Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 4 secondary schools. Bower Lodge School is the nearest published school at 651 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO4 5TE
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 5TE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 5
- Latitude
- 50.875939
- Longitude
- -1.439866
- British National Grid easting
- 439,506
- British National Grid northing
- 108,644
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
- E00116916
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 008A · E01023007
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 008 · E02004786
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
- 15
- Secondary
- 4
- 651 m
Bower Lodge School
Other independent special school
- 651 m
Dibden Park School
Other independent special school
- 1.6 km
Marchwood Church of England Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 151
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 68
- Public order 17
- Criminal damage and arson 14
- Other theft 13
- Anti social behaviour 13
GP practices
8
within 5 km straight-line
WATERFRONT AND SOLENT SURGERY
JONES LANE, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 6AW
ODS code J82156
2.7 km
RED AND GREEN PRACTICE
WATERSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, BEAULIEU ROAD, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 5WX
ODS code J82056
3.1 km
FORESTSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEAULIEU ROAD, DIBDEN PURLIEU, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 4JA
ODS code J82072
3.1 km
ATHERLEY HOUSE SURGERY
143-145 SHIRLEY ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3FH
ODS code J82115
4.4 km
SOUTHAMPTON SEA CITY PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S SURGERY, 1 JOHNSON STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 1LT
ODS code J82081
4.5 km
HILL LANE SURGERY
162 HILL LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5DD
ODS code J82207
4.7 km
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
4.9 km
WALNUT TREE SURGERY
14 CARLTON ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 2HQ
ODS code J82605
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Garden City
BCT · Dibden
- 0.1 miles
Garden City
BCT · Dibden
- 0.4 miles
Veal's Lane
BCT · Marchwood
- 0.4 miles
Veal's Lane
BCT · Marchwood
- 0.6 miles
North Lodge
BCT · Marchwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 008A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,680 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
151 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 68 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.