Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Niton Primary School is the nearest published school at 973 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PO38 2NH
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 2NH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 September 2000
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO38
- Postcode sector
- PO38 2
- Latitude
- 50.580455
- Longitude
- -1.294352
- British National Grid easting
- 450,057
- British National Grid northing
- 75,874
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
- E04001308
- Westminster constituency
- Isle of Wight West · E14001304
- Output area
- E00087369
- 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
- 973 m
Niton Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 30
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 17
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Burglary 3
- Other theft 2
- Public order 2
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
- 0.1 miles
Sandrock
BCT · Niton
- 0.2 miles
Buddle Inn
BCT · Niton
- 0.3 miles
Undercliff Garage
BCT · Niton
- 0.3 miles
Undercliff Garage
BCT · Niton
- 0.3 miles
Castlehaven Lane
BCT · Niton
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
30 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 17 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.