Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 4 secondary schools. The King's School is the nearest published school at 793 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO50 8EP
Fair Oak & Horton Heath · Eastleigh · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO50 8EP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO50
- Postcode sector
- SO50 8
- Latitude
- 50.966645
- Longitude
- -1.306704
- British National Grid easting
- 448,780
- British National Grid northing
- 118,810
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
- E00115108
- Lower layer super output area
- Eastleigh 005C · E01022646
- Middle layer super output area
- Eastleigh 005 · E02004716
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
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Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Alton Close, Fair Oak, Eastleigh, SO50 8EP | 29 August 2017 | £280,000 |
| 10, Alton Close, Fair Oak, Eastleigh, SO50 8EP | 1 November 2002 | £147,000 |
| 5, Alton Close, Fair Oak, Eastleigh, SO50 8EP | 11 June 2002 | £128,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 4
- 793 m
The King's School
Other independent school
- 895 m
Wyvern College
Academy converter
- 980 m
Fair Oak Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 557
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 274
- Anti social behaviour 63
- Public order 50
- Other theft 39
- Criminal damage and arson 32
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 24
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- SO50 8 residents
- 6,545
10 female, 14 male
Age bands in SO50 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28%
- Age 65 and over
- 23%
1,002 residents
574 residents
1,529 residents
1,776 residents
1,461 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SO50 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
4
within 5 km
STOKEWOOD SURGERY
FAIR OAK ROAD, FAIR OAK, EASTLEIGH, SO50 8AU
ODS code J82018
320 m
ST. ANDREW'S SURGERY
166 MARKET STREET, EASTLEIGH, SO50 5PT
ODS code J82071
3.2 km
EASTLEIGH MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEWTOWN ROAD, EASTLEIGH, SO50 9AG
ODS code J82020
3.3 km
BOYATT WOOD SURGERY
BOYATT SHOPPING CENTRE, SHAKESPEARE ROAD, EASTLEIGH, SO50 4QP
ODS code J82169
3.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
New Road
BCT · Fair Oak
- 0.1 miles
New Road
BCT · Fair Oak
- 0.2 miles
New Clock Inn
BCT · Fair Oak
- 0.2 miles
Victena Road
BCT · Fair Oak
- 0.2 miles
Victena Road
BCT · Fair Oak
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Eastleigh 005C, 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
27,171 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
557 published events cover 12 months, averaging 46.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 274 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.