Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. St Edward's School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO5 0EF
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 0EF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO5
- Postcode sector
- SO5 0
- Latitude
- 50.979631
- Longitude
- -1.603939
- British National Grid easting
- 427,900
- British National Grid northing
- 120,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Test Valley · E07000093
- Electoral ward
- Blackwater · E05012093
- Parish or community
- E04012850
- Westminster constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North · E14001449
- Output area
- E00117682
- 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
- 2.3 km
St Edward's School
Other independent special school
- 3.1 km
Wellow Primary School
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- 3.7 km
The New Forest Church of England Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 85
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 45
- Other theft 8
- Criminal damage and arson 8
- Burglary 6
- Public order 6
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
WHITEPARISH SURGERY
COMMON ROAD, WHITEPARISH, SALISBURY, SP5 2SU
ODS code J83004
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Plaitford
- 0.5 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Plaitford
- 0.5 miles
Service Station
BCT · Plaitford
- 0.5 miles
Service Station
BCT · Plaitford
- 0.6 miles
Maurys Lane
BCT · Plaitford
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
85 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 45 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.