Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. Wyvern College is the nearest published school at 771 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO5 7BU
Fair Oak & Horton Heath · Eastleigh · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO5 7BU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO5
- Postcode sector
- SO5 7
- Latitude
- 50.966042
- Longitude
- -1.290136
- British National Grid easting
- 449,944
- British National Grid northing
- 118,754
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Eastleigh · E07000086
- Electoral ward
- Fair Oak & Horton Heath · E05011194
- Parish or community
- E04012906
- Westminster constituency
- Eastleigh · E14001220
- Output area
- E00115310
- Lower layer super output area
- Eastleigh 008B · E01022682
- Middle layer super output area
- Eastleigh 008 · E02004719
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
- 22
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 771 m
Wyvern College
Academy converter
- 813 m
Fair Oak Infant School
Community school
- 900 m
Fair Oak Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 456
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 211
- Anti social behaviour 55
- Public order 43
- Other theft 39
- Criminal damage and arson 25
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
STOKEWOOD SURGERY
FAIR OAK ROAD, FAIR OAK, EASTLEIGH, SO50 8AU
ODS code J82018
1.4 km
ST. ANDREW'S SURGERY
166 MARKET STREET, EASTLEIGH, SO50 5PT
ODS code J82071
4.4 km
EASTLEIGH MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEWTOWN ROAD, EASTLEIGH, SO50 9AG
ODS code J82020
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hall Lands Lane
BCT · Fair Oak
- 0.1 miles
Hall Lands Lane
BCT · Fair Oak
- 0.1 miles
Bradshaw Close
BCT · Fair Oak
- 0.1 miles
Bradshaw Close
BCT · Fair Oak
- 0.3 miles
Glebe Court
BCT · Fair Oak
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Eastleigh 008B, 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
29,485 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
456 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 211 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.