Schools
51 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 8 secondary schools. Marchwood Junior School is the nearest published school at 316 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO40 4XA
Marchwood & Eling · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 4XA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO40
- Postcode sector
- SO40 4
- Latitude
- 50.889135
- Longitude
- -1.453797
- British National Grid easting
- 438,515
- British National Grid northing
- 110,104
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
- E00117122
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 51
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 8
- 316 m
Marchwood Junior School
Community school
- 428 m
Marchwood Church of England Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.3 km
Bower Lodge School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 275
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 150
- Other theft 28
- Anti social behaviour 22
- Criminal damage and arson 20
- Public order 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 50
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 5.6
- SO40 4 residents
- 5,966
28 female, 22 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 0.8% 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
14
within 5 km
ATHERLEY HOUSE SURGERY
143-145 SHIRLEY ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3FH
ODS code J82115
3.5 km
BROOK HOUSE SURGERY
98 OAKLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY PARK, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4NZ
ODS code J82213
3.7 km
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
3.8 km
CHEVIOT ROAD SURGERY
1 SHIRLEY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5RP
ODS code J82062
3.9 km
SOLENT GP SURGERY
ADELAIDE HEALTH CENTRE, WILLIAM MACLEOD WAY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4XE
ODS code J82024
4.0 km
HILL LANE SURGERY
162 HILL LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5DD
ODS code J82207
4.0 km
RAYMOND ROAD SURGERY
34 RAYMOND ROAD, UPPER SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5AL
ODS code J82126
4.1 km
WATERFRONT AND SOLENT SURGERY
JONES LANE, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 6AW
ODS code J82156
4.1 km
TESTVALE SURGERY
12 SALISBURY ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 3PY
ODS code J82132
4.2 km
SOUTHAMPTON SEA CITY PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S SURGERY, 1 JOHNSON STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 1LT
ODS code J82081
4.4 km
WALNUT TREE SURGERY
14 CARLTON ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 2HQ
ODS code J82605
4.4 km
RED AND GREEN PRACTICE
WATERSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, BEAULIEU ROAD, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 5WX
ODS code J82056
4.9 km
FORESTSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEAULIEU ROAD, DIBDEN PURLIEU, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 4JA
ODS code J82072
4.9 km
HOMELESS HEALTHCARE TEAM
30 CRANBURY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 0LT
ODS code J82217
5.0 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
- 0.1 miles
St Johns Church
BCT · Marchwood
- 0.1 miles
St Johns Church
BCT · Marchwood
- 0.1 miles
Lakeland Gardens
BCT · Marchwood
- 0.1 miles
Lakeland Gardens
BCT · Marchwood
- 0.2 miles
Twiggs 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
- 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
Recorded crime
275 published events cover 12 months, averaging 22.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 150 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.