Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 3 secondary schools. Applemore College is the nearest published school at 208 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO4 5SJ
Dibden & Dibden Purlieu · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 5SJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 5
- Latitude
- 50.861220
- Longitude
- -1.426927
- British National Grid easting
- 440,429
- British National Grid northing
- 107,014
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Dibden & Dibden Purlieu · E05014776
- Parish or community
- E04004573
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00116903
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 009B · E01023009
- 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
- 20
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 3
- 208 m
Applemore College
Foundation school
- 224 m
Greenwood School
Pupil referral unit
- 284 m
Oak Lodge School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 463
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 214
- Criminal damage and arson 45
- Public order 41
- Shoplifting 36
- Other theft 31
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
FORESTSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEAULIEU ROAD, DIBDEN PURLIEU, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 4JA
ODS code J82072
1.3 km
RED AND GREEN PRACTICE
WATERSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, BEAULIEU ROAD, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 5WX
ODS code J82056
1.6 km
WATERFRONT AND SOLENT SURGERY
JONES LANE, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 6AW
ODS code J82156
1.9 km
LIVING WELL PARTNERSHIP
WESTON LANE CTR HLTHY LVG, WESTON LANE, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9GH
ODS code J82622
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Beechwood Way
BCT · Applemore
- 0.2 miles
The Sylvans
BCT · Applemore
- 0.2 miles
The Sylvans
BCT · Applemore
- 0.2 miles
College Only
BCT · Applemore
- 0.2 miles
Oaklands Way
BCT · Dibden Purlieu
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 009B, 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
31,592 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
463 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 214 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.