Schools
46 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 6 secondary schools. Castle View Academy is the nearest published school at 410 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PO16 8LH
Portchester Castle · Fareham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Fareham
- Ward
- Portchester Castle
- Local authority
- Fareham
- Constituency
- Fareham and Waterlooville
- Postcode district
- PO16
- Postcode sector
- PO16 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO16 8LH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO16
- Postcode sector
- PO16 8
- Latitude
- 50.848772
- Longitude
- -1.117961
- British National Grid easting
- 462,190
- British National Grid northing
- 105,844
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Fareham · E07000087
- Electoral ward
- Portchester Castle · E05015672
- Parish or community
- E43000070
- Westminster constituency
- Fareham and Waterlooville · E14001233
- Output area
- E00115690
- Lower layer super output area
- Fareham 012D · E01022764
- Middle layer super output area
- Fareham 012 · E02004738
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore PO16
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 43, Portsdown Road, Portchester, Fareham, PO16 8LH | 14 June 2019 | £270,000 |
| 43, Portsdown Road, Portchester, Fareham, PO16 8LH | 1 December 2015 | £247,000 |
| 41, Portsdown Road, Portchester, Fareham, PO16 8LH | 29 November 2013 | £167,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 46
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 6
- 410 m
Castle View Academy
Academy converter
- 410 m
The Victory Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 745 m
Castle Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,336
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 676
- Shoplifting 147
- Anti social behaviour 112
- Public order 96
- Criminal damage and arson 86
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- PO16 8 residents
- 10,355
2 female, 2 male
Age bands in PO16 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.4%
1,428 residents
887 residents
2,106 residents
3,090 residents
2,839 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PO16 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
PORTCHESTER PRACTICE
PORTCHESTER HEALTH CENTRE, WEST STREET, PORTCHESTER, FAREHAM, PO16 9TU
ODS code J82012
678 m
WESTLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
20B WESTLANDS GROVE, PORTCHESTER, FAREHAM, PO16 9AD
ODS code J82161
1.1 km
CENTRE PRACTICE
FAREHAM HEALTH CENTRE, CIVIC WAY, FAREHAM, PO16 7ER
ODS code J82026
4.1 km
DERBY ROAD GROUP PRACTICE
DERBY ROAD SURGERY, 27-29 DERBY ROAD, PORTSMOUTH, PO2 8HP
ODS code J82149
4.5 km
BRIDGEMARY MEDICAL CENTRE
2-4 GREGSON AVENUE, BRIDGEMARY, GOSPORT, PO13 0HR
ODS code J82152
4.6 km
PORTSDOWN GROUP PRACTICE
KINGSTON CRESCENT SURGERY, 92 KINGSTON CRESCENT, PORTSMOUTH, PO2 8AL
ODS code J82155
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mountview Avenue
BCT · Portchester
- 0.1 miles
Mountview Avenue
BCT · Portchester
- 0.2 miles
Rowland Road
BCT · Paulsgrove
- 0.2 miles
Mother Kellys
BCT · Paulsgrove
- 0.2 miles
Mother Kellys
BCT · Paulsgrove
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Fareham 012D, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,050 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,336 published events cover 12 months, averaging 111.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 676 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.