Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 4 secondary schools. Orchard Infant School is the nearest published school at 546 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO4 5EZ
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 5EZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 5
- Latitude
- 50.861606
- Longitude
- -1.405238
- British National Grid easting
- 441,955
- British National Grid northing
- 107,069
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
- E00117056
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 009D · E01023039
- 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
- 29
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 4
- 546 m
Orchard Infant School
Academy converter
- 546 m
Orchard Junior School
Community school
- 724 m
Waterside Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 997
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 467
- Criminal damage and arson 101
- Shoplifting 79
- Anti social behaviour 74
- Public order 73
GP practices
9
within 5 km straight-line
RED AND GREEN PRACTICE
WATERSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, BEAULIEU ROAD, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 5WX
ODS code J82056
341 m
WATERFRONT AND SOLENT SURGERY
JONES LANE, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 6AW
ODS code J82156
943 m
FORESTSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEAULIEU ROAD, DIBDEN PURLIEU, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 4JA
ODS code J82072
1.3 km
LIVING WELL PARTNERSHIP
WESTON LANE CTR HLTHY LVG, WESTON LANE, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9GH
ODS code J82622
3.8 km
WOOLSTON AND CHARTWELL PARTNERSHIP
THE WOOLSTON LODGE SURGERY, 66 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AL
ODS code J82076
4.6 km
OLD FIRE STATION SURGERY
68A PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AN
ODS code J82128
4.6 km
SPCL SURGERY
49 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code Y07819
4.6 km
ST. PETERS SURGERY
49-55 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code J82208
4.6 km
SOUTHAMPTON SEA CITY PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S SURGERY, 1 JOHNSON STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 1LT
ODS code J82081
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Mullins Lane
BCT · Hythe
- 0.2 miles
Fern Road
BCT · Hythe
- 0.2 miles
Deerleap Way
BCT · Hythe
- 0.2 miles
Highlands Way
BCT · Dibden Purlieu
- 0.2 miles
Deerleap Way
BCT · Hythe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 009D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,111 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
997 published events cover 12 months, averaging 83.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 467 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.