Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Mountbatten School is the nearest published school at 287 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO5 8SB
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 8SB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO5
- Postcode sector
- SO5 8
- Latitude
- 50.985401
- Longitude
- -1.471400
- British National Grid easting
- 437,200
- British National Grid northing
- 120,800
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
- E00117913
- Lower layer super output area
- Test Valley 010D · E01023207
- Middle layer super output area
- Test Valley 010 · E02004823
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
- 18
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 287 m
The Mountbatten School
Academy converter
- 337 m
Halterworth Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
King Edward VI Preparatory School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 380
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 178
- Public order 33
- Anti social behaviour 30
- Other theft 26
- Burglary 24
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
ALMA ROAD SURGERY
ALMA ROAD, ROMSEY, SO51 8ED
ODS code J82074
1.7 km
ABBEYWELL SURGERY
THE ABBEY, ROMSEY, SO51 8EN
ODS code J82145
2.2 km
NORTH BADDESLEY SURGERY
NORTON WELCH CLOSE, FLEMING AVENUE, NORTH BADDESLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO52 9EP
ODS code J82121
2.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Halterworth Lane
BCT · Whitenap
- 0.1 miles
Halterworth Lane
BCT · Whitenap
- 0.2 miles
The Mountbatten School
BCT · Whitenap
- 0.2 miles
Chambers Avenue
BCT · Halterworth
- 0.2 miles
Montfort Road
BCT · Whitenap
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Test Valley 010D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,381 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
380 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 178 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.