Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Mountbatten School is the nearest published school at 729 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO5 9DP
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO5 9DP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO5
- Postcode sector
- SO5 9
- Latitude
- 50.983543
- Longitude
- -1.458600
- British National Grid easting
- 438,100
- British National Grid northing
- 120,600
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
- E00117882
- Lower layer super output area
- Test Valley 012F · E01023200
- Middle layer super output area
- Test Valley 012 · E02004825
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
- 20
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 2
- 729 m
The Mountbatten School
Academy converter
- 936 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
- 298
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 125
- Other theft 28
- Public order 25
- Anti social behaviour 24
- Criminal damage and arson 22
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
NORTH BADDESLEY SURGERY
NORTON WELCH CLOSE, FLEMING AVENUE, NORTH BADDESLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO52 9EP
ODS code J82121
1.8 km
ALMA ROAD SURGERY
ALMA ROAD, ROMSEY, SO51 8ED
ODS code J82074
2.6 km
ABBEYWELL SURGERY
THE ABBEY, ROMSEY, SO51 8EN
ODS code J82145
3.1 km
LORDSHILL HEALTH CENTRE
LORDSHILL DISTRICT CENTRE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 8HY
ODS code J82002
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Scrag Hill
BCT · North Baddesley
- 0.2 miles
Scrag Hill
BCT · North Baddesley
- 0.3 miles
St Andrews Close
BCT · North Baddesley
- 0.3 miles
Montfort Road
BCT · Whitenap
- 0.3 miles
St Andrews Close
BCT · North Baddesley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Test Valley 012F, 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
32,732 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
298 published events cover 12 months, averaging 24.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 125 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.