Schools
71 open schools are in scope, including 48 primary and 10 secondary schools. Itchen College is the nearest published school at 493 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO2 8AZ
Sholing · Southampton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sholing
- Local authority
- Southampton
- Constituency
- Southampton Itchen
- Postcode district
- SO2
- Postcode sector
- SO2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO2 8AZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO2
- Postcode sector
- SO2 8
- Latitude
- 50.907508
- Longitude
- -1.350394
- British National Grid easting
- 445,770
- British National Grid northing
- 112,206
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Southampton · E06000045
- Electoral ward
- Sholing · E05015503
- Parish or community
- E43000036
- Westminster constituency
- Southampton Itchen · E14001499
- Output area
- E00087164
- Lower layer super output area
- Southampton 026A · E01017256
- Middle layer super output area
- Southampton 026 · E02003574
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
- 71
- Primary
- 48
- Secondary
- 10
- 493 m
Itchen College
Further education
- 562 m
Thornhill Primary School
Academy converter
- 596 m
Sholing Junior School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,633
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,078
- Shoplifting 605
- Public order 371
- Criminal damage and arson 336
- Anti social behaviour 310
GP practices
16
within 5 km straight-line
THE PEARTREE PRACTICE
SULLIVAN ROAD, SHOLING, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 0HS
ODS code J82101
1.1 km
WEST END ROAD SURGERY
62 WEST END ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO18 6TG
ODS code J82040
1.2 km
OLD FIRE STATION SURGERY
68A PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AN
ODS code J82128
1.8 km
SPCL SURGERY
49 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code Y07819
1.9 km
ST. PETERS SURGERY
49-55 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code J82208
1.9 km
WOOLSTON AND CHARTWELL PARTNERSHIP
THE WOOLSTON LODGE SURGERY, 66 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AL
ODS code J82076
1.9 km
LIVING WELL PARTNERSHIP
WESTON LANE CTR HLTHY LVG, WESTON LANE, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9GH
ODS code J82622
2.6 km
HOMELESS HEALTHCARE TEAM
30 CRANBURY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 0LT
ODS code J82217
3.2 km
SOUTHAMPTON SEA CITY PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S SURGERY, 1 JOHNSON STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 1LT
ODS code J82081
3.3 km
ALMA ROAD SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 68 ALMA ROAD, PORTSWOOD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 6UX
ODS code J82122
3.9 km
HAMBLE VALLEY HEALTH
SATCHELL LANE, HAMBLE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO31 4NQ
ODS code J82051
4.0 km
WALNUT TREE SURGERY
14 CARLTON ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 2HQ
ODS code J82605
4.0 km
STONEHAM LANE SURGERY
CITY GATEWAY, PARKVILLE ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 2JA
ODS code J82087
4.0 km
BURGESS ROAD SURGERY
357A BURGESS ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 3BD
ODS code J82001
4.3 km
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE SOUTHAMPTON
BUILDING 48, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO17 1BJ
ODS code J82080
4.3 km
HILL LANE SURGERY
162 HILL LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5DD
ODS code J82207
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
North East Road
BCT · Sholing
- 0.2 miles
Luton Road
BCT · Sholing
- 0.2 miles
Upper Deacon Road
BCT · Sholing
- 0.2 miles
Upper Deacon Road
BCT · Sholing
- 0.2 miles
North East Road
BCT · Sholing
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southampton 026A, 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
24,500 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
4,633 published events cover 12 months, averaging 386.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,078 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.