Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Sarisbury Infant School is the nearest published school at 582 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO3 6BX
Locks Heath · Fareham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Locks Heath
- Local authority
- Fareham
- Constituency
- Hamble Valley
- Postcode district
- SO3
- Postcode sector
- SO3 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO3 6BX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO3
- Postcode sector
- SO3 6
- Latitude
- 50.864418
- Longitude
- -1.293501
- British National Grid easting
- 449,816
- British National Grid northing
- 107,451
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Fareham · E07000087
- Electoral ward
- Locks Heath · E05015670
- Parish or community
- E43000070
- Westminster constituency
- Hamble Valley · E14001263
- Output area
- E00115661
- Lower layer super output area
- Fareham 006A · E01022755
- Middle layer super output area
- Fareham 006 · E02004732
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
- 25
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 582 m
Sarisbury Infant School
Community school
- 685 m
Brookfield Community School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Sarisbury Church of England Junior School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 719
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 303
- Anti social behaviour 71
- Vehicle crime 62
- Public order 58
- Criminal damage and arson 53
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
LOCKSWOOD SURGERY
CENTRE WAY, LOCKS HEATH, SOUTHAMPTON, SO31 6DX
ODS code J82174
1.3 km
BROOK LANE SURGERY
233A BROOK LANE, SARISBURY GREEN, SOUTHAMPTON, SO31 7DQ
ODS code J82216
1.6 km
HAMBLE VALLEY HEALTH
SATCHELL LANE, HAMBLE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO31 4NQ
ODS code J82051
2.5 km
PHL SAS SERVICE
ONYX HOUSE, 12 LITTLE PARK FARM ROAD, FAREHAM, PO15 5TD
ODS code Y02526
2.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Winnards Park
BCT · Sarisbury
- 0.2 miles
Winnards Park
BCT · Sarisbury
- 0.2 miles
Barnes Lane
BCT · Locks Heath
- 0.2 miles
Barnes Lane
BCT · Locks Heath
- 0.3 miles
Barnbrook Road
BCT · Sarisbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Fareham 006A, 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
26,326 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
719 published events cover 12 months, averaging 59.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 303 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.