Property market
The five-year median is £725,000 from 3 recorded sales in SO16 8AR. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Test Valley is £372,348 in June 2026, down 0.2% year on year.
SO16 8AR
Chilworth, Nursling & Rownhams · Test Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Southampton
- Local authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North
- Postcode district
- SO16
- Postcode sector
- SO16 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO16 8AR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO16
- Postcode sector
- SO16 8
- Latitude
- 50.952366
- Longitude
- -1.452642
- British National Grid easting
- 438,544
- British National Grid northing
- 117,136
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Test Valley · E07000093
- Electoral ward
- Chilworth, Nursling & Rownhams · E05012936
- Parish or community
- E04004629
- Westminster constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North · E14001449
- Output area
- E00117731
- Lower layer super output area
- Test Valley 015B · E01023171
- Middle layer super output area
- Test Valley 015 · E02004828
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
21 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Oak Haven, Rownhams Lane, Rownhams, Southampton, SO16 8AR | 1 September 2023 | £725,000 |
| St Johns Nursing Home, Rownhams Lane, Rownhams, Southampton, SO16 8AR | 1 November 2021 | £2,455,000 |
| Copperwood, Rownhams Lane, Rownhams, Southampton, SO16 8AR | 24 September 2021 | £695,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 8
- 635 m
Rownhams St John's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 946 m
Sinclair Primary and Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools
Community school
- 1.2 km
The Cedar School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 976
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 364
- Anti social behaviour 116
- Shoplifting 98
- Vehicle crime 95
- Criminal damage and arson 83
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 69
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 4.6
- SO16 8 residents
- 12,073
44 female, 25 male
Age bands in SO16 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.3%
1,875 residents
1,220 residents
2,748 residents
3,266 residents
2,921 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SO16 8 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+
- 77.8%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 77.8%
- Gigabit-capable
- 77.8%
- 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
13
within 5 km
LORDSHILL HEALTH CENTRE
LORDSHILL DISTRICT CENTRE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 8HY
ODS code J82002
1.3 km
ALDERMOOR SURGERY
ALDERMOOR CLOSE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 5ST
ODS code J82092
2.2 km
NORTH BADDESLEY SURGERY
NORTON WELCH CLOSE, FLEMING AVENUE, NORTH BADDESLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO52 9EP
ODS code J82121
2.8 km
SOLENT GP SURGERY
ADELAIDE HEALTH CENTRE, WILLIAM MACLEOD WAY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4XE
ODS code J82024
3.1 km
BROOK HOUSE SURGERY
98 OAKLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY PARK, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4NZ
ODS code J82213
3.4 km
CHEVIOT ROAD SURGERY
1 SHIRLEY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5RP
ODS code J82062
3.8 km
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
4.0 km
RAYMOND ROAD SURGERY
34 RAYMOND ROAD, UPPER SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5AL
ODS code J82126
4.3 km
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE SOUTHAMPTON
BUILDING 48, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO17 1BJ
ODS code J82080
4.5 km
TESTVALE SURGERY
12 SALISBURY ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 3PY
ODS code J82132
4.5 km
HILL LANE SURGERY
162 HILL LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5DD
ODS code J82207
4.8 km
ATHERLEY HOUSE SURGERY
143-145 SHIRLEY ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3FH
ODS code J82115
4.9 km
BURGESS ROAD SURGERY
357A BURGESS ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 3BD
ODS code J82001
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Telephone Exchange
BCT · Rownhams
- 0.1 miles
Telephone Exchange
BCT · Rownhams
- 0.1 miles
Horns Drove
BCT · Rownhams
- 0.1 miles
Routs Way
BCT · Rownhams
- 0.1 miles
Horns Drove
BCT · Rownhams
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Test Valley 015B, 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
26,351 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 8 secondary schools. Rownhams St John's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 635 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
976 published events cover 12 months, averaging 81.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 364 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.