Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Brockenhurst College is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO42 7US
Brockenhurst & Denny Lodge · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO42
- Postcode sector
- SO42 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO42 7US
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO42
- Postcode sector
- SO42 7
- Latitude
- 50.811817
- Longitude
- -1.534806
- British National Grid easting
- 432,871
- British National Grid northing
- 101,467
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Brockenhurst & Denny Lodge · E05014775
- Parish or community
- E04004560
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00116859
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 015C · E01022998
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 015 · E02004793
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 SO42
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.7 km
Brockenhurst College
Further education
- 3.1 km
Brockenhurst Church of England Primary School & Pre-School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.3 km
William Gilpin Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Public order 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO42 7 residents
- 4,864
Age bands in SO42 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.6%
716 residents
418 residents
820 residents
1,597 residents
1,637 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
NEW FOREST MEDICAL GROUP
SURGERIES AT SWAY & BROCKENHURST, HIGHWOOD ROAD, BROCKENHURST, SO42 7RY
ODS code J82129
3.0 km
Nearby transport
- 1.8 miles
Pilley Pond
BCT · Pilley
- 1.8 miles
Pilley Pond
BCT · Pilley
- 1.9 miles
Boldre Bridge
BCT · Pilley
- 2.0 miles
Boldre Bridge
BCT · Pilley
- 2.0 miles
May Lane
BCT · Pilley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 015C, 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
29,946 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Public order with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.