Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Hale Primary School is the nearest published school at 725 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SP5 2LP
Downlands & Forest North · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West
- Postcode district
- SP5
- Postcode sector
- SP5 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SP5 2LP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SP
- Postcode district
- SP5
- Postcode sector
- SP5 2
- Latitude
- 50.976125
- Longitude
- -1.719842
- British National Grid easting
- 419,765
- British National Grid northing
- 119,673
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Downlands & Forest North · E05014777
- Parish or community
- E04004570
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest West · E14001374
- Output area
- E00116926
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 001B · E01023012
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 001 · E02004779
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 SP5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 725 m
Hale Primary School
Community school
- 1.4 km
Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.0 km
The Trafalgar School at Downton
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 57
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 24
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Burglary 5
- Other theft 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SP5 2 residents
- 6,047
Age bands in SP5 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.4%
880 residents
568 residents
942 residents
1,984 residents
1,818 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
1
within 5 km
DOWNTON SURGERY
MOOT LANE, DOWNTON, SALISBURY, SP5 3JP
ODS code J83043
2.3 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
Woodfalls Cross
BCT · North Charford
- 0.0 miles
Woodfalls Cross
BCT · North Charford
- 0.2 miles
Pineview Close
BCT · Woodfalls
- 0.2 miles
Pineview Close
BCT · Woodfalls
- 0.2 miles
Brook Heath
BCT · Hatchet Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 001B, 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
24,166 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
57 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 24 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.