Property market
The five-year median is £131,500 from 3 recorded sales in SO51 8NB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Test Valley is £372,348 in June 2026, down 0.2% year on year.
SO51 8NB
Romsey Abbey · Test Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Romsey
- Ward
- Romsey Abbey
- Local authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North
- Postcode district
- SO51
- Postcode sector
- SO51 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO51 8NB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1986
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO51
- Postcode sector
- SO51 8
- Latitude
- 50.989089
- Longitude
- -1.500295
- British National Grid easting
- 435,169
- British National Grid northing
- 121,196
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Test Valley · E07000093
- Electoral ward
- Romsey Abbey · E05012100
- Parish or community
- E04013318
- Westminster constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North · E14001449
- Output area
- E00117623
- Lower layer super output area
- Test Valley 011B · E01023151
- Middle layer super output area
- Test Valley 011 · E02004824
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 11, Flat 2, Market Place, Romsey, SO51 8NB | 17 July 2025 | £131,500 |
| 3, Market Place, Romsey, SO51 8NB | 22 November 2022 | £4,833 |
| 11, Market Place, Romsey, SO51 8NB | 4 March 2022 | £525,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 194 m
Romsey Abbey Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 511 m
The Romsey School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Romsey Primary School & Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 723
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 275
- Shoplifting 132
- Anti social behaviour 62
- Public order 55
- Other theft 42
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- SO51 8 residents
- 4,868
2 female, 3 male
Age bands in SO51 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 35.9%
524 residents
345 residents
972 residents
1,169 residents
1,689 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SO51 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+
- 91.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Gigabit-capable
- 25%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 91.7%
- 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
3
within 5 km
ABBEYWELL SURGERY
THE ABBEY, ROMSEY, SO51 8EN
ODS code J82145
112 m
ALMA ROAD SURGERY
ALMA ROAD, ROMSEY, SO51 8ED
ODS code J82074
485 m
NORTH BADDESLEY SURGERY
NORTON WELCH CLOSE, FLEMING AVENUE, NORTH BADDESLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO52 9EP
ODS code J82121
4.7 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
- 0.1 miles
Council Offices
BCT · Romsey
- 0.1 miles
Council Offices
BCT · Romsey
- 0.1 miles
Bus Station
BCS · Romsey
- 0.1 miles
Bus Station
BCS · Romsey
- 0.1 miles
Bus Station
BCS · Romsey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Test Valley 011B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,853 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Romsey Abbey Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 194 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
723 published events cover 12 months, averaging 60.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 275 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.