Property market
The five-year median is £245,000 from 3 recorded sales in SO18 2QU. 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.
SO18 2QU
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
- SO18
- Postcode sector
- SO18 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO18 2QU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO18
- Postcode sector
- SO18 2
- Latitude
- 50.942237
- Longitude
- -1.370093
- British National Grid easting
- 444,352
- British National Grid northing
- 116,056
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
- E00087196
- Lower layer super output area
- Southampton 003B · E01017265
- Middle layer super output area
- Southampton 003 · E02003551
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 SO18
Property
35 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 91, Walnut Avenue, Swaythling, Southampton, SO18 2QU | 21 March 2025 | £290,000 |
| 119, Walnut Avenue, Swaythling, Southampton, SO18 2QU | 1 September 2022 | £245,000 |
| 97, Walnut Avenue, Swaythling, Southampton, SO18 2QU | 20 August 2021 | £240,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 84
- Primary
- 52
- Secondary
- 9
- 282 m
Mansbridge Primary School
Foundation school
- 969 m
Saint George Catholic Voluntary Aided College Southampton
Voluntary aided school
- 1.3 km
The Gregg School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,767
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 752
- Shoplifting 198
- Criminal damage and arson 136
- Anti social behaviour 127
- Vehicle crime 121
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 84
- Postcode households
- 35
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- SO18 2 residents
- 9,999
42 female, 42 male
Age bands in SO18 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 15.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.3%
1,766 residents
1,525 residents
2,536 residents
2,303 residents
1,583 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SO18 2 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
21
within 5 km
STONEHAM LANE SURGERY
CITY GATEWAY, PARKVILLE ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 2JA
ODS code J82087
673 m
BURGESS ROAD SURGERY
357A BURGESS ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 3BD
ODS code J82001
1.2 km
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE SOUTHAMPTON
BUILDING 48, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO17 1BJ
ODS code J82080
2.0 km
ST. ANDREW'S SURGERY
166 MARKET STREET, EASTLEIGH, SO50 5PT
ODS code J82071
2.8 km
WEST END ROAD SURGERY
62 WEST END ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO18 6TG
ODS code J82040
2.9 km
ALMA ROAD SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 68 ALMA ROAD, PORTSWOOD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 6UX
ODS code J82122
3.1 km
EASTLEIGH MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEWTOWN ROAD, EASTLEIGH, SO50 9AG
ODS code J82020
3.4 km
HOMELESS HEALTHCARE TEAM
30 CRANBURY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 0LT
ODS code J82217
3.6 km
WALNUT TREE SURGERY
14 CARLTON ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 2HQ
ODS code J82605
4.0 km
ALDERMOOR SURGERY
ALDERMOOR CLOSE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 5ST
ODS code J82092
4.0 km
BOYATT WOOD SURGERY
BOYATT SHOPPING CENTRE, SHAKESPEARE ROAD, EASTLEIGH, SO50 4QP
ODS code J82169
4.0 km
RAYMOND ROAD SURGERY
34 RAYMOND ROAD, UPPER SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5AL
ODS code J82126
4.3 km
HILL LANE SURGERY
162 HILL LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5DD
ODS code J82207
4.4 km
SOUTHAMPTON SEA CITY PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S SURGERY, 1 JOHNSON STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 1LT
ODS code J82081
4.5 km
ATHERLEY HOUSE SURGERY
143-145 SHIRLEY ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3FH
ODS code J82115
4.8 km
CHEVIOT ROAD SURGERY
1 SHIRLEY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5RP
ODS code J82062
4.8 km
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
4.9 km
STOKEWOOD SURGERY
FAIR OAK ROAD, FAIR OAK, EASTLEIGH, SO50 8AU
ODS code J82018
4.9 km
PARK SURGERY
HURSLEY ROAD, CHANDLER'S FORD, EASTLEIGH, SO53 2ZH
ODS code J82143
4.9 km
SPCL SURGERY
49 PORTSMOUTH ROAD, WOOLSTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO19 9RL
ODS code Y07819
4.9 km
Showing 20 of 21 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Walnut Avenue
BCT · Swaythling
- 0.1 miles
Walnut Avenue
BCT · Swaythling
- 0.1 miles
Monks Way
BCT · Mansbridge
- 0.1 miles
Monks Way
BCT · Mansbridge
- 0.1 miles
Octavia Road
BCT · Mansbridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southampton 003B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
3,521 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
84 open schools are in scope, including 52 primary and 9 secondary schools. Mansbridge Primary School is the nearest published school at 282 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,767 published events cover 12 months, averaging 147.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 752 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.