Neighbourhoods in Portsmouth
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26 neighbourhoods · 125 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Somers Town | £1,056 | +2.7% | 85 | 11 |
| Southsea West | £1,154 | +2.7% | 75 | 27 |
| Portsmouth 028 | £1,182 | +2.7% | 83 | 4 |
| Fratton Kingston | £1,186 | +2.7% | 97 | 58 |
| North End West & Whale Island | £1,189 | +2.7% | 61 | 32 |
| Landport | £1,213 | +2.7% | 73 | 5 |
| Fratton North | £1,250 | +2.7% | 96 | 80 |
| Paulsgrove East | £1,304 | +2.7% | 79 | 50 |
| Southsea Fawcett Road | £1,318 | +2.7% | 82 | 41 |
| North End East | £1,326 | +2.7% | 95 | 69 |
| Wymering | £1,347 | +2.7% | 75 | 28 |
| Southsea Prince Albert Road | £1,369 | +2.7% | 96 | 87 |
| Hilsea | £1,382 | +2.7% | 77 | 30 |
| Old Portsmouth & Southsea Common | £1,384 | +2.7% | 40 | 18 |
| Alexandra Park | £1,393 | +2.7% | 97 | 82 |
| Milton | £1,396 | +2.7% | 86 | 64 |
| Southsea Haslemere Road | £1,398 | +2.7% | 97 | 84 |
| Anchorage Park & Copnor | £1,409 | +2.7% | 36 | 41 |
| Eastney | £1,412 | +2.7% | 79 | 75 |
| Portsmouth 027 | £1,415 | +2.7% | 85 | 14 |
| Paulsgrove West & Port Solent | £1,426 | +2.7% | 75 | 58 |
| Baffins | £1,478 | +2.7% | 76 | 64 |
| Southsea Waverley Road | £1,497 | +2.7% | 16 | 15 |
| Cosham South | £1,578 | +2.7% | 70 | 84 |
| Drayton & Farlington | £1,682 | +2.7% | 62 | 87 |
| Cosham North | £1,750 | +2.7% | 86 | 90 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Portsmouth
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Portsmouth. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Portsmouth median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Portsmouth.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Portsmouth
Crime in Portsmouth runs at in line with the national average. Bottom quartile (#286 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 97.0, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Portsmouth
100% of schools serving Portsmouth are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Portsmouth
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Portsmouth
Portsmouth has 0.50 jobs per resident locally. Above median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Portsmouth
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Portsmouth?
- The median monthly rent across Portsmouth is £1,357, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Portsmouth?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Portsmouth by estimated median rent is Somers Town at approximately £1,056/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Portsmouth?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Portsmouth is Alexandra Park at 97/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Portsmouth a safe area?
- Portsmouth has an average safety score of 50/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Portsmouth?
- The most common council tax band in Portsmouth is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £1,908. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Portsmouth.
- What is the average salary in Portsmouth?
- The median annual resident salary in Portsmouth is £30,962, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Portsmouth, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Portsmouth?
- The average property price in Portsmouth is approximately £248,387 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Portsmouth?
- Gross rental yield in Portsmouth is approximately 5.3% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Portsmouth?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 4.1 years in Portsmouth. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Portsmouth?
- 100% of premises in Portsmouth are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Portsmouth?
- 4.6% of 16-64 residents in Portsmouth are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Portsmouth?
- Portsmouth contains 26 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 125 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Portsmouth
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Portsmouth 020D
- Portsmouth 020B
- Portsmouth 021B
- Portsmouth 011F
- Portsmouth 018F
- Portsmouth 019B
- Portsmouth 019E
- Portsmouth 018C
- Portsmouth 025C
- Portsmouth 015E
- Portsmouth 015B
- Portsmouth 022C
- Portsmouth 012E
- Portsmouth 022A
- Portsmouth 027C
- Portsmouth 021C
- Portsmouth 019C
- Portsmouth 009E
- Portsmouth 012D
- Portsmouth 019A
- Portsmouth 020A
- Portsmouth 025D
- Portsmouth 018B
- Portsmouth 009D
- Portsmouth 010B
- Portsmouth 027D
- Portsmouth 012F
- Portsmouth 020E
- Portsmouth 023B
- Portsmouth 002A
- Portsmouth 025A
- Portsmouth 014B
- Portsmouth 028A
- Portsmouth 012A
- Portsmouth 021A
- Portsmouth 007E
- Portsmouth 022D
- Portsmouth 024A
- Portsmouth 017D
- Portsmouth 010D
- Portsmouth 021D
- Portsmouth 011E
- Portsmouth 020C
- Portsmouth 015F
- Portsmouth 015C
- Portsmouth 011C
- Portsmouth 006D
- Portsmouth 012C
- Portsmouth 009C
- Portsmouth 013D
- Portsmouth 019D
- Portsmouth 018E
- Portsmouth 014E
- Portsmouth 015D
- Portsmouth 017F
- Portsmouth 009B
- Portsmouth 018D
- Portsmouth 012B
- Portsmouth 015A
- Portsmouth 022B
- Portsmouth 011A
- Portsmouth 024C
- Portsmouth 006A
- Portsmouth 007C
- Portsmouth 026C
- Portsmouth 028C
- Portsmouth 014F
- Portsmouth 004C
- Portsmouth 025B
- Portsmouth 024E
- Portsmouth 017C
- Portsmouth 003D
- Portsmouth 010C
- Portsmouth 024B
- Portsmouth 023E
- Portsmouth 004D
- Portsmouth 024F
- Portsmouth 013A
- Portsmouth 007D
- Portsmouth 014D
Showing 80 of 125 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.