 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PO31 8FA
Cowes South & Northwood · Isle of Wight · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West
- Postcode district
- PO31
- Postcode sector
- PO31 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO31 8FA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO31
- Postcode sector
- PO31 8
- Latitude
- 50.744996
- Longitude
- -1.313611
- British National Grid easting
- 448,524
- British National Grid northing
- 94,158
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Isle of Wight · E06000046
- Electoral ward
- Cowes South & Northwood · E05013368
- Parish or community
- E04001324
- Westminster constituency
- Isle of Wight West · E14001304
- Output area
- E00087513
- Lower layer super output area
- Isle of Wight 002E · E01017329
- Middle layer super output area
- Isle of Wight 002 · E02003582
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 PO31
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 2
- 893 m
Northwood Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Lanesend Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Gurnard Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 331
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 193
- Public order 28
- Anti social behaviour 27
- Other theft 26
- Criminal damage and arson 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PO31 8 residents
- 5,984
Age bands in PO31 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.3%
855 residents
554 residents
1,154 residents
2,030 residents
2,192 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
2
within 5 km
COWES MEDICAL CENTRE
200 NEWPORT ROAD, COWES, PO31 7ER
ODS code J84015
1.1 km
EAST COWES MEDICAL CENTRE
CHURCH PATH, EAST COWES, PO32 6RP
ODS code J84004
2.4 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
- 0.0 miles
Four Cross Pallance Road
BCT · Northwood
- 0.0 miles
Four Cross
BCT · Northwood
- 0.0 miles
Four Cross
BCT · Northwood
- 0.1 miles
Wyatts Lane
BCT · Northwood
- 0.1 miles
Pallance Road
BCT · Northwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Isle of Wight 002E, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,384 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
331 published events cover 12 months, averaging 27.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 193 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.