Schools
87 open schools are in scope, including 55 primary and 9 secondary schools. Portswood Primary School is the nearest published school at 83 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO2 3AA
Swaythling · Southampton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Swaythling
- Local authority
- Southampton
- Constituency
- Southampton Test
- Postcode district
- SO2
- Postcode sector
- SO2 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO2 3AA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO2
- Postcode sector
- SO2 3
- Latitude
- 50.930810
- Longitude
- -1.387338
- British National Grid easting
- 443,151
- British National Grid northing
- 114,775
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Southampton · E06000045
- Electoral ward
- Swaythling · E05015504
- Parish or community
- E43000036
- Westminster constituency
- Southampton Test · E14001500
- Output area
- E00087030
- Lower layer super output area
- Southampton 009D · E01017231
- Middle layer super output area
- Southampton 009 · E02003557
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 SO2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 87
- Primary
- 55
- Secondary
- 9
- 83 m
Portswood Primary School
Academy converter
- 675 m
St Denys Primary School
Foundation school
- 679 m
Swaythling Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,433
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,813
- Shoplifting 505
- Public order 325
- Anti social behaviour 319
- Criminal damage and arson 289
GP practices
24
within 5 km straight-line
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE SOUTHAMPTON
BUILDING 48, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO17 1BJ
ODS code J82080
692 m
BURGESS ROAD SURGERY
357A BURGESS ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 3BD
ODS code J82001
880 m
STONEHAM LANE SURGERY
CITY GATEWAY, PARKVILLE ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 2JA
ODS code J82087
1.1 km
ALMA ROAD SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 68 ALMA ROAD, PORTSWOOD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 6UX
ODS code J82122
1.4 km
HOMELESS HEALTHCARE TEAM
30 CRANBURY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 0LT
ODS code J82217
1.9 km
WALNUT TREE SURGERY
14 CARLTON ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 2HQ
ODS code J82605
2.2 km
WEST END ROAD SURGERY
62 WEST END ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO18 6TG
ODS code J82040
2.5 km
HILL LANE SURGERY
162 HILL LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5DD
ODS code J82207
2.6 km
RAYMOND ROAD SURGERY
34 RAYMOND ROAD, UPPER SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5AL
ODS code J82126
2.6 km
SOUTHAMPTON SEA CITY PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S SURGERY, 1 JOHNSON STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 1LT
ODS code J82081
2.9 km
ALDERMOOR SURGERY
ALDERMOOR CLOSE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 5ST
ODS code J82092
3.0 km
ATHERLEY HOUSE SURGERY
143-145 SHIRLEY ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3FH
ODS code J82115
3.1 km
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
3.2 km
CHEVIOT ROAD SURGERY
1 SHIRLEY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5RP
ODS code J82062
3.2 km
SPCL SURGERY
49 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code Y07819
3.8 km
ST. PETERS SURGERY
49-55 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code J82208
3.8 km
WOOLSTON AND CHARTWELL PARTNERSHIP
THE WOOLSTON LODGE SURGERY, 66 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AL
ODS code J82076
3.9 km
OLD FIRE STATION SURGERY
68A PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AN
ODS code J82128
4.0 km
BROOK HOUSE SURGERY
98 OAKLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY PARK, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4NZ
ODS code J82213
4.2 km
SOLENT GP SURGERY
ADELAIDE HEALTH CENTRE, WILLIAM MACLEOD WAY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4XE
ODS code J82024
4.3 km
Showing 20 of 24 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bowden Lane
BCT · Portswood
- 0.1 miles
Bowden Lane
BCT · Portswood
- 0.2 miles
Upper Shaftesbury Avenue
BCT · Highfield
- 0.2 miles
Highfield Crescent
BCT · Portswood
- 0.2 miles
Upper Shaftesbury Avenue
BCT · Highfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southampton 009D, 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
24,194 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
4,433 published events cover 12 months, averaging 369.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,813 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.