Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 3 secondary schools. Applemore College is the nearest published school at 323 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO45 5WR
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 5WR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO45
- Postcode sector
- SO45 5
- Latitude
- 50.858687
- Longitude
- -1.427512
- British National Grid easting
- 440,390
- British National Grid northing
- 106,732
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
- E00116903
- 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
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Beechwood Way, Dibden Purlieu, Southampton, SO45 5WR | 4 February 2019 | £345,000 |
| 2, Beechwood Way, Dibden Purlieu, Southampton, SO45 5WR | 14 February 2018 | £290,000 |
| 8, Beechwood Way, Dibden Purlieu, Southampton, SO45 5WR | 4 July 2014 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 3
- 323 m
Applemore College
Foundation school
- 430 m
Oak Lodge School
Community special school
- 509 m
Greenwood School
Pupil referral unit
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 456
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 211
- Criminal damage and arson 44
- Public order 41
- Shoplifting 36
- Other theft 30
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- SO45 5 residents
- 7,132
10 female, 8 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 0.3% 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
FORESTSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
BEAULIEU ROAD, DIBDEN PURLIEU, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 4JA
ODS code J82072
1.1 km
RED AND GREEN PRACTICE
WATERSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, BEAULIEU ROAD, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 5WX
ODS code J82056
1.6 km
WATERFRONT AND SOLENT SURGERY
JONES LANE, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 6AW
ODS code J82156
2.1 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
- 0.2 miles
Beechwood Way
BCT · Applemore
- 0.2 miles
College Only
BCT · Applemore
- 0.2 miles
Oaklands Way
BCT · Dibden Purlieu
- 0.3 miles
Oaklands Way
BCT · Dibden Purlieu
- 0.3 miles
The Sylvans
BCT · Applemore
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.
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
456 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 211 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.