Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. Wyvern College is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO50 8GH
Fair Oak & Horton Heath · Eastleigh · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO50 8GH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO50
- Postcode sector
- SO50 8
- Latitude
- 50.972157
- Longitude
- -1.302178
- British National Grid easting
- 449,092
- British National Grid northing
- 119,426
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
- E00115296
- Lower layer super output area
- Eastleigh 008C · E01022683
- 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 SO50
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.3 km
Wyvern College
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
The King's School
Other independent school
- 1.4 km
Fair Oak Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 492
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 248
- Anti social behaviour 49
- Public order 40
- Other theft 37
- Criminal damage and arson 28
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO50 8 residents
- 6,545
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
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.
GP practices
4
within 5 km
STOKEWOOD SURGERY
FAIR OAK ROAD, FAIR OAK, EASTLEIGH, SO50 8AU
ODS code J82018
991 m
EASTLEIGH MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEWTOWN ROAD, EASTLEIGH, SO50 9AG
ODS code J82020
3.6 km
ST. ANDREW'S SURGERY
166 MARKET STREET, EASTLEIGH, SO50 5PT
ODS code J82071
3.6 km
BOYATT WOOD SURGERY
BOYATT SHOPPING CENTRE, SHAKESPEARE ROAD, EASTLEIGH, SO50 4QP
ODS code J82169
4.1 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Winchester Road
BCT · Fair Oak
- 0.0 miles
Winchester Road
BCT · Fair Oak
- 0.3 miles
Witt Road
BCT · Fair Oak
- 0.3 miles
Fox and Hounds
BCT · Crowdhill
- 0.3 miles
Victena Road
BCT · Fair Oak
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Eastleigh 008C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,401 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 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.
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
492 published events cover 12 months, averaging 41 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 248 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.