Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. Fair Oak Infant School is the nearest published school at 891 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO5 7BY
Fair Oak & Horton Heath · Eastleigh · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO5 7BY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1983
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO5
- Postcode sector
- SO5 7
- Latitude
- 50.951754
- Longitude
- -1.296376
- British National Grid easting
- 449,521
- British National Grid northing
- 117,161
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
- E00115305
- Lower layer super output area
- Eastleigh 008F · E01022686
- 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
- 29
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 4
- 891 m
Fair Oak Infant School
Community school
- 893 m
Fair Oak Junior School
Community school
- 1.0 km
Wyvern College
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 312
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 126
- Anti social behaviour 41
- Public order 31
- Other theft 29
- Criminal damage and arson 16
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
STOKEWOOD SURGERY
FAIR OAK ROAD, FAIR OAK, EASTLEIGH, SO50 8AU
ODS code J82018
1.8 km
ST. ANDREW'S SURGERY
166 MARKET STREET, EASTLEIGH, SO50 5PT
ODS code J82071
4.2 km
EASTLEIGH MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEWTOWN ROAD, EASTLEIGH, SO50 9AG
ODS code J82020
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Dumpers Drove
BCT · Horton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Dumpers Drove
BCT · Horton Heath
- 0.2 miles
Horton Heath Crossroads
BCT · Horton Heath
- 0.2 miles
Horton Heath Crossroads
BCT · Horton Heath
- 0.3 miles
The Brigadier Gerard
BCT · Horton Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Eastleigh 008F, 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
29,121 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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
312 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 126 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.