Southampton property guide

The South Coast's biggest port city market.

This guide brings together the latest property, schools and crime data for Southampton, Southampton. Figures cover the 12 months to the end of June 2026 and are sourced from HM Land Registry, Police.uk and the DfE schools register. Trains reach London Waterloo in about 1 hour 20 minutes.

Median sale price (12m)

£285,000

Sales registered (12m)

3,435

Open schools

104

About Southampton

Southampton mixes Victorian terraces in Shirley and Portswood, garden suburbs at Highfield and Bassett, and a large student rental market around its two universities.

The port, the hospitals and the universities anchor employment, with the New Forest and the Solent shaping the premium fringe.

House prices in Southampton

The median sale price in Southampton over the last 12 months was £285,000, across 3,435 recorded transactions. That is 5.0% lower than the previous 12 months.

Flat homes were the most-traded type in Southampton, accounting for 963 of the period's sales at a median of £163,000.

Median price by property type, last 12 months

Type	Median price	Sales
Detached	£470,000	777
Semi-detached	£325,000	783
Terraced	£270,000	806
Flat	£163,000	963
Other	£340,004	106

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Schools in Southampton

Southampton has 104 open schools recorded in the DfE register, including 69 primary, 13 secondary and 8 with a sixth form or 16-plus provision.

Nearest secondary schools to Southampton centre

School	Postcode	Distance
St Anne's Catholic School	SO15 2WZ	1.1 km
Upper Shirley High School	SO15 7QU	1.3 km
Cantell School	SO16 3GJ	1.9 km
Regents Park Community College	SO16 4GW	2.5 km
Saint George Catholic Voluntary Aided College Southampton	SO16 3DQ	2.9 km

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Crime in Southampton

In Southampton, the largest reported categories over the last 12 months were violence and sexual offences (35.8%), anti-social behaviour (10.8%) and public order (9.4%).

Largest reported categories, last 12 months

Category	Share
Violence and sexual offences	35.8%
Anti-social behaviour	10.8%
Public order	9.4%
Criminal damage and arson	8.2%
Other theft	7.2%

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Postcode districts in Southampton

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

Postcode district	Reports (12m)
SO14	26,025
SO15	26,025
SO16	26,025
SO17	26,025
SO18	26,025

Frequently asked questions about Southampton

The median sale price in Southampton over the last 12 months was £285,000, based on HM Land Registry data.

There are 104 open schools listed in the DfE register within the Southampton area, covering primary, secondary and sixth-form provision.

According to Police.uk, the most-reported category in Southampton over the last 12 months was violence and sexual offences, out of around 26,025 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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Southampton sold prices

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Schools in Southampton

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