Schools
87 open schools are in scope, including 54 primary and 10 secondary schools. Townhill Infant School is the nearest published school at 188 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO18 2FE
Bitterne Park · Southampton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bitterne Park
- Local authority
- Southampton
- Constituency
- Southampton Itchen
- Postcode district
- SO18
- Postcode sector
- SO18 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO18 2FE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO18
- Postcode sector
- SO18 2
- Latitude
- 50.928483
- Longitude
- -1.356064
- British National Grid easting
- 445,351
- British National Grid northing
- 114,535
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Southampton · E06000045
- Electoral ward
- Bitterne Park · E05015494
- Parish or community
- E43000036
- Westminster constituency
- Southampton Itchen · E14001499
- Output area
- E00190527
- Lower layer super output area
- Southampton 016B · E01017201
- Middle layer super output area
- Southampton 016 · E02003564
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 SO18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 87
- Primary
- 54
- Secondary
- 10
- 188 m
Townhill Infant School
Academy converter
- 253 m
Townhill Junior School
Foundation school
- 442 m
Moorlands Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,846
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,266
- Shoplifting 290
- Vehicle crime 273
- Anti social behaviour 186
- Public order 180
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 48
- Postcode households
- 21
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- SO18 2 residents
- 9,999
29 female, 19 male
Age bands in SO18 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 15.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.3%
1,766 residents
1,525 residents
2,536 residents
2,303 residents
1,583 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SO18 2 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
19
within 5 km
WEST END ROAD SURGERY
62 WEST END ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO18 6TG
ODS code J82040
1.3 km
STONEHAM LANE SURGERY
CITY GATEWAY, PARKVILLE ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 2JA
ODS code J82087
2.0 km
BURGESS ROAD SURGERY
357A BURGESS ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 3BD
ODS code J82001
2.4 km
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE SOUTHAMPTON
BUILDING 48, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO17 1BJ
ODS code J82080
2.9 km
HOMELESS HEALTHCARE TEAM
30 CRANBURY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 0LT
ODS code J82217
3.2 km
ALMA ROAD SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 68 ALMA ROAD, PORTSWOOD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 6UX
ODS code J82122
3.2 km
THE PEARTREE PRACTICE
SULLIVAN ROAD, SHOLING, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 0HS
ODS code J82101
3.3 km
SPCL SURGERY
49 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code Y07819
3.6 km
ST. PETERS SURGERY
49-55 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code J82208
3.6 km
WOOLSTON AND CHARTWELL PARTNERSHIP
THE WOOLSTON LODGE SURGERY, 66 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AL
ODS code J82076
3.7 km
OLD FIRE STATION SURGERY
68A PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AN
ODS code J82128
3.7 km
WALNUT TREE SURGERY
14 CARLTON ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 2HQ
ODS code J82605
3.8 km
SOUTHAMPTON SEA CITY PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S SURGERY, 1 JOHNSON STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 1LT
ODS code J82081
3.9 km
ST. ANDREW'S SURGERY
166 MARKET STREET, EASTLEIGH, SO50 5PT
ODS code J82071
4.1 km
HILL LANE SURGERY
162 HILL LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5DD
ODS code J82207
4.4 km
RAYMOND ROAD SURGERY
34 RAYMOND ROAD, UPPER SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5AL
ODS code J82126
4.6 km
LIVING WELL PARTNERSHIP
WESTON LANE CTR HLTHY LVG, WESTON LANE, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9GH
ODS code J82622
4.6 km
EASTLEIGH MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEWTOWN ROAD, EASTLEIGH, SO50 9AG
ODS code J82020
4.7 km
ATHERLEY HOUSE SURGERY
143-145 SHIRLEY ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3FH
ODS code J82115
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
- 0.0 miles
Wakefield Road
BCT · Townhill Park
- 0.0 miles
Wakefield Road
BCT · Townhill Park
- 0.1 miles
Wellburn Court
BCT · Midanbury
- 0.1 miles
Benhams Road
BCT · Townhill Park
- 0.1 miles
Wellburn Court
BCT · Midanbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southampton 016B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
6,982 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
2,846 published events cover 12 months, averaging 237.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,266 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.