Property market
The five-year median is £1,030,000 from 1 recorded sale in SO40 4AF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for New Forest is £380,310 in June 2026, up 1.2% year on year.
SO40 4AF
Marchwood & Eling · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Southampton
- Ward
- Marchwood & Eling
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO40
- Postcode sector
- SO40 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO40 4AF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2003
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO40
- Postcode sector
- SO40 4
- Latitude
- 50.894796
- Longitude
- -1.430312
- British National Grid easting
- 440,162
- British National Grid northing
- 110,746
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Marchwood & Eling · E05014786
- Parish or community
- E04004576
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00117124
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 008E · E01023049
- 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 SO40
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Unit 5, Harbour Close, Marchwood, Southampton, SO40 4AF | 26 September 2025 | £1,030,000 |
| Unit 3-4, Harbour Close, Marchwood, Southampton, SO40 4AF | 4 August 2017 | £565,000 |
| Unit 2, Harbour Close, Marchwood, Southampton, SO40 4AF | 21 April 2015 | £408,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 63
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 8
- 1.5 km
Marchwood Junior School
Community school
- 1.8 km
St John's Primary and Nursery School
Foundation school
- 1.8 km
Oaktree Education Services Limited
Special post 16 institution
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 236
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 114
- Other theft 29
- Criminal damage and arson 22
- Anti social behaviour 21
- Public order 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO40 4 residents
- 5,966
Age bands in SO40 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.2%
1,054 residents
560 residents
1,524 residents
1,590 residents
1,049 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
19
within 5 km
ATHERLEY HOUSE SURGERY
143-145 SHIRLEY ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3FH
ODS code J82115
2.2 km
HILL LANE SURGERY
162 HILL LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5DD
ODS code J82207
2.6 km
SOUTHAMPTON SEA CITY PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S SURGERY, 1 JOHNSON STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 1LT
ODS code J82081
2.6 km
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
2.7 km
WALNUT TREE SURGERY
14 CARLTON ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 2HQ
ODS code J82605
2.8 km
RAYMOND ROAD SURGERY
34 RAYMOND ROAD, UPPER SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5AL
ODS code J82126
2.8 km
CHEVIOT ROAD SURGERY
1 SHIRLEY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5RP
ODS code J82062
2.9 km
BROOK HOUSE SURGERY
98 OAKLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY PARK, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4NZ
ODS code J82213
3.2 km
HOMELESS HEALTHCARE TEAM
30 CRANBURY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 0LT
ODS code J82217
3.3 km
WATERFRONT AND SOLENT SURGERY
JONES LANE, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 6AW
ODS code J82156
3.3 km
SOLENT GP SURGERY
ADELAIDE HEALTH CENTRE, WILLIAM MACLEOD WAY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4XE
ODS code J82024
3.5 km
ALMA ROAD SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 68 ALMA ROAD, PORTSWOOD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 6UX
ODS code J82122
3.7 km
WOOLSTON AND CHARTWELL PARTNERSHIP
THE WOOLSTON LODGE SURGERY, 66 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AL
ODS code J82076
4.1 km
SPCL SURGERY
49 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code Y07819
4.1 km
ST. PETERS SURGERY
49-55 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code J82208
4.1 km
LIVING WELL PARTNERSHIP
WESTON LANE CTR HLTHY LVG, WESTON LANE, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9GH
ODS code J82622
4.3 km
OLD FIRE STATION SURGERY
68A PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AN
ODS code J82128
4.3 km
RED AND GREEN PRACTICE
WATERSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, BEAULIEU ROAD, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 5WX
ODS code J82056
4.4 km
FORESTSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEAULIEU ROAD, DIBDEN PURLIEU, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 4JA
ODS code J82072
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Construction & Marine Tech Centr SCH
BCT · Marchwood
- 0.6 miles
Construction & Marine Tech Centr SCH
BCT · Marchwood
- 0.7 miles
Old Cracknore Close
BCT · Marchwood
- 0.7 miles
Autumn Road
BCT · Marchwood
- 0.7 miles
Industrial Park
BCT · Marchwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 008E, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,320 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
63 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 8 secondary schools. Marchwood Junior School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
236 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 114 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.