Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 4 secondary schools. Orchard Infant School is the nearest published school at 453 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO4 5BQ
Hythe Central · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hythe Central
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO4 5BQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 5
- Latitude
- 50.859752
- Longitude
- -1.406725
- British National Grid easting
- 441,852
- British National Grid northing
- 106,862
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Hythe Central · E05014782
- Parish or community
- E04004573
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00117072
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 009C · E01023038
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 009 · E02004787
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
- 27
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 4
- 453 m
Orchard Infant School
Academy converter
- 453 m
Orchard Junior School
Community school
- 681 m
Wildground Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,058
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 501
- Criminal damage and arson 108
- Anti social behaviour 83
- Shoplifting 79
- Public order 77
GP practices
8
within 5 km straight-line
RED AND GREEN PRACTICE
WATERSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, BEAULIEU ROAD, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 5WX
ODS code J82056
197 m
FORESTSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEAULIEU ROAD, DIBDEN PURLIEU, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 4JA
ODS code J82072
1.1 km
WATERFRONT AND SOLENT SURGERY
JONES LANE, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 6AW
ODS code J82156
1.2 km
LIVING WELL PARTNERSHIP
WESTON LANE CTR HLTHY LVG, WESTON LANE, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9GH
ODS code J82622
4.1 km
WOOLSTON AND CHARTWELL PARTNERSHIP
THE WOOLSTON LODGE SURGERY, 66 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AL
ODS code J82076
4.8 km
OLD FIRE STATION SURGERY
68A PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AN
ODS code J82128
4.8 km
SPCL SURGERY
49 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code Y07819
4.9 km
ST. PETERS SURGERY
49-55 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code J82208
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Highlands Way
BCT · Dibden Purlieu
- 0.1 miles
Highlands Way
BCT · Dibden Purlieu
- 0.1 miles
Mullins Lane
BCT · Hythe
- 0.1 miles
Golden Hind Park
BCT · Dibden Purlieu
- 0.1 miles
Golden Hind Park
BCT · Dibden Purlieu
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 009C, 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
32,509 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
1,058 published events cover 12 months, averaging 88.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 501 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.