Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 3 secondary schools. Noadswood School is the nearest published school at 209 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO45 4RU
Dibden & Dibden Purlieu · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO45
- Postcode sector
- SO45 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO45 4RU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 May 2013
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO45
- Postcode sector
- SO45 4
- Latitude
- 50.858255
- Longitude
- -1.420128
- British National Grid easting
- 440,910
- British National Grid northing
- 106,688
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Dibden & Dibden Purlieu · E05014776
- Parish or community
- E04004573
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00116904
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 009B · E01023009
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 009 · E02004787
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
- 20
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 3
- 209 m
Noadswood School
Academy converter
- 586 m
Orchard Infant School
Academy converter
- 586 m
Orchard Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 673
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 302
- Criminal damage and arson 77
- Shoplifting 60
- Public order 52
- Anti social behaviour 47
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO45 4 residents
- 4,890
Age bands in SO45 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.8%
743 residents
478 residents
974 residents
1,484 residents
1,564 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
FORESTSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEAULIEU ROAD, DIBDEN PURLIEU, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 4JA
ODS code J82072
758 m
RED AND GREEN PRACTICE
WATERSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, BEAULIEU ROAD, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 5WX
ODS code J82056
1.1 km
WATERFRONT AND SOLENT SURGERY
JONES LANE, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 6AW
ODS code J82156
1.8 km
LIVING WELL PARTNERSHIP
WESTON LANE CTR HLTHY LVG, WESTON LANE, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9GH
ODS code J82622
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lime Walk
BCT · Dibden Purlieu
- 0.1 miles
Lime Walk
BCT · Dibden Purlieu
- 0.1 miles
Oaklands Way
BCT · Dibden Purlieu
- 0.1 miles
Kensington Fields
BCT · Dibden Purlieu
- 0.1 miles
Oaklands Way
BCT · Dibden Purlieu
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 009B, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,592 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
673 published events cover 12 months, averaging 56.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 302 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.