Schools
59 open schools are in scope, including 40 primary and 8 secondary schools. Southsea Infant School is the nearest published school at 136 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PO5 2SD
St Jude · Portsmouth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- St Jude
- Local authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South
- Postcode district
- PO5
- Postcode sector
- PO5 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO5 2SD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2013
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO5
- Postcode sector
- PO5 2
- Latitude
- 50.786546
- Longitude
- -1.076758
- British National Grid easting
- 465,177
- British National Grid northing
- 98,960
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Portsmouth · E06000044
- Electoral ward
- St Jude · E05002453
- Parish or community
- E43000035
- Westminster constituency
- Portsmouth South · E14001432
- Output area
- E00086492
- Lower layer super output area
- Portsmouth 025D · E01017126
- Middle layer super output area
- Portsmouth 025 · E02003548
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
- 59
- Primary
- 40
- Secondary
- 8
- 136 m
Southsea Infant School
Community school
- 365 m
Craneswater Junior School
Community school
- 417 m
St Swithun's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9,093
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,599
- Shoplifting 959
- Anti social behaviour 821
- Public order 759
- Other theft 580
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PO5 2 residents
- 7,114
Age bands in PO5 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 15.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 32.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 16%
766 residents
1,126 residents
2,345 residents
1,743 residents
1,141 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
10
within 5 km straight-line
CRANESWATER GROUP PRACTICE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 36 WAVERLEY ROAD, SOUTHSEA, PO5 2PW
ODS code J82055
382 m
TRAFALGAR MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, 25 OSBORNE ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, SOUTHSEA, PO5 3ND
ODS code J82028
1.1 km
THE LIGHTHOUSE GROUP PRACTICE
SOUTHESEA MEDICAL CENTRE, CARLISLE ROAD, SOUTHSEA, PO5 1AT
ODS code J82060
1.1 km
EAST SHORE PARTNERSHIP
MILTON PARK SURGERY, ST MARY'S HEALTH CAMPUS, MILTON ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, PO3 6DW
ODS code J82194
1.8 km
THE UNICITY MEDICAL CENTRE
159-161 COMMERCIAL ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, PO1 1EA
ODS code J82199
1.9 km
ISLAND CITY PRACTICE
NUTFIELD PLACE, PORTSMOUTH, PO1 4JT
ODS code J82085
2.0 km
PORTSDOWN GROUP PRACTICE
KINGSTON CRESCENT SURGERY, 92 KINGSTON CRESCENT, PORTSMOUTH, PO2 8AL
ODS code J82155
2.9 km
KIRKLANDS SURGERY
111 COPNOR ROAD, COPNOR, PORTSMOUTH, PO3 5AF
ODS code J82073
3.0 km
DERBY ROAD GROUP PRACTICE
DERBY ROAD SURGERY, 27-29 DERBY ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, PO2 8HP
ODS code J82149
3.3 km
THE WILLOW GROUP
FORTON MEDICAL CENTRE, WHITES PLACE, GOSPORT, PO12 3JP
ODS code J82083
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Albert Road Lights
BCT · Southsea
- 0.0 miles
Albert Road
BCT · Southsea
- 0.0 miles
Albert Road Lights
BCT · Southsea
- 0.1 miles
Albert Road Lights
BCT · Southsea
- 0.1 miles
Napier Road
BCT · Southsea
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Portsmouth 025D, 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
15,273 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
9,093 published events cover 12 months, averaging 757.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,599 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.