SO24

SO24 is a postcode district in the United Kingdom, part of the Southampton postcode area (SO). It is used by Royal Mail for mail sorting and delivery and serves as a geographic reference within the national postal system. The district lies in Hampshire, on the north-western outskirts of the city of Southampton, and covers a mix of suburban housing and surrounding countryside. The boundaries are primarily defined for mail routing rather than by local government, which means the area overlies parts of the city's administrative footprint and adjacent rural parishes.

Historically, the Southampton postcode area was extended and reorganized as population and housing developed in the region; SO24 is one of the districts created or refined through these changes. Today, residents and businesses within SO24 use the same postal town designation as other Southampton districts, with street-level addressing completing the delivery address.

In practical terms, SO24 is used in addresses, property listings, and logistics planning. It also appears in statistical datasets and geocoding as a coarse geographic unit that helps identify location within Hampshire and the Southampton region. The district does not correspond to a single civil parish or unitary authority boundary, reflecting the flexible nature of UK postcode geography.