Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Romsey School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO51 0ZT
Blackwater · Test Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Blackwater
- Local authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North
- Postcode district
- SO51
- Postcode sector
- SO51 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO51 0ZT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1986
- Terminated
- 1 December 1986
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO51
- Postcode sector
- SO51 0
- Latitude
- 51.001760
- Longitude
- -1.511118
- British National Grid easting
- 434,400
- British National Grid northing
- 122,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Test Valley · E07000093
- Electoral ward
- Blackwater · E05012093
- Parish or community
- E04013318
- Westminster constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North · E14001449
- Output area
- E00179078
- Lower layer super output area
- Test Valley 013G · E01035452
- Middle layer super output area
- Test Valley 013 · E02004826
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 SO51
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.1 km
The Romsey School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Romsey Abbey Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.0 km
Romsey Primary School & Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 197
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 73
- Shoplifting 30
- Anti social behaviour 16
- Other theft 15
- Vehicle crime 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO51 0 residents
- 7,237
Age bands in SO51 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.4%
1,316 residents
625 residents
1,841 residents
1,968 residents
1,382 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
ABBEYWELL SURGERY
THE ABBEY, ROMSEY, SO51 8EN
ODS code J82145
1.6 km
ALMA ROAD SURGERY
ALMA ROAD, ROMSEY, SO51 8ED
ODS code J82074
1.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Mortimer Drive
BCT · Awbridge
- 0.6 miles
Dukes Head
BCT · Belbins
- 0.6 miles
Mortimer Drive
BCT · Awbridge
- 0.6 miles
Dukes Head
BCT · Belbins
- 0.6 miles
Fishlake Meadows
BCT · Romsey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Test Valley 013G, 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
26,063 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
197 published events cover 12 months, averaging 16.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 73 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.