Schools
59 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 8 secondary schools. Marchwood Junior School is the nearest published school at 757 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO40 4ZG
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 4ZG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO40
- Postcode sector
- SO40 4
- Latitude
- 50.892488
- Longitude
- -1.440250
- British National Grid easting
- 439,465
- British National Grid northing
- 110,484
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
- E00117118
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 59
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 8
- 757 m
Marchwood Junior School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Marchwood Church of England Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.0 km
Bower Lodge School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 283
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 150
- Other theft 32
- Anti social behaviour 24
- Criminal damage and arson 21
- Public order 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO40 4 residents
- 5,966
0 female, 2 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% 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.
GP practices
20
within 5 km straight-line
ATHERLEY HOUSE SURGERY
143-145 SHIRLEY ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3FH
ODS code J82115
2.7 km
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
3.1 km
HILL LANE SURGERY
162 HILL LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5DD
ODS code J82207
3.1 km
CHEVIOT ROAD SURGERY
1 SHIRLEY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5RP
ODS code J82062
3.3 km
BROOK HOUSE SURGERY
98 OAKLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY PARK, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4NZ
ODS code J82213
3.3 km
RAYMOND ROAD SURGERY
34 RAYMOND ROAD, UPPER SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5AL
ODS code J82126
3.3 km
SOUTHAMPTON SEA CITY PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S SURGERY, 1 JOHNSON STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 1LT
ODS code J82081
3.4 km
WALNUT TREE SURGERY
14 CARLTON ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 2HQ
ODS code J82605
3.5 km
WATERFRONT AND SOLENT SURGERY
JONES LANE, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 6AW
ODS code J82156
3.6 km
SOLENT GP SURGERY
ADELAIDE HEALTH CENTRE, WILLIAM MACLEOD WAY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4XE
ODS code J82024
3.6 km
HOMELESS HEALTHCARE TEAM
30 CRANBURY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 0LT
ODS code J82217
4.0 km
ALMA ROAD SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 68 ALMA ROAD, PORTSWOOD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 6UX
ODS code J82122
4.3 km
RED AND GREEN PRACTICE
WATERSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, BEAULIEU ROAD, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 5WX
ODS code J82056
4.5 km
TESTVALE SURGERY
12 SALISBURY ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 3PY
ODS code J82132
4.6 km
WOOLSTON AND CHARTWELL PARTNERSHIP
THE WOOLSTON LODGE SURGERY, 66 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AL
ODS code J82076
4.8 km
SPCL SURGERY
49 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code Y07819
4.8 km
ST. PETERS SURGERY
49-55 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code J82208
4.8 km
FORESTSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEAULIEU ROAD, DIBDEN PURLIEU, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 4JA
ODS code J82072
4.8 km
LIVING WELL PARTNERSHIP
WESTON LANE CTR HLTHY LVG, WESTON LANE, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9GH
ODS code J82622
4.9 km
OLD FIRE STATION SURGERY
68A PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AN
ODS code J82128
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Old Cracknore Close
BCT · Marchwood
- 0.3 miles
Autumn Road
BCT · Marchwood
- 0.3 miles
The White Horse
BCT · Marchwood
- 0.4 miles
Industrial Park
BCT · Marchwood
- 0.4 miles
The White Horse
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
283 published events cover 12 months, averaging 23.583 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.