Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 3 secondary schools. Foxhills Infant School is the nearest published school at 639 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO40 7ZJ
Ashurst, Bramshaw, Copythorne & Netley Marsh · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 7ZJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO40
- Postcode sector
- SO40 7
- Latitude
- 50.905321
- Longitude
- -1.521047
- British National Grid easting
- 433,773
- British National Grid northing
- 111,871
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
- E00116757
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 006D · E01022980
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 3
- 639 m
Foxhills Infant School
Community school
- 769 m
Foxhills Junior School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Netley Marsh Church of England Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 326
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 169
- Burglary 28
- Public order 27
- Criminal damage and arson 27
- Anti social behaviour 23
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO40 7 residents
- 5,086
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
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
NEW HORIZONS MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
1 HAZEL FARM ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 8WU
ODS code J82112
1.4 km
TESTVALE SURGERY
12 SALISBURY ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 3PY
ODS code J82132
2.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Foxhills Close
BCT · Ashurst
- 0.4 miles
Foxhills Close
BCT · Ashurst
- 0.4 miles
Whartons Lane
BCT · Ashurst
- 0.4 miles
Whartons Lane
BCT · Ashurst
- 0.4 miles
Foxhills School
BCT · Ashurst
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 006D, 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
20,737 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
326 published events cover 12 months, averaging 27.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 169 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.