Schools
38 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 5 secondary schools. Hounsdown School is the nearest published school at 553 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO4 4FX
Marchwood & Eling · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Marchwood & Eling
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO4 4FX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 4
- Latitude
- 50.905445
- Longitude
- -1.484738
- British National Grid easting
- 436,326
- British National Grid northing
- 111,902
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Marchwood & Eling · E05014786
- Parish or community
- E04004587
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00117300
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 004E · E01023085
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 004 · E02004782
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
- 553 m
Hounsdown School
Academy converter
- 945 m
Eling Infant School and Nursery
Community school
- 1.4 km
GLADE School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 678
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 300
- Public order 77
- Criminal damage and arson 61
- Anti social behaviour 52
- Other theft 39
GP practices
10
within 5 km straight-line
TESTVALE SURGERY
12 SALISBURY ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 3PY
ODS code J82132
1.6 km
NEW HORIZONS MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
1 HAZEL FARM ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 8WU
ODS code J82112
2.4 km
BROOK HOUSE SURGERY
98 OAKLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY PARK, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4NZ
ODS code J82213
3.3 km
SOLENT GP SURGERY
ADELAIDE HEALTH CENTRE, WILLIAM MACLEOD WAY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4XE
ODS code J82024
3.4 km
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
4.2 km
CHEVIOT ROAD SURGERY
1 SHIRLEY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5RP
ODS code J82062
4.2 km
ATHERLEY HOUSE SURGERY
143-145 SHIRLEY ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3FH
ODS code J82115
4.5 km
LORDSHILL HEALTH CENTRE
LORDSHILL DISTRICT CENTRE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 8HY
ODS code J82002
4.7 km
RAYMOND ROAD SURGERY
34 RAYMOND ROAD, UPPER SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5AL
ODS code J82126
4.8 km
HILL LANE SURGERY
162 HILL LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5DD
ODS code J82207
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Jacobs Gutter Lane
BCT · Hounsdown
- 0.1 miles
Marchwood By-pass
BCT · Hounsdown
- 0.2 miles
Jacobs Farm
BCT · Hounsdown
- 0.3 miles
Bulls Copse Road
BCT · Hounsdown
- 0.3 miles
Bulls Copse Road
BCT · Hounsdown
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 004E, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,009 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
678 published events cover 12 months, averaging 56.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 300 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.