Schools
38 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 5 secondary schools. Oakfield Academy is the nearest published school at 344 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO40 3ZP
Totton Central · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Totton Central
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO40
- Postcode sector
- SO40 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO40 3ZP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO40
- Postcode sector
- SO40 3
- Latitude
- 50.927595
- Longitude
- -1.499418
- British National Grid easting
- 435,277
- British National Grid northing
- 114,358
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Totton Central · E05014793
- Parish or community
- E04004587
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00117274
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 004D · E01023079
- 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 SO40
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 38
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 5
- 344 m
Oakfield Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 539 m
Testwood School
Academy converter
- 995 m
Calmore Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,414
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 685
- Public order 128
- Anti social behaviour 113
- Criminal damage and arson 102
- Other theft 79
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO40 3 residents
- 7,597
Age bands in SO40 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.9%
1,161 residents
742 residents
1,697 residents
2,056 residents
1,973 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
6
within 5 km
TESTVALE SURGERY
12 SALISBURY ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 3PY
ODS code J82132
1.1 km
NEW HORIZONS MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
1 HAZEL FARM ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 8WU
ODS code J82112
1.6 km
SOLENT GP SURGERY
ADELAIDE HEALTH CENTRE, WILLIAM MACLEOD WAY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4XE
ODS code J82024
3.6 km
BROOK HOUSE SURGERY
98 OAKLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY PARK, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4NZ
ODS code J82213
3.8 km
LORDSHILL HEALTH CENTRE
LORDSHILL DISTRICT CENTRE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 8HY
ODS code J82002
3.9 km
CHEVIOT ROAD SURGERY
1 SHIRLEY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5RP
ODS code J82062
4.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Sylvia Crescent
BCT · Testwood
- 0.1 miles
Sylvia Crescent
BCT · Testwood
- 0.1 miles
Stanley Road
BCT · Testwood
- 0.2 miles
Stanley Road
BCT · Testwood
- 0.3 miles
Testwood Lane
BCT · Totton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 004D, 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
17,760 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,414 published events cover 12 months, averaging 117.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 685 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.