Schools
80 open schools are in scope, including 50 primary and 9 secondary schools. Cantell School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO16 7JQ
Bassett · Southampton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Southampton
- Ward
- Bassett
- Local authority
- Southampton
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North
- Postcode district
- SO16
- Postcode sector
- SO16 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO16 7JQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO16
- Postcode sector
- SO16 7
- Latitude
- 50.954145
- Longitude
- -1.404628
- British National Grid easting
- 441,915
- British National Grid northing
- 117,360
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Southampton · E06000045
- Electoral ward
- Bassett · E05015492
- Parish or community
- E43000036
- Westminster constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North · E14001449
- Output area
- E00086627
- Lower layer super output area
- Southampton 001B · E01017145
- Middle layer super output area
- Southampton 001 · E02003549
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 SO16
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Boundary House, Chilworth Road, Southampton, SO16 7JQ | 31 May 2019 | £875,000 |
| Dun Woodie, Chilworth Road, Southampton, SO16 7JQ | 20 November 2009 | £551,201 |
| Ashley, Chilworth Road, Southampton, SO16 7JQ | 25 August 2000 | £342,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 80
- Primary
- 50
- Secondary
- 9
- 1.4 km
Cantell School
Foundation school
- 1.5 km
Hardmoor Nursery & Early Years Centre - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools
Local authority nursery school
- 1.5 km
Vermont School
Academy special sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 329
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 156
- Anti social behaviour 36
- Burglary 25
- Public order 24
- Vehicle crime 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 23
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 3.8
- SO16 7 residents
- 6,446
12 female, 11 male
Age bands in SO16 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 20%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.4%
884 residents
1,383 residents
1,570 residents
1,601 residents
1,479 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SO16 7 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
21
within 5 km straight-line
BURGESS ROAD SURGERY
357A BURGESS ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 3BD
ODS code J82001
2.2 km
ALDERMOOR SURGERY
ALDERMOOR CLOSE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 5ST
ODS code J82092
2.2 km
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE SOUTHAMPTON
BUILDING 48, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO17 1BJ
ODS code J82080
2.3 km
STONEHAM LANE SURGERY
CITY GATEWAY, PARKVILLE ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 2JA
ODS code J82087
2.5 km
NORTH BADDESLEY SURGERY
NORTON WELCH CLOSE, FLEMING AVENUE, NORTH BADDESLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO52 9EP
ODS code J82121
3.2 km
LORDSHILL HEALTH CENTRE
LORDSHILL DISTRICT CENTRE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 8HY
ODS code J82002
3.4 km
ALMA ROAD SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 68 ALMA ROAD, PORTSWOOD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 6UX
ODS code J82122
3.6 km
PARK SURGERY
HURSLEY ROAD, CHANDLER'S FORD, EASTLEIGH, SO53 2ZH
ODS code J82143
3.7 km
ST. ANDREW'S SURGERY
166 MARKET STREET, EASTLEIGH, SO50 5PT
ODS code J82071
3.9 km
RAYMOND ROAD SURGERY
34 RAYMOND ROAD, UPPER SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5AL
ODS code J82126
4.0 km
EASTLEIGH MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEWTOWN ROAD, EASTLEIGH, SO50 9AG
ODS code J82020
4.1 km
BOYATT WOOD SURGERY
BOYATT SHOPPING CENTRE, SHAKESPEARE ROAD, EASTLEIGH, SO50 4QP
ODS code J82169
4.1 km
CHEVIOT ROAD SURGERY
1 SHIRLEY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5RP
ODS code J82062
4.1 km
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
4.2 km
THE FRYERN SURGERY
OAKMOUNT ROAD, CHANDLER'S FORD, EASTLEIGH, SO53 2LH
ODS code J82019
4.3 km
HILL LANE SURGERY
162 HILL LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5DD
ODS code J82207
4.3 km
WALNUT TREE SURGERY
14 CARLTON ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 2HQ
ODS code J82605
4.3 km
SOLENT GP SURGERY
ADELAIDE HEALTH CENTRE, WILLIAM MACLEOD WAY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4XE
ODS code J82024
4.5 km
HOMELESS HEALTHCARE TEAM
30 CRANBURY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 0LT
ODS code J82217
4.5 km
BROOK HOUSE SURGERY
98 OAKLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY PARK, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4NZ
ODS code J82213
4.6 km
Showing 20 of 21 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hilton Hotel
BCT · Chilworth
- 0.1 miles
Chilworth Roundabout
BCT · Bassett
- 0.2 miles
Birch Road
BCT · Chilworth
- 0.2 miles
Birch Road
BCT · Chilworth
- 0.3 miles
Pinelands Road
BCT · Chilworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southampton 001B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,715 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
329 published events cover 12 months, averaging 27.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 156 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.