Property market
The five-year median is £407,125 from 8 recorded sales in PO16 8QS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Fareham is £328,364 in June 2026, up 0.8% year on year.
PO16 8QS
Wallington & Downend · Fareham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Fareham
- Ward
- Wallington & Downend
- Local authority
- Fareham
- Constituency
- Fareham and Waterlooville
- Postcode district
- PO16
- Postcode sector
- PO16 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PO16 8QS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PO
- Postcode district
- PO16
- Postcode sector
- PO16 8
- Latitude
- 50.849135
- Longitude
- -1.140114
- British National Grid easting
- 460,630
- British National Grid northing
- 105,866
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Fareham · E07000087
- Electoral ward
- Wallington & Downend · E05015679
- Parish or community
- E43000070
- Westminster constituency
- Fareham and Waterlooville · E14001233
- Output area
- E00115713
- Lower layer super output area
- Fareham 010E · E01022770
- Middle layer super output area
- Fareham 010 · E02004736
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
47 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Rockingham Way, Portchester, Fareham, PO16 8QS | 24 October 2025 | £364,250 |
| 27, Rockingham Way, Portchester, Fareham, PO16 8QS | 22 July 2024 | £495,000 |
| 37, Rockingham Way, Portchester, Fareham, PO16 8QS | 13 December 2023 | £650,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 43
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 6
- 309 m
Wicor Primary School
Community school
- 439 m
Red Barn Community Primary School
Community school
- 712 m
Northern Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 781
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 372
- Anti social behaviour 84
- Shoplifting 77
- Criminal damage and arson 63
- Public order 46
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 110
- Postcode households
- 44
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- PO16 8 residents
- 10,355
58 female, 52 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 1.1% 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+
- 95.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 95.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 95.5%
- 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
WESTLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
20B WESTLANDS GROVE, PORTCHESTER, FAREHAM, PO16 9AD
ODS code J82161
758 m
PORTCHESTER PRACTICE
PORTCHESTER HEALTH CENTRE, WEST STREET, PORTCHESTER, FAREHAM, PO16 9TU
ODS code J82012
979 m
CENTRE PRACTICE
FAREHAM HEALTH CENTRE, CIVIC WAY, FAREHAM, PO16 7ER
ODS code J82026
2.6 km
BRIDGEMARY MEDICAL CENTRE
2-4 GREGSON AVENUE, BRIDGEMARY, GOSPORT, PO13 0HR
ODS code J82152
3.4 km
ROWNER HEALTH CENTRE
143 ROWNER LANE, ROWNER, GOSPORT, PO13 9SP
ODS code J82669
4.7 km
GUDGEHEATH LANE SURGERY
187 GUDGE HEATH LANE, FAREHAM, PO15 6QA
ODS code J82033
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Seagull
BCT · Portchester
- 0.1 miles
The Seagull
BCT · Portchester
- 0.1 miles
The Crematorium
BCT · Portchester
- 0.2 miles
The Crematorium
BCT · Portchester
- 0.2 miles
Beaulieu Avenue
BCT · Portchester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Fareham 010E, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,594 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
Schools
43 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 6 secondary schools. Wicor Primary School is the nearest published school at 309 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
781 published events cover 12 months, averaging 65.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 372 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.