Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. Swanwick Lodge is the nearest published school at 301 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO23 9HS
St Michael · Winchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- St Michael
- Local authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester
- Postcode district
- SO23
- Postcode sector
- SO23 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO23 9HS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 February 2011
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO23
- Postcode sector
- SO23 9
- Latitude
- 51.061240
- Longitude
- -1.316493
- British National Grid easting
- 447,995
- British National Grid northing
- 129,323
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Winchester · E07000094
- Electoral ward
- St Michael · E05011004
- Parish or community
- E43000074
- Westminster constituency
- Winchester · E14001587
- Output area
- E00118215
- Lower layer super output area
- Winchester 007D · E01023264
- Middle layer super output area
- Winchester 007 · E02004835
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 SO23
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 301 m
Swanwick Lodge
Secure units
- 335 m
The Pilgrims School
Other independent school
- 418 m
Winchester College
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,217
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,328
- Shoplifting 457
- Public order 273
- Drugs 250
- Anti social behaviour 231
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO23 9 residents
- 4,913
Age bands in SO23 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 18.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.4%
766 residents
871 residents
944 residents
1,075 residents
997 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.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
ST CLEMENTS PARTNERSHIP
28 UPPER BROOK STREET, WINCHESTER, SO23 8DG
ODS code J82035
455 m
ST PAUL'S SURGERY
ALISON WAY, WINCHESTER, SO22 5DD
ODS code J82050
628 m
FRIARSGATE PRACTICE
STOCKBRIDGE ROAD, WEEKE, WINCHESTER, SO22 6EL
ODS code J82130
2.0 km
TWYFORD SURGERY
HAZELEY ROAD, TWYFORD, WINCHESTER, SO21 1QY
ODS code J82116
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
St. Thomas Church
BCT · Winchester
- 0.1 miles
St. Thomas Church
BCT · Winchester
- 0.1 miles
Jewry Street
BCT · Winchester
- 0.2 miles
Upper Brook Street
BCT · Winchester
- 0.2 miles
Jewry Street
BCT · Winchester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Winchester 007D, 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
24,676 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
3,217 published events cover 12 months, averaging 268.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,328 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.