SO4 1AE

Forest & Solent · New Forest · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Forest & Solent
Local authority: New Forest
Constituency: New Forest East
Postcode district: SO4
Postcode sector: SO4 1

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
SO45 1AE	1 m
SO45 1AJ	1.1 km
SO45 1AH	1.5 km
SO45 1AF	1.5 km
SO42 7XJ	1.5 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: SO4 1AE
Status: Terminated
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: 1 December 1994
Postcode area: SO
Postcode district: SO4
Postcode sector: SO4 1
Latitude: 50.786966
Longitude: -1.389545
British National Grid easting: 443,128
British National Grid northing: 98,778

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: South East · E12000008
Local authority district: New Forest · E07000091
Electoral ward: Forest & Solent · E05014780
Parish or community: E04004567
Westminster constituency: New Forest East · E14001373
Output area: E00116868
Lower layer super output area: New Forest 017B · E01022999
Middle layer super output area: New Forest 017 · E02004795

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

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Open schools: 3
Primary: 2
Secondary: 0

Blackfield Primary and Nursery School

Academy converter
3.7 km
Cadland Primary School

Community school
4.6 km
New Forest School

Other independent special school
4.8 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 1
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Public order 1

Nearby transport

Exbury Gardens

BCT · Exbury
1.2 miles
Visitor Car Park

BCT · Bucklers Hard
1.5 miles
Whitefield Farm

BCT · Langley
1.6 miles
Whitefield Farm

BCT · Langley
1.6 miles
West Common

BCT · Langley
1.7 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 017B, 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

5 of 10

Overall England rank

14,358 of 33,755

Income: 8 of 10
Employment: 10 of 10
Education and skills: 6 of 10
Health and disability: 10 of 10
Crime: 5 of 10
Housing and services: 1 of 10
Living environment: 1 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

Schools

3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Blackfield Primary and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 2.3 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Public order with 1 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.