Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 0 secondary schools. Leigh House Hospital is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO21 1HP
Upper Meon Valley · Winchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Upper Meon Valley
- Local authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester
- Postcode district
- SO21
- Postcode sector
- SO21 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO21 1HP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2021
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO21
- Postcode sector
- SO21 1
- Latitude
- 51.058250
- Longitude
- -1.265282
- British National Grid easting
- 451,587
- British National Grid northing
- 129,025
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Winchester · E07000094
- Electoral ward
- Upper Meon Valley · E05011008
- Parish or community
- E04004657
- Westminster constituency
- Winchester · E14001587
- Output area
- E00118063
- Lower layer super output area
- Winchester 002A · E01023236
- Middle layer super output area
- Winchester 002 · E02004830
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 SO21
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.4 km
Leigh House Hospital
Miscellaneous
- 1.8 km
St Swithuns
Other independent school
- 2.6 km
Winnall Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 189
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 148
- Possession of weapons 11
- Other theft 6
- Public order 6
- Drugs 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO21 1 residents
- 8,143
Age bands in SO21 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 23%
1,521 residents
673 residents
1,644 residents
2,270 residents
1,820 residents
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
2
within 5 km
ST CLEMENTS PARTNERSHIP
28 UPPER BROOK STREET, WINCHESTER, SO23 8DG
ODS code J82035
3.4 km
ST PAUL'S SURGERY
ALISON WAY, WINCHESTER, SO22 5DD
ODS code J82050
4.0 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Matterley Bowl Events
BCT · Gander Down
- 0.3 miles
Science Centre
BCT · No Mans Land
- 0.3 miles
Science Centre
BCT · No Mans Land
- 0.4 miles
Magdalen Hill Cemetery
BCT · No Mans Land
- 0.4 miles
Magdalen Hill Cemetery
BCT · No Mans Land
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Winchester 002A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,333 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
189 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 148 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.