Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Wellow Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO5 0AQ
Ashurst, Bramshaw, Copythorne & Netley Marsh · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO5
- Postcode sector
- SO5 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO5 0AQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO5
- Postcode sector
- SO5 0
- Latitude
- 50.962430
- Longitude
- -1.571336
- British National Grid easting
- 430,200
- British National Grid northing
- 118,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Ashurst, Bramshaw, Copythorne & Netley Marsh · E05014771
- Parish or community
- E04004562
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00116828
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 007A · E01022992
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 007 · E02004785
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
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Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.4 km
Wellow Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.3 km
Embley
Other independent school
- 3.4 km
Copythorne CofE Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 79
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 38
- Criminal damage and arson 13
- Other theft 8
- Burglary 6
- Anti social behaviour 6
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Blackhill Road
BCT · Blackhill
- 0.1 miles
Blackhill Road
BCT · Blackhill
- 0.2 miles
Whinwhistle Corner
BCT · West Wellow
- 0.3 miles
Whinwhistle Corner
BCT · West Wellow
- 0.3 miles
Whinwhistle Corner
BCT · West Wellow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 007A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,226 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
79 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 38 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.