Schools
59 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 8 secondary schools. Hightown Primary School is the nearest published school at 496 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO2 8HJ
Thornhill · Southampton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Thornhill
- Local authority
- Southampton
- Constituency
- Southampton Itchen
- Postcode district
- SO2
- Postcode sector
- SO2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO2 8HJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO2
- Postcode sector
- SO2 8
- Latitude
- 50.900704
- Longitude
- -1.333566
- British National Grid easting
- 446,960
- British National Grid northing
- 111,460
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Southampton · E06000045
- Electoral ward
- Thornhill · E05015505
- Parish or community
- E43000036
- Westminster constituency
- Southampton Itchen · E14001499
- Output area
- E00086673
- Lower layer super output area
- Southampton 027D · E01017170
- Middle layer super output area
- Southampton 027 · E02003575
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
- 59
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 8
- 496 m
Hightown Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 725 m
Valentine Primary School & Nursery
Community school
- 893 m
The Serendipity School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,008
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,408
- Shoplifting 320
- Public order 246
- Criminal damage and arson 240
- Anti social behaviour 205
GP practices
10
within 5 km straight-line
THE PEARTREE PRACTICE
SULLIVAN ROAD, SHOLING, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 0HS
ODS code J82101
408 m
WEST END ROAD SURGERY
62 WEST END ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO18 6TG
ODS code J82040
2.5 km
OLD FIRE STATION SURGERY
68A PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AN
ODS code J82128
2.6 km
SPCL SURGERY
49 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code Y07819
2.8 km
ST. PETERS SURGERY
49-55 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code J82208
2.8 km
WOOLSTON AND CHARTWELL PARTNERSHIP
THE WOOLSTON LODGE SURGERY, 66 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AL
ODS code J82076
2.8 km
HAMBLE VALLEY HEALTH
SATCHELL LANE, HAMBLE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO31 4NQ
ODS code J82051
2.9 km
LIVING WELL PARTNERSHIP
WESTON LANE CTR HLTHY LVG, WESTON LANE, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9GH
ODS code J82622
3.0 km
SOUTHAMPTON SEA CITY PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S SURGERY, 1 JOHNSON STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 1LT
ODS code J82081
4.5 km
HOMELESS HEALTHCARE TEAM
30 CRANBURY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 0LT
ODS code J82217
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Montague Close
BCT · Sholing
- 0.1 miles
Montague Close
BCT · Sholing
- 0.2 miles
Walton Road
BCT · Sholing
- 0.2 miles
Sullivan Road Park
BCT · Sholing
- 0.2 miles
Orpen Road
BCT · Thornhill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southampton 027D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,160 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,008 published events cover 12 months, averaging 250.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,408 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.