Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Hale Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SP6 2NS
Downlands & Forest North · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Fordingbridge
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West
- Postcode district
- SP6
- Postcode sector
- SP6 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SP6 2NS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SP
- Postcode district
- SP6
- Postcode sector
- SP6 2
- Latitude
- 50.966012
- Longitude
- -1.706574
- British National Grid easting
- 420,701
- British National Grid northing
- 118,552
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 SP6
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Mays Firs, Hale, Fordingbridge, SP6 2NS | 10 September 2001 | £350,000 |
| 3, Mays Firs, Hale, Fordingbridge, SP6 2NS | 25 November 1996 | £107,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.4 km
Hale Primary School
Community school
- 2.7 km
Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 4.4 km
The Trafalgar School at Downton
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 17
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 7
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Burglary 2
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 26
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- SP6 2 residents
- 2,887
13 female, 13 male
Age bands in SP6 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 12.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 34.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 34.9%
286 residents
223 residents
377 residents
1,022 residents
1,024 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SP6 2 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
DOWNTON SURGERY
MOOT LANE, DOWNTON, SALISBURY, SP5 3JP
ODS code J83043
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mays Firs
BCT · North Charford
- 0.1 miles
Mays Firs
BCT · North Charford
- 0.2 miles
Mount Pleasant Farm
BCT · North Charford
- 0.2 miles
Mount Pleasant Farm
BCT · North Charford
- 0.7 miles
Bohemia Lane
BCT · Bohemia
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.
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
Recorded crime
17 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 7 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.