Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Niton Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PO38 2HP
Chale, Niton & Shorwell · Isle of Wight · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West
- Postcode district
- PO38
- Postcode sector
- PO38 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO38 2HP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2006
- Terminated
- 1 July 2006
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO38
- Postcode sector
- PO38 2
- Latitude
- 50.592535
- Longitude
- -1.320407
- British National Grid easting
- 448,200
- British National Grid northing
- 77,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Isle of Wight · E06000046
- Electoral ward
- Chale, Niton & Shorwell · E05013365
- Parish or community
- E04001299
- Westminster constituency
- Isle of Wight West · E14001304
- Output area
- E00087361
- Lower layer super output area
- Isle of Wight 017C · E01017299
- Middle layer super output area
- Isle of Wight 017 · E02003597
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 PO38
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.7 km
Niton Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Burglary 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PO38 2 residents
- 2,937
Age bands in PO38 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 35.3%
324 residents
197 residents
415 residents
855 residents
978 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Church
BCT · Chale
- 0.2 miles
Church
BCT · Chale
- 0.3 miles
Blythe Shute
BCT · Blackgang
- 0.3 miles
Blythe Shute
BCT · Blackgang
- 0.3 miles
Church
BCT · Chale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Isle of Wight 017C, 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
6,036 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 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
3 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.