Schools
69 open schools are in scope, including 47 primary and 10 secondary schools. Solent Infant School is the nearest published school at 265 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PO6 1DP
Drayton and Farlington · Portsmouth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth North
- Postcode district
- PO6
- Postcode sector
- PO6 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO6 1DP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO6
- Postcode sector
- PO6 1
- Latitude
- 50.847882
- Longitude
- -1.034965
- British National Grid easting
- 468,034
- British National Grid northing
- 105,818
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
- E00086173
- Lower layer super output area
- Portsmouth 026D · E01032604
- Middle layer super output area
- Portsmouth 026 · E02006821
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 69
- Primary
- 47
- Secondary
- 10
- 265 m
Solent Infant School
Academy converter
- 423 m
Solent Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Springfield School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 848
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 404
- Shoplifting 79
- Public order 70
- Criminal damage and arson 58
- Vehicle crime 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- PO6 1 residents
- 8,289
4 female, 2 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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.
GP practices
7
within 5 km
THE DRAYTON SURGERY
280 HAVANT ROAD, DRAYTON, PORTSMOUTH, PO6 1PA
ODS code J82102
832 m
BLOSSOM HEALTH
82 PARK LANE, BEDHAMPTON, HAVANT, PO9 3HN
ODS code J82646
3.0 km
THE BOSMERE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SOLENT ROAD, HAVANT, PO9 1DQ
ODS code J82010
3.1 km
VINE MEDICAL GROUP
FOREST END SITE, FOREST END, WATERLOOVILLE, PO7 7AH
ODS code J82134
3.4 km
HOMEWELL CURLEW PRACTICE
HAVANT HEALTH CENTRE, CIVIC CENTRE ROAD, HAVANT, PO9 2AQ
ODS code J82196
4.0 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
4.9 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
Waterworks Road
BCT · Farlington
- 0.1 miles
Waterworks Road
BCT · Farlington
- 0.1 miles
Sunshine Inn
BCT · Farlington
- 0.1 miles
Sunshine Inn
BCT · Farlington
- 0.2 miles
First Avenue
BCT · Farlington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Portsmouth 026D, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,932 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
848 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 404 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.