Schools
77 open schools are in scope, including 47 primary and 9 secondary schools. Shirley Infant School is the nearest published school at 64 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO15 5YQ
Shirley · Southampton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Shirley
- Local authority
- Southampton
- Constituency
- Southampton Test
- Postcode district
- SO15
- Postcode sector
- SO15 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO15 5YQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- 1 October 2000
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO15
- Postcode sector
- SO15 5
- Latitude
- 50.927637
- Longitude
- -1.426524
- British National Grid easting
- 440,400
- British National Grid northing
- 114,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Southampton · E06000045
- Electoral ward
- Shirley · E05015502
- Parish or community
- E43000036
- Westminster constituency
- Southampton Test · E14001500
- Output area
- E00087123
- Lower layer super output area
- Southampton 011E · E01017254
- Middle layer super output area
- Southampton 011 · E02003559
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 SO15
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 77
- Primary
- 47
- Secondary
- 9
- 64 m
Shirley Infant School
Academy converter
- 64 m
Shirley Junior School
Academy converter
- 278 m
Upper Shirley High School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,562
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,996
- Public order 403
- Shoplifting 392
- Criminal damage and arson 336
- Anti social behaviour 318
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO15 5 residents
- 12,355
Age bands in SO15 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.5%
2,075 residents
1,466 residents
4,005 residents
2,799 residents
1,748 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
18
within 5 km straight-line
CHEVIOT ROAD SURGERY
1 SHIRLEY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5RP
ODS code J82062
783 m
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
937 m
RAYMOND ROAD SURGERY
34 RAYMOND ROAD, UPPER SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5AL
ODS code J82126
1.0 km
ALDERMOOR SURGERY
ALDERMOOR CLOSE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 5ST
ODS code J82092
1.5 km
BROOK HOUSE SURGERY
98 OAKLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY PARK, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4NZ
ODS code J82213
1.5 km
HILL LANE SURGERY
162 HILL LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5DD
ODS code J82207
1.5 km
SOLENT GP SURGERY
ADELAIDE HEALTH CENTRE, WILLIAM MACLEOD WAY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4XE
ODS code J82024
1.5 km
ATHERLEY HOUSE SURGERY
143-145 SHIRLEY ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3FH
ODS code J82115
1.6 km
ALMA ROAD SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 68 ALMA ROAD, PORTSWOOD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 6UX
ODS code J82122
2.0 km
WALNUT TREE SURGERY
14 CARLTON ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 2HQ
ODS code J82605
2.0 km
LORDSHILL HEALTH CENTRE
LORDSHILL DISTRICT CENTRE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 8HY
ODS code J82002
2.1 km
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE SOUTHAMPTON
BUILDING 48, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO17 1BJ
ODS code J82080
2.3 km
HOMELESS HEALTHCARE TEAM
30 CRANBURY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 0LT
ODS code J82217
2.7 km
BURGESS ROAD SURGERY
357A BURGESS ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 3BD
ODS code J82001
3.1 km
SOUTHAMPTON SEA CITY PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S SURGERY, 1 JOHNSON STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 1LT
ODS code J82081
3.2 km
STONEHAM LANE SURGERY
CITY GATEWAY, PARKVILLE ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 2JA
ODS code J82087
3.6 km
TESTVALE SURGERY
12 SALISBURY ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 3PY
ODS code J82132
4.5 km
WEST END ROAD SURGERY
62 WEST END ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO18 6TG
ODS code J82040
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Colebrook Avenue
BCT · Upper Shirley
- 0.1 miles
Colebrook Avenue
BCT · Upper Shirley
- 0.1 miles
St James Park
BCT · Upper Shirley
- 0.1 miles
St James Park
BCT · Upper Shirley
- 0.1 miles
The Range
BCT · Shirley Warren
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southampton 011E, 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
15,442 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,562 published events cover 12 months, averaging 380.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,996 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.