Property market
The five-year median is £625,000 from 5 recorded sales in SO40 7AJ. 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 7AJ
Ashurst, Bramshaw, Copythorne & Netley Marsh · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Southampton
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO40
- Postcode sector
- SO40 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO40 7AJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO40
- Postcode sector
- SO40 7
- Latitude
- 50.898397
- Longitude
- -1.534528
- British National Grid easting
- 432,830
- British National Grid northing
- 111,095
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Ashurst, Bramshaw, Copythorne & Netley Marsh · E05014771
- Parish or community
- E04004580
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00116759
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 006C · E01022979
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 006 · E02004784
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
40 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nuthatch Cottage, Hazel Grove, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7AJ | 22 August 2025 | £525,000 |
| Woodmans View, Hazel Grove, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7AJ | 15 August 2025 | £625,000 |
| Brookwood, Hazel Grove, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7AJ | 31 January 2025 | £890,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.7 km
Foxhills Infant School
Community school
- 1.8 km
Foxhills Junior School
Community school
- 2.0 km
Netley Marsh Church of England Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 82
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 39
- Burglary 13
- Vehicle crime 9
- Other theft 6
- Criminal damage and arson 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 48
- Postcode households
- 24
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- SO40 7 residents
- 5,086
25 female, 23 male
Age bands in SO40 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 28%
687 residents
434 residents
952 residents
1,607 residents
1,432 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SO40 7 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+
- 91.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 91.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 91.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 91.7%
- 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
NEW HORIZONS MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
1 HAZEL FARM ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 8WU
ODS code J82112
2.5 km
TESTVALE SURGERY
12 SALISBURY ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 3PY
ODS code J82132
3.9 km
LYNDHURST SURGERY
2 CHURCH LANE, LYNDHURST, SO43 7EW
ODS code J82146
4.1 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
- 0.2 miles
Fletchwood Lane
BCT · Ashurst
- 0.4 miles
Busketts Way
BCT · Ashurst
- 0.5 miles
Cedar View
BCT · Woodlands
- 0.5 miles
Cedar View
BCT · Woodlands
- 0.5 miles
The Gamekeeper
BCT · Woodlands
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 006C, 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
21,610 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
- 5
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
21 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Foxhills 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
82 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 39 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.