SO42 7XB

Forest & Solent · New Forest · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Forest & Solent
Local authority: New Forest
Constituency: New Forest East
Postcode district: SO42
Postcode sector: SO42 7

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
SO42 7XD	570 m
SO42 7XA	955 m
SO42 7XE	960 m
SO45 1AG	990 m
SO45 1AZ	1.6 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: SO42 7XB
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1986
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: SO
Postcode district: SO42
Postcode sector: SO42 7
Latitude: 50.798693
Longitude: -1.421376
British National Grid easting: 440,874
British National Grid northing: 100,064

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: South East · E12000008
Local authority district: New Forest · E07000091
Electoral ward: Forest & Solent · E05014780
Parish or community: E04004555
Westminster constituency: New Forest East · E14001373
Output area: E00116852
Lower layer super output area: New Forest 017B · E01022999
Middle layer super output area: New Forest 017 · E02004795

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

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Open schools: 5
Primary: 4
Secondary: 1

Beaulieu Village Primary School

Community school
3.0 km
Blackfield Primary and Nursery School

Academy converter
4.1 km
Cadland Primary School

Community school
4.1 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 19
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Other theft 9
Vehicle crime 5
Burglary 3
Criminal damage and arson 2

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 15
Postcode households: 7
Residents per household: 2.1
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%

This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SO42 7 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+: 94.1%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 0%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 0%
Gigabit-capable: 0%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 5.9%
Next Generation Access: 94.1%
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.

Nearby transport

Visitor Car Park

BCT · Bucklers Hard
0.1 miles
Exbury Gardens

BCT · Exbury
1.0 miles
Gins Lane

BCT · Bucklers Hard
1.2 miles
Gins Lane

BCT · Bucklers Hard
1.2 miles
Dock Lane

BCT · Beaulieu
1.8 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 017B, 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

5 of 10

Overall England rank

14,358 of 33,755

Income: 8 of 10
Employment: 10 of 10
Education and skills: 6 of 10
Health and disability: 10 of 10
Crime: 5 of 10
Housing and services: 1 of 10
Living environment: 1 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: 1
Medium risk addresses: 1
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

5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Beaulieu Village Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.9 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

19 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 9 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.