Property market
The five-year median is £282,500 from 2 recorded sales in SO16 3BU. 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 3BU
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 3BU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO16
- Postcode sector
- SO16 3
- Latitude
- 50.939002
- Longitude
- -1.385664
- British National Grid easting
- 443,261
- British National Grid northing
- 115,687
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
- E00087208
- Lower layer super output area
- Southampton 005A · E01017266
- 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
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 222, Honeysuckle Road, Southampton, SO16 3BU | 7 August 2025 | £280,000 |
| 224, Honeysuckle Road, Southampton, SO16 3BU | 31 October 2024 | £285,000 |
| 222, Honeysuckle Road, Southampton, SO16 3BU | 17 January 2018 | £189,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 88
- Primary
- 53
- Secondary
- 11
- 387 m
Swaythling Primary School
Foundation school
- 390 m
Bassett Green Primary School
Foundation school
- 746 m
Hardmoor Nursery & Early Years Centre - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,832
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,158
- Shoplifting 365
- Public order 215
- Anti social behaviour 200
- Criminal damage and arson 180
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 57
- Postcode households
- 20
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- SO16 3 residents
- 10,903
30 female, 27 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 0.5% 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+
- 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
24
within 5 km
BURGESS ROAD SURGERY
357A BURGESS ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 3BD
ODS code J82001
41 m
STONEHAM LANE SURGERY
CITY GATEWAY, PARKVILLE ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 2JA
ODS code J82087
508 m
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE SOUTHAMPTON
BUILDING 48, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO17 1BJ
ODS code J82080
893 m
ALMA ROAD SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 68 ALMA ROAD, PORTSWOOD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 6UX
ODS code J82122
2.2 km
HOMELESS HEALTHCARE TEAM
30 CRANBURY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 0LT
ODS code J82217
2.9 km
ALDERMOOR SURGERY
ALDERMOOR CLOSE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 5ST
ODS code J82092
2.9 km
WALNUT TREE SURGERY
14 CARLTON ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 2HQ
ODS code J82605
3.0 km
WEST END ROAD SURGERY
62 WEST END ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO18 6TG
ODS code J82040
3.1 km
RAYMOND ROAD SURGERY
34 RAYMOND ROAD, UPPER SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5AL
ODS code J82126
3.2 km
HILL LANE SURGERY
162 HILL LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5DD
ODS code J82207
3.3 km
CHEVIOT ROAD SURGERY
1 SHIRLEY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5RP
ODS code J82062
3.7 km
ST. ANDREW'S SURGERY
166 MARKET STREET, EASTLEIGH, SO50 5PT
ODS code J82071
3.7 km
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
3.8 km
SOUTHAMPTON SEA CITY PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S SURGERY, 1 JOHNSON STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 1LT
ODS code J82081
3.8 km
ATHERLEY HOUSE SURGERY
143-145 SHIRLEY ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3FH
ODS code J82115
3.8 km
EASTLEIGH MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEWTOWN ROAD, EASTLEIGH, SO50 9AG
ODS code J82020
4.2 km
LORDSHILL HEALTH CENTRE
LORDSHILL DISTRICT CENTRE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 8HY
ODS code J82002
4.4 km
BROOK HOUSE SURGERY
98 OAKLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY PARK, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4NZ
ODS code J82213
4.6 km
SOLENT GP SURGERY
ADELAIDE HEALTH CENTRE, WILLIAM MACLEOD WAY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4XE
ODS code J82024
4.7 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
Aster Road
BCT · Swaythling
- 0.1 miles
Woodcote Road
BCT · Swaythling
- 0.1 miles
Aster Road
BCT · Swaythling
- 0.1 miles
Tulip Road
BCT · Swaythling
- 0.1 miles
Aster Road
BCT · Swaythling
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southampton 005A, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,243 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
Schools
88 open schools are in scope, including 53 primary and 11 secondary schools. Swaythling Primary School is the nearest published school at 387 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,832 published events cover 12 months, averaging 236 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,158 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.