Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Coxlease School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO43 7PN
Lyndhurst & Minstead · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Ward
- Lyndhurst & Minstead
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO43
- Postcode sector
- SO43 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO43 7PN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- 1 January 2009
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO43
- Postcode sector
- SO43 7
- Latitude
- 50.843738
- Longitude
- -1.573846
- British National Grid easting
- 430,100
- British National Grid northing
- 105,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Lyndhurst & Minstead · E05014785
- Parish or community
- E04004575
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00183035
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 007D · E01023046
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 007 · E02004785
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 SO43
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.7 km
Coxlease School
Other independent special school
- 2.0 km
Clay Hill School
Other independent special school
- 2.5 km
Brockenhurst College
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Vehicle crime 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
- SO43 7 residents
- 4,379
Age bands in SO43 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.8%
483 residents
327 residents
716 residents
1,386 residents
1,423 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
LYNDHURST SURGERY
2 CHURCH LANE, LYNDHURST, SO43 7EW
ODS code J82146
3.2 km
NEW FOREST MEDICAL GROUP
SURGERIES AT SWAY & BROCKENHURST, HIGHWOOD ROAD, BROCKENHURST, SO42 7RY
ODS code J82129
3.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
New Park
BCT · Balmer Lawn
- 0.2 miles
New Park
BCT · Balmer Lawn
- 0.2 miles
New Forest Show
BCT · Balmer Lawn
- 1.1 miles
Clay Hill Schools
BCT · Clayhill
- 1.1 miles
Balmer Lawn Hotel
BCT · Balmer Lawn
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 007D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,882 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.