Schools
38 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 5 secondary schools. Oakfield Academy is the nearest published school at 288 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO4 3LJ
Totton Central · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Totton Central
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO4 3LJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 3
- Latitude
- 50.923702
- Longitude
- -1.497440
- British National Grid easting
- 435,419
- British National Grid northing
- 113,926
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Totton Central · E05014793
- Parish or community
- E04004587
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00117257
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 002A · E01023076
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 002 · E02004780
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
- 38
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 5
- 288 m
Oakfield Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 398 m
Testwood School
Academy converter
- 589 m
Lydlynch Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,590
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 766
- Public order 149
- Anti social behaviour 133
- Criminal damage and arson 121
- Other theft 85
GP practices
7
within 5 km straight-line
TESTVALE SURGERY
12 SALISBURY ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 3PY
ODS code J82132
715 m
NEW HORIZONS MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
1 HAZEL FARM ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 8WU
ODS code J82112
1.4 km
SOLENT GP SURGERY
ADELAIDE HEALTH CENTRE, WILLIAM MACLEOD WAY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4XE
ODS code J82024
3.5 km
BROOK HOUSE SURGERY
98 OAKLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY PARK, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4NZ
ODS code J82213
3.6 km
LORDSHILL HEALTH CENTRE
LORDSHILL DISTRICT CENTRE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 8HY
ODS code J82002
3.9 km
CHEVIOT ROAD SURGERY
1 SHIRLEY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5RP
ODS code J82062
4.7 km
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Testwood Lane
BCT · Totton
- 0.1 miles
Testwood Lane
BCT · Totton
- 0.2 miles
Sylvia Crescent
BCT · Testwood
- 0.3 miles
Hammonds Lane
BCT · Totton
- 0.3 miles
Hammonds Lane
BCT · Totton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 002A, 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
30,285 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,590 published events cover 12 months, averaging 132.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 766 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.