Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Hale Primary School is the nearest published school at 421 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SP6 2NX
Downlands & Forest North · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 2NX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 2011
- Terminated
- 1 September 2011
- Postcode area
- SP
- Postcode district
- SP6
- Postcode sector
- SP6 2
- Latitude
- 50.972421
- Longitude
- -1.720192
- British National Grid easting
- 419,742
- British National Grid northing
- 119,261
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 421 m
Hale Primary School
Community school
- 1.8 km
Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.2 km
The Trafalgar School at Downton
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 34
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 10
- Criminal damage and arson 8
- Anti social behaviour 7
- Burglary 5
- Other theft 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SP6 2 residents
- 2,887
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
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 straight-line
DOWNTON SURGERY
MOOT LANE, DOWNTON, SALISBURY, SP5 3JP
ODS code J83043
2.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Brook Heath
BCT · Hatchet Green
- 0.1 miles
Brook Heath
BCT · Hatchet Green
- 0.2 miles
Woodfalls Cross
BCT · North Charford
- 0.2 miles
Woodfalls Cross
BCT · North Charford
- 0.3 miles
Hale Village Green
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
34 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.