Schools
62 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 8 secondary schools. Priory School is the nearest published school at 246 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PO5 1AD
St Thomas · Portsmouth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- St Thomas
- Local authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South
- Postcode district
- PO5
- Postcode sector
- PO5 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO5 1AD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO5
- Postcode sector
- PO5 1
- Latitude
- 50.794152
- Longitude
- -1.079900
- British National Grid easting
- 464,945
- British National Grid northing
- 99,803
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Portsmouth · E06000044
- Electoral ward
- St Thomas · E05002454
- Parish or community
- E43000035
- Westminster constituency
- Portsmouth South · E14001432
- Output area
- E00086510
- Lower layer super output area
- Portsmouth 018C · E01017129
- Middle layer super output area
- Portsmouth 018 · E02003541
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 PO5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 62
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 8
- 246 m
Priory School
Academy sponsor led
- 263 m
Ark Ayrton Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 487 m
Bramble Infant School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 12,925
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5,306
- Shoplifting 1,261
- Public order 1,111
- Anti social behaviour 1,064
- Other theft 796
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PO5 1 residents
- 9,066
Age bands in PO5 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 32.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 17.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 11%
888 residents
2,812 residents
2,412 residents
1,502 residents
941 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
THE LIGHTHOUSE GROUP PRACTICE
SOUTHESEA MEDICAL CENTRE, CARLISLE ROAD, SOUTHSEA, PO5 1AT
ODS code J82060
269 m
THE UNICITY MEDICAL CENTRE
159-161 COMMERCIAL ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, PO1 1EA
ODS code J82199
1.1 km
ISLAND CITY PRACTICE
NUTFIELD PLACE, PORTSMOUTH, PO1 4JT
ODS code J82085
1.2 km
CRANESWATER GROUP PRACTICE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 36 WAVERLEY ROAD, SOUTHSEA, PO5 2PW
ODS code J82055
1.2 km
TRAFALGAR MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, 25 OSBORNE ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, SOUTHSEA, PO5 3ND
ODS code J82028
1.3 km
EAST SHORE PARTNERSHIP
MILTON PARK SURGERY, ST MARY'S HEALTH CAMPUS, MILTON ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, PO3 6DW
ODS code J82194
1.4 km
PORTSDOWN GROUP PRACTICE
KINGSTON CRESCENT SURGERY, 92 KINGSTON CRESCENT, PORTSMOUTH, PO2 8AL
ODS code J82155
2.1 km
KIRKLANDS SURGERY
111 COPNOR ROAD, COPNOR, PORTSMOUTH, PO3 5AF
ODS code J82073
2.3 km
DERBY ROAD GROUP PRACTICE
DERBY ROAD SURGERY, 27-29 DERBY ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, PO2 8HP
ODS code J82149
2.4 km
THE WILLOW GROUP
FORTON MEDICAL CENTRE, WHITES PLACE, GOSPORT, PO12 3JP
ODS code J82083
4.5 km
BLOSSOM HEALTH - GOSPORT
GOSPORT WAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, BURY ROAD, GOSPORT, PO12 3PW
ODS code J82084
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Montgomerie Road
BCT · Southsea
- 0.1 miles
Montgomerie Road
BCT · Southsea
- 0.1 miles
Bradford Junction
BCT · Somers Town
- 0.1 miles
Bradford Junction
BCT · Somers Town
- 0.1 miles
Somers Road
BCT · Somers Town
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Portsmouth 018C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,159 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
12,925 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,077.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5,306 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.