Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Durlston School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO4 0LJ
Barton & Becton · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Barton & Becton
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO4 0LJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 0
- Latitude
- 50.733315
- Longitude
- -1.628694
- British National Grid easting
- 426,300
- British National Grid northing
- 92,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Barton & Becton · E05014773
- Parish or community
- E04004581
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest West · E14001374
- Output area
- E00116805
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 022D · E01022987
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 022 · E02004800
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 SO4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.1 km
Durlston School
Other independent school
- 2.7 km
Ashley Junior School
Foundation school
- 2.7 km
Hordle CofE (VA) Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 24
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 10
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Vehicle crime 3
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
COASTAL MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
MILTON MEDICAL CENTRE, AVENUE ROAD, NEW MILTON, BH25 5JP
ODS code J82007
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Taddiford Gap
BCT · Downton
- 0.1 miles
Taddiford Gap
BCT · Downton
- 0.3 miles
Downton Lane
BCT · Downton
- 0.3 miles
Downton Lane
BCT · Downton
- 0.4 miles
Keepers Cottage
BCT · Downton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 022D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,006 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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
24 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.