Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Wellow Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO5 0BU
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 0BU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO5
- Postcode sector
- SO5 0
- Latitude
- 50.969685
- Longitude
- -1.588358
- British National Grid easting
- 429,000
- British National Grid northing
- 119,000
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
- E00117688
- Lower layer super output area
- Test Valley 013C · E01023164
- 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
- 5
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.0 km
Wellow Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.7 km
Embley
Other independent school
- 3.8 km
St Edward's School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 100
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 47
- Other theft 12
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Burglary 8
- Anti social behaviour 6
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Slab Lane
BCT · West Wellow
- 0.1 miles
Slab Lane
BCT · West Wellow
- 0.1 miles
Gurnays Mead
BCT · West Wellow
- 0.1 miles
Gurnays Mead
BCT · West Wellow
- 0.2 miles
Canada Corner
BCT · West Wellow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Test Valley 013C, 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
23,398 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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
100 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 47 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.