Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 8 secondary schools. Wimborne Primary School is the nearest published school at 221 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PO4 8BT
Central Southsea · Portsmouth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Central Southsea
- Local authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South
- Postcode district
- PO4
- Postcode sector
- PO4 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO4 8BT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO4
- Postcode sector
- PO4 8
- Latitude
- 50.792208
- Longitude
- -1.064970
- British National Grid easting
- 466,000
- British National Grid northing
- 99,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Portsmouth · E06000044
- Electoral ward
- Central Southsea · E05002442
- Parish or community
- E43000035
- Westminster constituency
- Portsmouth South · E14001432
- Output area
- E00085989
- Lower layer super output area
- Portsmouth 019A · E01017023
- Middle layer super output area
- Portsmouth 019 · E02003542
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 PO4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 54
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 8
- 221 m
Wimborne Primary School
Community school
- 358 m
Fernhurst Junior School
Community school
- 360 m
Devonshire Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,626
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,283
- Anti social behaviour 660
- Public order 656
- Other theft 501
- Vehicle crime 500
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PO4 8 residents
- 13,645
Age bands in PO4 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.6%
2,488 residents
1,577 residents
4,154 residents
3,653 residents
2,540 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
EAST SHORE PARTNERSHIP
MILTON PARK SURGERY, ST MARY'S HEALTH CAMPUS, MILTON ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, PO3 6DW
ODS code J82194
903 m
THE LIGHTHOUSE GROUP PRACTICE
SOUTHESEA MEDICAL CENTRE, CARLISLE ROAD, SOUTHSEA, PO5 1AT
ODS code J82060
1.2 km
CRANESWATER GROUP PRACTICE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 36 WAVERLEY ROAD, SOUTHSEA, PO5 2PW
ODS code J82055
1.4 km
ISLAND CITY PRACTICE
NUTFIELD PLACE, PORTSMOUTH, PO1 4JT
ODS code J82085
1.7 km
THE UNICITY MEDICAL CENTRE
159-161 COMMERCIAL ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, PO1 1EA
ODS code J82199
2.0 km
TRAFALGAR MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, 25 OSBORNE ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, SOUTHSEA, PO5 3ND
ODS code J82028
2.1 km
KIRKLANDS SURGERY
111 COPNOR ROAD, COPNOR, PORTSMOUTH, PO3 5AF
ODS code J82073
2.3 km
PORTSDOWN GROUP PRACTICE
KINGSTON CRESCENT SURGERY, 92 KINGSTON CRESCENT, PORTSMOUTH, PO2 8AL
ODS code J82155
2.6 km
DERBY ROAD GROUP PRACTICE
DERBY ROAD SURGERY, 27-29 DERBY ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, PO2 8HP
ODS code J82149
2.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Winter Road
BCT · Eastney
- 0.1 miles
Haslemere Road
BCT · Southsea
- 0.1 miles
Haslemere Road
BCT · Southsea
- 0.1 miles
Winter Road
BCT · Eastney
- 0.1 miles
Shepherds Crook
BCT · Milton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Portsmouth 019A, 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
22,637 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
7,626 published events cover 12 months, averaging 635.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,283 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.