Southampton
Southampton is covered by postcode districts SO14, SO15, SO16, SO17, SO18, SO19 and 2 more. It is mostly in the Southampton council area: 5,805 of its 5,855 postcodes. The others are in Eastleigh and Test Valley. 50 of its 5,855 postcodes are in Hampshire. ONS lists no county for the other 5,805.
Every postcode in Southampton, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 169
- At medium risk at worst: 60
- At low risk at worst: 91
- At very low risk only: 14
- Not on the at-risk list: 5,521
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 5,855 postcodes in Southampton that ONS places, 169 have a home or business at high risk, 60 are at medium risk at worst, 91 are at low risk at worst, 14 are at very low risk only and 5,521 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 50.9184, longitude -1.3963. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
The postcodes at high risk
169 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 64 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SO14 0FT, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 34 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SO14 5BL, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 17 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SO15 0LF, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 7 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SO16 6QP, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 7 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SO17 2LJ, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 6 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SO15 8RH, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Southampton?
Homes sold for a typical £260,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 5,189 of the 5,649 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 2,800 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 334 of its 5,855 postcodes. It has 54 primary schools, 14 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is St Denys, 750 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Southampton?
Homes in Southampton sold for a typical £260,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 2,230 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £265,000 from 2,721 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £380,000 308 sales
- Semi-detached £300,000 588 sales
- Terraced £260,000 616 sales
- Flat or maisonette £165,000 718 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole SO16 district, Southampton's main postcode district: a typical £277,250.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Southampton: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Southampton?
114 of the 5,855 postcodes now in use in Southampton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 34 of the 2,721 homes sold in Southampton were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SO16 district, 2%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Southampton | Across the SO16 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 5 of 2,230 (Under 1%) | 1 of 582 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 34 of 2,721 (1%) | 12 of 686 (2%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Southampton?
Ofcom reports on 5,649 of the 5,855 postcodes in Southampton. At 5,189 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Southampton at risk of flooding?
334 of the 5,855 postcodes in Southampton have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 2,800 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Southampton?
The open schools at the postcodes in Southampton (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- Bevois Town Primary School200 m 410 pupils, 390 places
- Mount Pleasant Juniors400 m 334 pupils, 360 places
- Mount Pleasant Infants650 m 315 pupils, 350 places
- The Gregg Preparatory School800 m 66 pupils, 110 places
- Banister Primary School1.0 km 417 pupils, 420 places
- St Denys Primary School1.0 km 207 pupils, 210 places
- Springhill Catholic Primary School1.1 km 652 pupils, 630 places
- St Mary's Church of England Primary School & Nursery1.4 km 624 pupils, 660 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Southampton?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Southampton is St Denys Rail Station, 750 m away in a straight line.
- St Denys Rail Station Railway station 750 mWalk
- Bitterne Rail Station Railway station 1.4 kmCycle
- Southampton Central Rail Station Railway station 1.7 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Southampton?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Southampton, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Alma Road Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 023 8067 2666 450 mWalk
- Homeless Healthcare Team Phone 0300 123 3991 500 mWalk
- Walnut Tree Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 023 8033 3326 800 mWalk
- Hill Lane Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 023 8022 3086 1.4 kmCycle
- Southampton Sea City Partnership Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 023 8033 3778 1.4 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Southampton safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 9,457 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Southampton over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 712 September 2025
- 759 October 2025
- 723 November 2025
- 649 December 2025
- 725 January 2026
- 715 February 2026
- 817 March 2026
- 755 April 2026
- 919 May 2026
- 858 June 2026
- 892 July 2026
- 933 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 346, robbery 188, bicycle theft 181, possession of weapons 152, other crime 126, theft from the person 96.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Southampton?
- Councils
- Southampton (5,805), Eastleigh (47) and Test Valley (3)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Southampton Test (2,598), Southampton Itchen (2,593), Romsey and Southampton North (617) and 2 others
- Police force area
- Hampshire
- Region
- South East
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Moving to Southampton
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Southampton is in Southampton; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Southampton about council tax Council tax, on southampton.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Southampton
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Southampton postcodes
5,855 postcodes in use in Southampton, by district:
Those districts are all in the SO postcode area.
Check a Southampton postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Southampton
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Southampton's £260,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Southampton
- What is the postcode for Southampton?
- Postcode districts SO14, SO15, SO16, SO17, SO18, SO19 and 2 more, with 5,855 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Southampton?
- A typical £260,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 2,230 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Southampton?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Bevois Town Primary School, Mount Pleasant Juniors and Mount Pleasant Infants; secondary schools at its postcodes include St Anne's Catholic School, King Edward VI School and St Mark's Church of England School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Southampton have a railway station?
- Yes: St Denys station, 750 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Southampton?
- Ofcom reports on 5,649 of the 5,855 postcodes in Southampton. At 5,189 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
- Is Southampton at risk of flooding?
- 334 of the 5,855 postcodes in Southampton have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 2,800 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Southampton?
- 114 of the 5,855 postcodes now in use in Southampton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 34 of the 2,721 homes sold in Southampton were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SO16 district, 2%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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