Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 4 secondary schools. Hounsdown School is the nearest published school at 824 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO4 2EJ
Brockenhurst & Denny Lodge · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO4 2EJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 2
- Latitude
- 50.898202
- Longitude
- -1.498269
- British National Grid easting
- 435,380
- British National Grid northing
- 111,090
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Brockenhurst & Denny Lodge · E05014775
- Parish or community
- E04004564
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00116864
- 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
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 4
- 824 m
Hounsdown School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Foxhills Junior School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Foxhills Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 214
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 109
- Burglary 21
- Public order 19
- Criminal damage and arson 18
- Other theft 11
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
NEW HORIZONS MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
1 HAZEL FARM ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 8WU
ODS code J82112
2.4 km
TESTVALE SURGERY
12 SALISBURY ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 3PY
ODS code J82132
2.4 km
BROOK HOUSE SURGERY
98 OAKLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY PARK, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4NZ
ODS code J82213
4.5 km
SOLENT GP SURGERY
ADELAIDE HEALTH CENTRE, WILLIAM MACLEOD WAY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4XE
ODS code J82024
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Colbury Memorial Hall
BCT · Ashurst
- 0.3 miles
Colbury Memorial Hall
BCT · Ashurst
- 0.4 miles
Longdown Activity Farm
BCT · Colbury
- 0.4 miles
Longdown Activity Farm
BCT · Colbury
- 0.5 miles
Whartons Lane
BCT · Ashurst
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
Recorded crime
214 published events cover 12 months, averaging 17.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 109 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.