Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 3 secondary schools. Lift New Forest is the nearest published school at 486 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO45 3NZ
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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO45 3NZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2006
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO45
- Postcode sector
- SO45 3
- Latitude
- 50.841058
- Longitude
- -1.389635
- British National Grid easting
- 443,072
- British National Grid northing
- 104,793
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
- E00117005
- 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
- 18
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 3
- 486 m
Lift New Forest
Academy sponsor led
- 831 m
Manor Church of England Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.5 km
Cadland Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 505
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 268
- Criminal damage and arson 55
- Anti social behaviour 54
- Public order 32
- Burglary 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO45 3 residents
- 4,795
Age bands in SO45 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.8%
895 residents
450 residents
1,068 residents
1,163 residents
829 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- 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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
RED AND GREEN PRACTICE
WATERSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, BEAULIEU ROAD, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 5WX
ODS code J82056
2.2 km
FORESTSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEAULIEU ROAD, DIBDEN PURLIEU, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 4JA
ODS code J82072
2.2 km
WATERFRONT AND SOLENT SURGERY
JONES LANE, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 6AW
ODS code J82156
3.4 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lime Kiln Lane
BCT · Hardley
- 0.1 miles
Lime Kiln Lane
BCT · Hardley
- 0.2 miles
Hardley Roundabout
BCT · Hardley
- 0.3 miles
Hardley Roundabout
BCT · Hardley
- 0.3 miles
Secondary School
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.
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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
505 published events cover 12 months, averaging 42.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 268 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.