Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Bower Lodge School is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO45 5TD
Dibden & Dibden Purlieu · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Southampton
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO45
- Postcode sector
- SO45 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO45 5TD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO45
- Postcode sector
- SO45 5
- Latitude
- 50.875113
- Longitude
- -1.430708
- British National Grid easting
- 440,151
- British National Grid northing
- 108,557
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
- E00116916
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 008A · E01023007
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 008 · E02004786
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
Property
18 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Dibden Manor, Main Road, Dibden, Southampton, SO45 5TD | 17 June 2021 | £1,300,000 |
| Locks House, Main Road, Dibden, Southampton, SO45 5TD | 15 June 2021 | £1,300,000 |
| Dibden Manor Cottage, Main Road, Dibden, Southampton, SO45 5TD | 4 August 2017 | £1,900,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 0 m
Bower Lodge School
Other independent special school
- 0 m
Dibden Park School
Other independent special school
- 1.4 km
Greenwood School
Pupil referral unit
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 207
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 99
- Public order 21
- Criminal damage and arson 20
- Other theft 16
- Anti social behaviour 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 44
- Postcode households
- 14
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- SO45 5 residents
- 7,132
24 female, 20 male
Age bands in SO45 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.4%
1,044 residents
611 residents
1,440 residents
1,984 residents
1,917 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SO45 5 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+
- 88.2%
- 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
- 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.
GP practices
14
within 5 km
WATERFRONT AND SOLENT SURGERY
JONES LANE, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 6AW
ODS code J82156
2.0 km
RED AND GREEN PRACTICE
WATERSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, BEAULIEU ROAD, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 5WX
ODS code J82056
2.6 km
FORESTSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEAULIEU ROAD, DIBDEN PURLIEU, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 4JA
ODS code J82072
2.8 km
SOUTHAMPTON SEA CITY PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S SURGERY, 1 JOHNSON STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 1LT
ODS code J82081
4.1 km
ATHERLEY HOUSE SURGERY
143-145 SHIRLEY ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3FH
ODS code J82115
4.3 km
LIVING WELL PARTNERSHIP
WESTON LANE CTR HLTHY LVG, WESTON LANE, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9GH
ODS code J82622
4.5 km
HILL LANE SURGERY
162 HILL LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5DD
ODS code J82207
4.6 km
WOOLSTON AND CHARTWELL PARTNERSHIP
THE WOOLSTON LODGE SURGERY, 66 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AL
ODS code J82076
4.8 km
WALNUT TREE SURGERY
14 CARLTON ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 2HQ
ODS code J82605
4.8 km
SPCL SURGERY
49 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code Y07819
4.8 km
ST. PETERS SURGERY
49-55 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code J82208
4.8 km
OLD FIRE STATION SURGERY
68A PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WESTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9AN
ODS code J82128
4.9 km
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
4.9 km
RAYMOND ROAD SURGERY
34 RAYMOND ROAD, UPPER SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5AL
ODS code J82126
5.0 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
- 0.4 miles
Garden City
BCT · Dibden
- 0.4 miles
Garden City
BCT · Dibden
- 0.6 miles
Drapers Copse
BCT · Dibden
- 0.6 miles
Drapers Copse
BCT · Dibden
- 0.6 miles
Old Post Office - del nov23
BCT · Dibden
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 008A, 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
18,680 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 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.
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
207 published events cover 12 months, averaging 17.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 99 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.