Schools
36 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 5 secondary schools. Hounsdown School is the nearest published school at 329 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO40 9RB
Totton South · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 9RB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 2002
- Terminated
- 1 October 2008
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO40
- Postcode sector
- SO40 9
- Latitude
- 50.901937
- Longitude
- -1.490649
- British National Grid easting
- 435,913
- British National Grid northing
- 111,509
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
- E00117299
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 004E · E01023085
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 004 · E02004782
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
- 36
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 5
- 329 m
Hounsdown School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Eling Infant School and Nursery
Community school
- 1.4 km
Foxhills Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 375
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 179
- Public order 42
- Criminal damage and arson 41
- Anti social behaviour 29
- Other theft 20
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO40 9 residents
- 5,420
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
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
TESTVALE SURGERY
12 SALISBURY ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 3PY
ODS code J82132
1.9 km
NEW HORIZONS MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
1 HAZEL FARM ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 8WU
ODS code J82112
2.3 km
BROOK HOUSE SURGERY
98 OAKLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY PARK, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4NZ
ODS code J82213
3.8 km
SOLENT GP SURGERY
ADELAIDE HEALTH CENTRE, WILLIAM MACLEOD WAY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4XE
ODS code J82024
3.9 km
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
4.7 km
CHEVIOT ROAD SURGERY
1 SHIRLEY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5RP
ODS code J82062
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Bulls Copse Road
BCT · Hounsdown
- 0.2 miles
Bulls Copse Road
BCT · Hounsdown
- 0.3 miles
Valley Road
BCT · Hounsdown
- 0.3 miles
Marchwood By-pass
BCT · Hounsdown
- 0.4 miles
Jacobs Gutter Lane
BCT · Hounsdown
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 004E, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,009 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
375 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 179 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.