Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Wellow Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO51 6RB
Blackwater · Test Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Romsey
- 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 6RB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1986
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO51
- Postcode sector
- SO51 6
- Latitude
- 50.973046
- Longitude
- -1.585096
- British National Grid easting
- 429,227
- British National Grid northing
- 119,375
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
- E00117693
- Lower layer super output area
- Test Valley 013C · E01023164
- 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
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Merrytree Close, West Wellow, Romsey, SO51 6RB | 9 December 2020 | £525,000 |
| 7, Merrytree Close, West Wellow, Romsey, SO51 6RB | 26 June 2017 | £520,000 |
| 8, Merrytree Close, West Wellow, Romsey, SO51 6RB | 7 April 2017 | £630,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.7 km
Wellow Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.3 km
Embley
Other independent school
- 3.6 km
St Edward's School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 113
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 53
- Other theft 13
- Criminal damage and arson 13
- Burglary 10
- Anti social behaviour 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- SO51 6 residents
- 4,716
12 female, 8 male
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
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SO51 6 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Wheatears Drive
BCT · West Wellow
- 0.1 miles
Wheatears Drive
BCT · West Wellow
- 0.2 miles
Gurnays Mead
BCT · West Wellow
- 0.2 miles
Gurnays Mead
BCT · West Wellow
- 0.3 miles
Slab Lane
BCT · West Wellow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Test Valley 013C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,398 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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.
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
- 1
- 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
113 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 53 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.