Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. Lift New Forest is the nearest published school at 498 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO45 2ZA
Hardley, Holbury & North Blackfield · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO45
- Postcode sector
- SO45 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO45 2ZA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO45
- Postcode sector
- SO45 2
- Latitude
- 50.837552
- Longitude
- -1.394963
- British National Grid easting
- 442,700
- British National Grid northing
- 104,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Hardley, Holbury & North Blackfield · E05014781
- Parish or community
- E04004568
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00117006
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 014E · E01023027
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 014 · E02004792
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 SO45
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 3
- 498 m
Lift New Forest
Academy sponsor led
- 516 m
Manor Church of England Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.2 km
Cadland Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 495
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 276
- Anti social behaviour 58
- Criminal damage and arson 45
- Public order 30
- Burglary 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO45 2 residents
- 6,575
Age bands in SO45 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.6%
1,095 residents
607 residents
1,426 residents
1,766 residents
1,597 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
FORESTSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEAULIEU ROAD, DIBDEN PURLIEU, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 4JA
ODS code J82072
2.2 km
RED AND GREEN PRACTICE
WATERSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, BEAULIEU ROAD, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 5WX
ODS code J82056
2.4 km
WATERFRONT AND SOLENT SURGERY
JONES LANE, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 6AW
ODS code J82156
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Lime Kiln Lane
BCT · Hardley
- 0.3 miles
Lime Kiln Lane
BCT · Hardley
- 0.4 miles
Secondary School
BCT · Hardley
- 0.5 miles
Hardley Roundabout
BCT · Hardley
- 0.5 miles
Hardley Roundabout
BCT · Hardley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 014E, 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
17,135 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
495 published events cover 12 months, averaging 41.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 276 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.