Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Wellow Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO51 6HF
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO51 6HF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO51
- Postcode sector
- SO51 6
- Latitude
- 50.985200
- Longitude
- -1.586796
- British National Grid easting
- 429,100
- British National Grid northing
- 120,726
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Test Valley · E07000093
- Electoral ward
- Blackwater · E05012093
- Parish or community
- E04012862
- Westminster constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North · E14001449
- Output area
- E00117692
- Lower layer super output area
- Test Valley 013B · E01023163
- 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
- 4
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.3 km
Wellow Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.6 km
St Edward's School
Other independent special school
- 3.1 km
Embley
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 66
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 29
- Criminal damage and arson 9
- Other theft 8
- Burglary 6
- Public order 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO51 6 residents
- 4,716
Age bands in SO51 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.7%
598 residents
399 residents
724 residents
1,378 residents
1,375 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
War Memorial
BCT · West Wellow
- 0.8 miles
War Memorial
BCT · West Wellow
- 0.9 miles
Wheatears Drive
BCT · West Wellow
- 0.9 miles
Wheatears Drive
BCT · West Wellow
- 1.0 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · Sherfield English
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Test Valley 013B, 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
28,223 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
66 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 29 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.