Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 2 secondary schools. Embley is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO5 0BB
Blackwater · Test Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Blackwater
- Local authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North
- Postcode district
- SO5
- Postcode sector
- SO5 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO5 0BB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO5
- Postcode sector
- SO5 0
- Latitude
- 50.978462
- Longitude
- -1.531305
- British National Grid easting
- 433,000
- British National Grid northing
- 120,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Test Valley · E07000093
- Electoral ward
- Blackwater · E05012093
- Parish or community
- E04012862
- Westminster constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North · E14001449
- Output area
- E00117691
- Lower layer super output area
- Test Valley 013A · E01023162
- Middle layer super output area
- Test Valley 013 · E02004826
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 SO5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.1 km
Embley
Other independent school
- 2.2 km
Wellow Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.4 km
Romsey Abbey Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 2
- Other theft 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Other crime 1
- Vehicle crime 1
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
ABBEYWELL SURGERY
THE ABBEY, ROMSEY, SO51 8EN
ODS code J82145
2.4 km
ALMA ROAD SURGERY
ALMA ROAD, ROMSEY, SO51 8ED
ODS code J82074
3.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Embley Park Lodge
BCT · Shootash
- 0.8 miles
Embley Park Lodge
BCT · Shootash
- 1.3 miles
Carlo's Tea Rooms
BCT · East Wellow
- 1.3 miles
Carlo's Tea Rooms
BCT · East Wellow
- 1.5 miles
Shootash Crossroads
BCT · Shootash
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Test Valley 013A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,448 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
9 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.