Southbourne

Southbourne is covered by postcode districts PO10 and PO18. It is in the Chichester council area, West Sussex.

Typical price £395,000 Homes sold in Southbourne, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 89 of 124 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at medium risk 1 of 124 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 4 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 3 2 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Southbourne, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Southbourne, by flood risk Of the 124 postcodes in Southbourne that ONS places, 1 are at medium risk at worst and 123 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Southbourne. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A259 PO10 8EA: not on the flood risk listPO10 8EF: not on the flood risk listPO10 8ET: not on the flood risk listPO10 8EW: not on the flood risk listPO10 8EZ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8FB: not on the flood risk listPO10 8FH: not on the flood risk listPO10 8FJ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8FL: not on the flood risk listPO10 8FN: not on the flood risk listPO10 8FP: not on the flood risk listPO10 8FQ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8FR: not on the flood risk listPO10 8FS: not on the flood risk listPO10 8FW: not on the flood risk listPO10 8FX: not on the flood risk listPO10 8FY: not on the flood risk listPO10 8FZ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8GA: not on the flood risk listPO10 8GB: not on the flood risk listPO10 8GD: not on the flood risk listPO10 8GE: not on the flood risk listPO10 8GF: not on the flood risk listPO10 8GG: not on the flood risk listPO10 8GH: not on the flood risk listPO10 8GJ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8GL: not on the flood risk listPO10 8GN: not on the flood risk listPO10 8GP: not on the flood risk listPO10 8GW: not on the flood risk listPO10 8GX: not on the flood risk listPO10 8GZ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8HH: not on the flood risk listPO10 8HJ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8HL: not on the flood risk listPO10 8HN: not on the flood risk listPO10 8HP: not on the flood risk listPO10 8HQ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8HR: not on the flood risk listPO10 8HT: not on the flood risk listPO10 8HU: not on the flood risk listPO10 8HW: not on the flood risk listPO10 8HX: not on the flood risk listPO10 8JA: not on the flood risk listPO10 8JD: not on the flood risk listPO10 8JE: not on the flood risk listPO10 8JG: not on the flood risk listPO10 8JH: not on the flood risk listPO10 8JJ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8JL: not on the flood risk listPO10 8JN: not on the flood risk listPO10 8JP: not on the flood risk listPO10 8JQ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8JS: not on the flood risk listPO10 8JT: not on the flood risk listPO10 8JX: not on the flood risk listPO10 8JY: not on the flood risk listPO10 8JZ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LA: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LB: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LD: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LE: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LF: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LG: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LH: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LJ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LL: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LN: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LP: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LQ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LR: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LS: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LT: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LU: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LW: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LX: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LY: not on the flood risk listPO10 8LZ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NA: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NB: not on the flood risk listPO10 8ND: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NE: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NF: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NG: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NH: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NJ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NL: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NN: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NP: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NQ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NR: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NS: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NT: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NU: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NX: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NY: not on the flood risk listPO10 8NZ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PA: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PB: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PD: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PE: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PF: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PG: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PH: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PJ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PL: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PN: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PP: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PQ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PR: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PU: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PW: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PX: not on the flood risk listPO10 8PY: not on the flood risk listPO10 8QE: not on the flood risk listPO10 8QF: not on the flood risk listPO10 8QJ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8XT: not on the flood risk listPO18 8GG: not on the flood risk listPO18 8HE: not on the flood risk listPO18 8RD: not on the flood risk listPO18 8RH: not on the flood risk listPO18 8RJ: not on the flood risk listPO10 8HS: medium flood risk at worst Southbourne Map of every postcode in Southbourne, by flood risk Of the 124 postcodes in Southbourne that ONS places, 1 are at medium risk at worst and 123 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Southbourne. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Southbourne
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 1
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 123

Of the 124 postcodes in Southbourne that ONS places, 1 are at medium risk at worst and 123 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. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 50.8488, longitude -0.9088. 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 medium risk at worst

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

PO10 8HS4 at medium risk

What is it like to live in Southbourne?

Homes sold for a typical £395,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 89 of the 124 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 4 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 124 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Southbourne, 100 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 Southbourne?

Homes in Southbourne sold for a typical £395,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 47 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £375,000 from 67 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£395,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£375,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £515,000 17 sales
  • Semi-detached £381,000 16 sales
  • Terraced £295,000 7 sales
  • Flat or maisonette £189,950 7 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole PO10 district, Southbourne's main postcode district: a typical £395,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Southbourne: 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 Southbourne?

11 of the 124 postcodes now in use in Southbourne came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 2 of the 67 homes sold in Southbourne were newly built (3%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PO10 district, 7%.

The newest postcodes

PO18 8HEsince September 2025PO10 8GXsince July 2025PO10 8QFsince March 2025PO10 8GWsince August 2024PO10 8GPsince January 2023PO10 8NDsince September 2022

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

PeriodIn SouthbourneAcross the PO10 district
The 12 months to September 2026 2 of 47 (4%) 6 of 254 (2%)
The 12 months to September 2025 2 of 67 (3%) 20 of 304 (7%)

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 Southbourne?

Ofcom reports on 124 of the 124 postcodes in Southbourne. At 89 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit89 of 124
Postcodes where every home can get superfast120 of 124

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 checker

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Southbourne at risk of flooding?

1 of the 124 postcodes in Southbourne has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 4 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 1 of 124 postcodes Medium: 4Low: 33Very low: 11

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 Southbourne?

The open schools at the postcodes in Southbourne. 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

Secondary

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Southbourne?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Southbourne is Southbourne Rail Station, 100 m away in a straight line.

  • Southbourne Rail Station Railway station 100 mWalk
  • Nutbourne Rail Station Railway station 1.8 kmCycle
  • Emsworth Rail Station Railway station 2.1 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 Southbourne?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Southbourne. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Southbourne safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 374 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Southbourne 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

  1. 18 September 2025
  2. 20 October 2025
  3. 21 November 2025
  4. 40 December 2025
  5. 28 January 2026
  6. 21 February 2026
  7. 35 March 2026
  8. 37 April 2026
  9. 49 May 2026
  10. 39 June 2026
  11. 34 July 2026
  12. 32 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences124 reports
Anti-social behaviour99 reports
Criminal damage and arson40 reports
Other theft32 reports
Public order28 reports
Vehicle crime15 reports
Shoplifting13 reports
Burglary8 reports

Also: possession of weapons 4, bicycle theft 3, other crime 3, drugs 2, robbery 2, theft from the person 1.

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 postcode

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Southbourne?

District, borough or city council
Chichester
County council
West Sussex
Parliamentary constituency
Chichester
Police force area
Sussex
Region
South East
Country
England
MP
Jess Brown-Fuller (Liberal Democrat)

All 124 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.

Moving to Southbourne

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.

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Southbourne postcodes

124 postcodes in use in Southbourne, by district:

PO10 postcode district,119 postcodesPO18 postcode district,5 postcodes

Those districts are all in the PO postcode area.

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Places near Southbourne

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Southbourne's £395,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Hambrook and Nutbourne1.8 km, £460,000Westbourne2.0 km, £432,500Emsworth2.2 km, £385,000Bosham4.3 km, £490,000Havant5.6 km, £275,000Rowlands Castle6.0 km, £545,000Fishbourne6.9 km, £406,500South Hayling8.3 km, £335,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Southbourne

What is the postcode for Southbourne?
Postcode districts PO10 and PO18, with 124 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Southbourne in?
Chichester, with West Sussex as its county council. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Southbourne?
Jess Brown-Fuller (Liberal Democrat), for Chichester. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Southbourne?
A typical £395,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 47 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Southbourne?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Southbourne Infant School and Southbourne Junior School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Bourne Community College. Source: Department for Education.
Does Southbourne have a railway station?
Yes: Southbourne station, 100 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Southbourne?
Ofcom reports on 124 of the 124 postcodes in Southbourne. At 89 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Southbourne at risk of flooding?
1 of the 124 postcodes in Southbourne has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 4 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 Southbourne?
11 of the 124 postcodes now in use in Southbourne came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 2 of the 67 homes sold in Southbourne were newly built (3%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PO10 district, 7%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

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. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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