PO38 3LF

Central Rural · Isle of Wight · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Central Rural
Local authority: Isle of Wight
Constituency: Isle of Wight West
Postcode district: PO38
Postcode sector: PO38 3

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
PO38 3JX	399 m
PO38 3LB	545 m
PO38 3LH	730 m
PO38 3JY	780 m
PO38 3JU	910 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: PO38 3LF
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: PO
Postcode district: PO38
Postcode sector: PO38 3
Latitude: 50.626473
Longitude: -1.275328
British National Grid easting: 451,354
British National Grid northing: 81,004

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: South East · E12000008
Local authority district: Isle of Wight · E06000046
Electoral ward: Central Rural · E05013364
Parish or community: E04001303
Westminster constituency: Isle of Wight West · E14001304
Output area: E00087725
Lower layer super output area: Isle of Wight 017D · E01017369
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

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Open schools: 5
Primary: 4
Secondary: 1

Godshill Primary School

Community school
1.6 km
Wroxall Primary School

Community school
4.0 km
Niton Primary School

Community school
4.5 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 26
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 18
Public order 3
Anti social behaviour 2
Criminal damage and arson 2
Drugs 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 3
Postcode households: 3
Residents per household: 1.0
PO38 3 residents: 3,849

Age bands in PO38 3

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 12.7%
Age 15 to 24: 8.3%
Age 25 to 44: 15.3%
Age 45 to 64: 30.1%
Age 65 and over: 33.7%

This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PO38 3 sector, not people in this individual postcode.

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+: 0%
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.

Nearby transport

Roud Road

BCT · Roud
0.5 miles
Roud Road

BCT · Roud
0.5 miles
Millers

BCT · Godshill
0.7 miles
Millers

BCT · Godshill
0.7 miles
Hermitage

BCT · Roud
0.9 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Isle of Wight 017D, 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

5 of 10

Overall England rank

14,602 of 33,755

Income: 6 of 10
Employment: 5 of 10
Education and skills: 5 of 10
Health and disability: 4 of 10
Crime: 8 of 10
Housing and services: 1 of 10
Living environment: 5 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.

Flood risk

Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.

High risk addresses: 0
Medium risk addresses: 0
Low risk addresses: 0
Groundwater flood alert area: Unlikely

Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Evidence in context

Schools

5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Godshill Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

26 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 18 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.