Schools
40 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 6 secondary schools. Saxon Wood School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG23 8WD
Sherborne St John & Rooksdown · Basingstoke and Deane · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Constituency
- North West Hampshire
- Postcode district
- RG23
- Postcode sector
- RG23 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG23 8WD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- 1 February 2003
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG23
- Postcode sector
- RG23 8
- Latitude
- 51.286113
- Longitude
- -1.139376
- British National Grid easting
- 460,114
- British National Grid northing
- 154,460
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Basingstoke and Deane · E07000084
- Electoral ward
- Sherborne St John & Rooksdown · E05013090
- Parish or community
- E04004462
- Westminster constituency
- North West Hampshire · E14001403
- Output area
- E00114621
- Lower layer super output area
- Basingstoke and Deane 005E · E01022547
- Middle layer super output area
- Basingstoke and Deane 005 · E02004679
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 RG23
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 40
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 6
- 1.1 km
Saxon Wood School
Community special school
- 2.2 km
Castle Hill Primary School
Community school
- 2.2 km
Chiltern Way Academy Futures
Academy alternative provision sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 197
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 79
- Anti social behaviour 26
- Shoplifting 19
- Public order 19
- Criminal damage and arson 13
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RG23 8 residents
- 6,967
Age bands in RG23 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 20%
1,148 residents
707 residents
1,656 residents
1,915 residents
1,355 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
SHAKESPEARE ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHAKESPEARE HOUSE HEALTH CENTRE, SHAKESPEARE ROAD, POPLEY, BASINGSTOKE, RG24 9DT
ODS code Y07014
3.9 km
BRAMBLYS GRANGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
DICKSON HOUSE, CROWN HEIGHTS, ALENCON LINK, BASINGSTOKE, RG21 7AP
ODS code J82058
4.3 km
CROWN HEIGHTS MEDICAL CENTRE
2 DICKSON HOUSE, CROWN HEIGHTS, ALENCON LINK, BASINGSTOKE, RG21 7AN
ODS code J82144
4.3 km
CAMROSE GILLIES AND HACKWOOD PARTNERSHIP
BRIGHTON HILL PARADE, BASINGSTOKE, RG22 4EH
ODS code J82069
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Shothanger Farm
BCT · Wootton St Lawrence
- 0.0 miles
Shothanger Farm
BCT · Wootton St Lawrence
- 0.3 miles
Ramsdell Turn
BCT · Wootton St Lawrence
- 0.3 miles
Ramsdell Turn
BCT · Wootton St Lawrence
- 0.6 miles
Rooksdown Crossroads
BCT · Rooksdown
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Basingstoke and Deane 005E, 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
28,719 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
197 published events cover 12 months, averaging 16.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 79 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.