Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Swanmore College is the nearest published school at 546 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO3 2PR
Central Meon Valley · Winchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Central Meon Valley
- Local authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester
- Postcode district
- SO3
- Postcode sector
- SO3 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO3 2PR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO3
- Postcode sector
- SO3 2
- Latitude
- 50.936984
- Longitude
- -1.182372
- British National Grid easting
- 457,547
- British National Grid northing
- 115,601
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Winchester · E07000094
- Electoral ward
- Central Meon Valley · E05010998
- Parish or community
- E04004687
- Westminster constituency
- Winchester · E14001587
- Output area
- E00118258
- Lower layer super output area
- Winchester 011C · E01023276
- Middle layer super output area
- Winchester 011 · E02004839
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
- 8
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 546 m
Swanmore College
Community school
- 836 m
Swanmore Church of England Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.5 km
St John the Baptist Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 209
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 110
- Criminal damage and arson 21
- Anti social behaviour 19
- Other theft 15
- Public order 10
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
BISHOPS WALTHAM SURGERY
LOWER LANE, BISHOPS WALTHAM, SOUTHAMPTON, SO32 1GR
ODS code J82064
2.9 km
WICKHAM SURGERY
HOUGHTON WAY, WICKHAM, FAREHAM, PO17 5GU
ODS code J82034
3.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Technology College
BCT · Swanmore
- 0.3 miles
Technology College
BCT · Swanmore
- 0.3 miles
Swanmore School Grounds
BCT · Waltham Chase
- 0.3 miles
Recreation Ground
BCT · Swanmore
- 0.4 miles
Bishop's Wood Road
BCT · Shirrell Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Winchester 011C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
30,098 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
209 published events cover 12 months, averaging 17.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 110 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.