Schools
67 open schools are in scope, including 45 primary and 10 secondary schools. Solent Junior School is the nearest published school at 902 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PO6 1BS
Drayton and Farlington · Portsmouth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Portsmouth
- Local authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth North
- Postcode district
- PO6
- Postcode sector
- PO6 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO6 1BS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO6
- Postcode sector
- PO6 1
- Latitude
- 50.852112
- Longitude
- -1.051839
- British National Grid easting
- 466,840
- British National Grid northing
- 106,273
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Portsmouth · E06000044
- Electoral ward
- Drayton and Farlington · E05002446
- Parish or community
- E43000035
- Westminster constituency
- Portsmouth North · E14001431
- Output area
- E00086164
- Lower layer super output area
- Portsmouth 003B · E01017061
- Middle layer super output area
- Portsmouth 003 · E02003526
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 PO6
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cliff House, Drayton Lane, Portsmouth, PO6 1BS | 5 May 2017 | £635,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 67
- Primary
- 45
- Secondary
- 10
- 902 m
Solent Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Solent Infant School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Court Lane Infant Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,716
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 727
- Shoplifting 320
- Public order 136
- Other theft 104
- Anti social behaviour 91
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- PO6 1 residents
- 8,289
2 female, 3 male
Age bands in PO6 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.5%
1,628 residents
886 residents
2,199 residents
2,369 residents
1,945 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PO6 1 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+
- 25%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Gigabit-capable
- 25%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 25%
- 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.
GP practices
7
within 5 km
THE DRAYTON SURGERY
280 HAVANT ROAD, DRAYTON, PORTSMOUTH, PO6 1PA
ODS code J82102
729 m
VINE MEDICAL GROUP
FOREST END SITE, FOREST END, WATERLOOVILLE, PO7 7AH
ODS code J82134
3.1 km
BLOSSOM HEALTH
82 PARK LANE, BEDHAMPTON, HAVANT, PO9 3HN
ODS code J82646
3.9 km
THE BOSMERE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SOLENT ROAD, HAVANT, PO9 1DQ
ODS code J82010
4.3 km
KIRKLANDS SURGERY
111 COPNOR ROAD, COPNOR, PORTSMOUTH, PO3 5AF
ODS code J82073
4.5 km
DERBY ROAD GROUP PRACTICE
DERBY ROAD SURGERY, 27-29 DERBY ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, PO2 8HP
ODS code J82149
4.6 km
PORTSDOWN GROUP PRACTICE
KINGSTON CRESCENT SURGERY, 92 KINGSTON CRESCENT, PORTSMOUTH, PO2 8AL
ODS code J82155
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The George
BCT · Cosham
- 0.1 miles
The George
BCT · Cosham
- 0.2 miles
The George
BCT · Cosham
- 0.2 miles
The George
BCT · Cosham
- 0.2 miles
Farlington Avenue
BCT · Cosham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Portsmouth 003B, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,220 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
Recorded crime
1,716 published events cover 12 months, averaging 143 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 727 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.