Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 4 secondary schools. Luminous Oak Academy is the nearest published school at 818 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO3 2BX
Botley · Eastleigh · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Botley
- Local authority
- Eastleigh
- Constituency
- Hamble Valley
- Postcode district
- SO3
- Postcode sector
- SO3 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO3 2BX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO3
- Postcode sector
- SO3 2
- Latitude
- 50.938516
- Longitude
- -1.288876
- British National Grid easting
- 450,062
- British National Grid northing
- 115,694
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Eastleigh · E07000086
- Electoral ward
- Botley · E05011188
- Parish or community
- E04004529
- Westminster constituency
- Hamble Valley · E14001263
- Output area
- E00190567
- Lower layer super output area
- Eastleigh 010F · E01035438
- Middle layer super output area
- Eastleigh 010 · E02004721
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 SO3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 4
- 818 m
Luminous Oak Academy
Free schools special
- 1.4 km
Durley Church of England Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.5 km
Boorley Park
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 634
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 327
- Anti social behaviour 87
- Public order 44
- Criminal damage and arson 39
- Other theft 37
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
STOKEWOOD SURGERY
FAIR OAK ROAD, FAIR OAK, EASTLEIGH, SO50 8AU
ODS code J82018
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Shamblehurst Lane North
BCT · Horton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Shamblehurst Lane North
BCT · Horton Heath
- 0.2 miles
Chancellors Lane
BCT · Long Common
- 0.2 miles
Chancellors Lane
BCT · Long Common
- 0.3 miles
Denhams Corner
BCT · Horton Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Eastleigh 010F, 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
20,517 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
634 published events cover 12 months, averaging 52.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 327 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.