Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Romsey School is the nearest published school at 578 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO5 8DZ
Romsey Tadburn · Test Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Romsey Tadburn
- Local authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North
- Postcode district
- SO5
- Postcode sector
- SO5 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO5 8DZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO5
- Postcode sector
- SO5 8
- Latitude
- 50.990897
- Longitude
- -1.494135
- British National Grid easting
- 435,600
- British National Grid northing
- 121,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Test Valley · E07000093
- Electoral ward
- Romsey Tadburn · E05012102
- Parish or community
- E04013318
- Westminster constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North · E14001449
- Output area
- E00117617
- Lower layer super output area
- Test Valley 011B · E01023151
- Middle layer super output area
- Test Valley 011 · E02004824
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
- 13
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 578 m
The Romsey School
Academy converter
- 589 m
Romsey Abbey Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 667 m
Romsey Primary School & Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 828
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 332
- Shoplifting 132
- Anti social behaviour 67
- Public order 64
- Other theft 50
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
ALMA ROAD SURGERY
ALMA ROAD, ROMSEY, SO51 8ED
ODS code J82074
41 m
ABBEYWELL SURGERY
THE ABBEY, ROMSEY, SO51 8EN
ODS code J82145
580 m
NORTH BADDESLEY SURGERY
NORTON WELCH CLOSE, FLEMING AVENUE, NORTH BADDESLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO52 9EP
ODS code J82121
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mountbatten Avenue
BCT · Romsey
- 0.1 miles
Mountbatten Avenue
BCT · Romsey
- 0.1 miles
Romsey Rail Station
RLY · Romsey
- 0.1 miles
Romsey Rail Station
RSE · Romsey
- 0.1 miles
Alma Road
BCT · Romsey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Test Valley 011B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,853 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
828 published events cover 12 months, averaging 69 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 332 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.