Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Wellow Primary School is the nearest published school at 587 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO5 0BQ
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 0BQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO5
- Postcode sector
- SO5 0
- Latitude
- 50.968703
- Longitude
- -1.565581
- British National Grid easting
- 430,600
- British National Grid northing
- 118,900
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
- E00117685
- Lower layer super output area
- Test Valley 013B · E01023163
- 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
- 4
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 587 m
Wellow Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.5 km
Embley
Other independent school
- 4.1 km
Copythorne CofE Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 72
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 33
- Criminal damage and arson 12
- Other theft 8
- Burglary 5
- Anti social behaviour 5
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Blackhill Road
BCT · Blackhill
- 0.4 miles
Blackhill Road
BCT · Blackhill
- 0.4 miles
Carlo's Tea Rooms
BCT · East Wellow
- 0.4 miles
Carlo's Tea Rooms
BCT · East Wellow
- 0.4 miles
Whinwhistle Corner
BCT · West Wellow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Test Valley 013B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,223 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
72 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 33 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.