Property market
The five-year median is £287,500 from 4 recorded sales in SO40 9EL. 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 9EL
Totton South · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Southampton
- Ward
- Totton South
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO40
- Postcode sector
- SO40 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO40 9EL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO40
- Postcode sector
- SO40 9
- Latitude
- 50.911137
- Longitude
- -1.492782
- British National Grid easting
- 435,756
- British National Grid northing
- 112,531
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Totton South · E05014795
- Parish or community
- E04004587
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00117305
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 005C · E01023084
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 005 · E02004783
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
33 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Roberts Road, Totton, Southampton, SO40 9EL | 26 September 2024 | £250,000 |
| 36, Roberts Road, Totton, Southampton, SO40 9EL | 15 June 2023 | £325,000 |
| 32, Roberts Road, Totton, Southampton, SO40 9EL | 18 October 2022 | £330,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 38
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 5
- 679 m
Eling Infant School and Nursery
Community school
- 722 m
Hounsdown School
Academy converter
- 757 m
Forest Park School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,076
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 499
- Public order 107
- Anti social behaviour 93
- Criminal damage and arson 83
- Shoplifting 59
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 48
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- SO40 9 residents
- 5,420
26 female, 22 male
Age bands in SO40 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.8%
1,044 residents
589 residents
1,389 residents
1,657 residents
1,158 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SO40 9 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
7
within 5 km
TESTVALE SURGERY
12 SALISBURY ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 3PY
ODS code J82132
941 m
NEW HORIZONS MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
1 HAZEL FARM ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 8WU
ODS code J82112
1.6 km
SOLENT GP SURGERY
ADELAIDE HEALTH CENTRE, WILLIAM MACLEOD WAY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4XE
ODS code J82024
3.5 km
BROOK HOUSE SURGERY
98 OAKLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY PARK, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4NZ
ODS code J82213
3.5 km
CHEVIOT ROAD SURGERY
1 SHIRLEY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5RP
ODS code J82062
4.5 km
LORDSHILL HEALTH CENTRE
LORDSHILL DISTRICT CENTRE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 8HY
ODS code J82002
4.5 km
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
4.6 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
Clay Meadow
BCT · Rushington
- 0.2 miles
Hounsdown Avenue
BCT · Rushington
- 0.2 miles
Spicers Hill
BCT · Rushington
- 0.2 miles
Spicers Hill
BCT · Rushington
- 0.2 miles
Culford Way
BCT · Rushington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 005C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,837 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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.
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
Schools
38 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 5 secondary schools. Eling Infant School and Nursery is the nearest published school at 679 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,076 published events cover 12 months, averaging 89.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 499 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.