Portsmouth property guide

An island city with some of the densest housing in Britain.

This guide brings together the latest property, schools and crime data for Portsmouth, Portsmouth. Figures cover the 12 months to the end of May 2026 and are sourced from HM Land Registry, Police.uk and the DfE schools register. Trains reach London Waterloo in about 1 hour 40 minutes.

Median sale price (12m)

£252,000

Sales registered (12m)

899

Open schools

74

About Portsmouth

Portsea Island packs terraced streets from Fratton to North End, with the premium concentrated in Southsea's Victorian avenues and seafront.

The naval base, the dockyard and the university anchor the economy, and water on three sides keeps supply tighter than in most cities.

House prices in Portsmouth

The median sale price in Portsmouth over the last 12 months was £252,000, across 899 recorded transactions.

Terraced homes were the most-traded type in Portsmouth, accounting for 549 of the period's sales at a median of £250,500.

Median price by property type, last 12 months

Type	Median price	Sales
Detached	£510,000	32
Semi-detached	£315,000	151
Terraced	£250,500	549
Flat	£157,000	152
Other	£321,700	15

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Schools in Portsmouth

Portsmouth has 74 open schools recorded in the DfE register, including 46 primary, 14 secondary and 5 with a sixth form or 16-plus provision.

Nearest secondary schools to Portsmouth centre

School	Postcode	Distance
UTC Portsmouth	PO2 9DU	1.3 km
Springfield School	PO6 1QY	2 km
Castle View Academy	PO6 4QP	2.7 km
Admiral Lord Nelson School	PO3 5XT	3.1 km
Purbrook Park School	PO7 5DS	3.2 km

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Crime in Portsmouth

In Portsmouth, the largest reported categories over the last 12 months were violence and sexual offences (37.3%), anti-social behaviour (11.1%) and public order (10.4%).

Largest reported categories, last 12 months

Category	Share
Violence and sexual offences	37.3%
Anti-social behaviour	11.1%
Public order	10.4%
Criminal damage and arson	8.0%
Other theft	7.1%

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Postcode districts in Portsmouth

Reported incident counts vary across postcode districts within the Portsmouth boundary, partly reflecting where Police.uk anonymises locations and partly reflecting genuine differences in foot traffic and population density.

Postcode district	Reports (12m)
PO1	17,626
PO2	17,626
PO3	17,626
PO6	17,626
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Living near Portsmouth

Nearby towns include Southsea.

Southsea

Frequently asked questions about Portsmouth

The median sale price in Portsmouth over the last 12 months was £252,000, based on HM Land Registry data.

There are 74 open schools listed in the DfE register within the Portsmouth area, covering primary, secondary and sixth-form provision.

According to Police.uk, the most-reported category in Portsmouth over the last 12 months was violence and sexual offences, out of around 17,626 recorded incidents.

Sale prices come from HM Land Registry, crime statistics from the Police.uk open-data feed, schools data from the Department for Education, flood data from the Environment Agency, and energy ratings from the EPC public register.

The figures refresh monthly as new data is published by each source.

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