Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Southlands School is the nearest published school at 779 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO41 8XT
Lymington · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lymington
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West
- Postcode district
- SO41
- Postcode sector
- SO41 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO41 8XT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 2003
- Terminated
- 1 May 2004
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO41
- Postcode sector
- SO41 8
- Latitude
- 50.772165
- Longitude
- -1.549990
- British National Grid easting
- 431,828
- British National Grid northing
- 97,051
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Lymington · E05014784
- Parish or community
- E04004574
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest West · E14001374
- Output area
- E00116878
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 019B · E01023002
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 019 · E02004797
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 SO41
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 779 m
Southlands School
Other independent special school
- 1.2 km
Lymington Junior School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Hill House School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 431
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 170
- Shoplifting 57
- Anti social behaviour 50
- Criminal damage and arson 40
- Public order 34
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO41 8 residents
- 7,226
Age bands in SO41 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.1%
1,021 residents
641 residents
1,313 residents
2,071 residents
2,068 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
WISTARIA & MILFORD SURGERIES
WISTARIA SURGERY, WISTARIA CT, 18 AVENUE RD, LYMINGTON, SO41 9GJ
ODS code J82139
1.4 km
CHAWTON HOUSE SURGERY
43-45 ST. THOMAS STREET, LYMINGTON, SO41 9ND
ODS code J82075
1.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Ricardo Way
BCT · Lower Buckland
- 0.1 miles
Ricardo Way
BCT · Lower Buckland
- 0.3 miles
Shallowmead Nursery
BCT · St Austins
- 0.3 miles
Shallowmead Nursery
BCT · St Austins
- 0.3 miles
Bank View
BCT · Lower Buckland
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 019B, 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
20,423 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
431 published events cover 12 months, averaging 35.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 170 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.