Property market
The five-year median is £925,000 from 1 recorded sale in SO40 4UQ. 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 4UQ
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 4UQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO40
- Postcode sector
- SO40 4
- Latitude
- 50.871060
- Longitude
- -1.457717
- British National Grid easting
- 438,254
- British National Grid northing
- 108,092
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
- E00117117
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 008F · E01023050
- 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
31 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Birchlands, Beaulieu Road, Marchwood, Southampton, SO40 4UQ | 25 April 2024 | £925,000 |
| Poniente, Beaulieu Road, Marchwood, Southampton, SO40 4UQ | 7 November 2019 | £535,000 |
| Pony Trail, Beaulieu Road, Marchwood, Southampton, SO40 4UQ | 15 February 2019 | £720,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.6 km
Marchwood Church of England Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.0 km
Bower Lodge School
Other independent special school
- 2.0 km
Dibden Park School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 40
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 21
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Other theft 5
- Burglary 2
- Public order 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 56
- Postcode households
- 26
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- SO40 4 residents
- 5,966
27 female, 29 male
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
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SO40 4 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 84%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 84%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 84%
- Gigabit-capable
- 84%
- 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
FORESTSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEAULIEU ROAD, DIBDEN PURLIEU, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 4JA
ODS code J82072
3.6 km
WATERFRONT AND SOLENT SURGERY
JONES LANE, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 6AW
ODS code J82156
3.8 km
RED AND GREEN PRACTICE
WATERSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, BEAULIEU ROAD, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 5WX
ODS code J82056
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.9 miles
Garden City
BCT · Dibden
- 0.9 miles
Garden City
BCT · Dibden
- 1.0 miles
North Lodge
BCT · Marchwood
- 1.0 miles
North Lodge
BCT · Marchwood
- 1.0 miles
Veal's Lane
BCT · Marchwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 008F, 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
23,424 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
17 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 3 secondary schools. Marchwood Church of England Infant School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
40 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 21 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.