Property market
The five-year median is £492,500 from 2 recorded sales in SO16 3AY. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Southampton is £235,362 in June 2026, up 0.1% year on year.
SO16 3AY
Swaythling · Southampton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Southampton
- Ward
- Swaythling
- Local authority
- Southampton
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North
- Postcode district
- SO16
- Postcode sector
- SO16 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO16 3AY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO16
- Postcode sector
- SO16 3
- Latitude
- 50.938312
- Longitude
- -1.391281
- British National Grid easting
- 442,867
- British National Grid northing
- 115,607
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Southampton · E06000045
- Electoral ward
- Swaythling · E05015504
- Parish or community
- E43000036
- Westminster constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North · E14001449
- Output area
- E00087213
- Lower layer super output area
- Southampton 005G · E01035442
- Middle layer super output area
- Southampton 005 · E02003553
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 SO16
Property
31 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 228, Burgess Road, Southampton, SO16 3AY | 31 January 2023 | £595,000 |
| 212a, Burgess Road, Southampton, SO16 3AY | 14 January 2022 | £390,000 |
| 200b, Burgess Road, Southampton, SO16 3AY | 2 October 2019 | £19,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 89
- Primary
- 54
- Secondary
- 11
- 123 m
Bassett Green Primary School
Foundation school
- 206 m
Swaythling Primary School
Foundation school
- 410 m
University of Southampton
Higher education institutions
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,974
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,204
- Shoplifting 374
- Public order 225
- Anti social behaviour 215
- Criminal damage and arson 190
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 45
- Postcode households
- 20
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- SO16 3 residents
- 10,903
17 female, 28 male
Age bands in SO16 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 25.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.3%
1,624 residents
2,695 residents
2,636 residents
2,087 residents
1,384 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SO16 3 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+
- 97%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 97%
- Gigabit-capable
- 97%
- 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
24
within 5 km
BURGESS ROAD SURGERY
357A BURGESS ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 3BD
ODS code J82001
382 m
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE SOUTHAMPTON
BUILDING 48, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO17 1BJ
ODS code J82080
563 m
STONEHAM LANE SURGERY
CITY GATEWAY, PARKVILLE ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 2JA
ODS code J82087
908 m
ALMA ROAD SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 68 ALMA ROAD, PORTSWOOD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 6UX
ODS code J82122
1.9 km
ALDERMOOR SURGERY
ALDERMOOR CLOSE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 5ST
ODS code J82092
2.5 km
HOMELESS HEALTHCARE TEAM
30 CRANBURY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 0LT
ODS code J82217
2.7 km
WALNUT TREE SURGERY
14 CARLTON ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 2HQ
ODS code J82605
2.8 km
RAYMOND ROAD SURGERY
34 RAYMOND ROAD, UPPER SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5AL
ODS code J82126
2.9 km
HILL LANE SURGERY
162 HILL LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5DD
ODS code J82207
3.0 km
WEST END ROAD SURGERY
62 WEST END ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO18 6TG
ODS code J82040
3.3 km
CHEVIOT ROAD SURGERY
1 SHIRLEY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5RP
ODS code J82062
3.4 km
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
3.4 km
ATHERLEY HOUSE SURGERY
143-145 SHIRLEY ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3FH
ODS code J82115
3.5 km
SOUTHAMPTON SEA CITY PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S SURGERY, 1 JOHNSON STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 1LT
ODS code J82081
3.6 km
ST. ANDREW'S SURGERY
166 MARKET STREET, EASTLEIGH, SO50 5PT
ODS code J82071
4.0 km
LORDSHILL HEALTH CENTRE
LORDSHILL DISTRICT CENTRE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 8HY
ODS code J82002
4.0 km
SOLENT GP SURGERY
ADELAIDE HEALTH CENTRE, WILLIAM MACLEOD WAY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4XE
ODS code J82024
4.3 km
BROOK HOUSE SURGERY
98 OAKLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY PARK, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4NZ
ODS code J82213
4.3 km
EASTLEIGH MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEWTOWN ROAD, EASTLEIGH, SO50 9AG
ODS code J82020
4.5 km
SPCL SURGERY
49 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code Y07819
4.7 km
Showing 20 of 24 matching practices.
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bealing Close
BCT · Highfield
- 0.0 miles
Bealing Close
BCT · Highfield
- 0.1 miles
Bassett Green Primary School
BCT · Bassett Green
- 0.1 miles
Library
BCT · Highfield
- 0.1 miles
Tulip Road
BCT · Swaythling
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southampton 005G, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,248 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
- 6
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
89 open schools are in scope, including 54 primary and 11 secondary schools. Bassett Green Primary School is the nearest published school at 123 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,974 published events cover 12 months, averaging 247.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,204 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.