Property market
The five-year median is £442,500 from 5 recorded sales in SO23 8GL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Winchester is £471,136 in June 2026, up 4.6% year on year.
SO23 8GL
St Michael · Winchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Winchester
- Ward
- St Michael
- Local authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester
- Postcode district
- SO23
- Postcode sector
- SO23 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO23 8GL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO23
- Postcode sector
- SO23 8
- Latitude
- 51.062919
- Longitude
- -1.320536
- British National Grid easting
- 447,710
- British National Grid northing
- 129,507
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Winchester · E07000094
- Electoral ward
- St Michael · E05011004
- Parish or community
- E43000074
- Westminster constituency
- Winchester · E14001587
- Output area
- E00118200
- Lower layer super output area
- Winchester 007C · E01023263
- Middle layer super output area
- Winchester 007 · E02004835
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 SO23
Property
73 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Queens Court, 14, Peninsula Square, Winchester, SO23 8GL | 18 December 2024 | £475,000 |
| Queens Court, 16, Peninsula Square, Winchester, SO23 8GL | 26 July 2024 | £463,000 |
| Queens Court, 21, Peninsula Square, Winchester, SO23 8GL | 5 April 2023 | £442,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 2
- 81 m
Swanwick Lodge
Secure units
- 551 m
University of Winchester
Higher education institutions
- 671 m
The Pilgrims School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,112
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,272
- Shoplifting 447
- Public order 266
- Drugs 244
- Anti social behaviour 226
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 46
- Postcode households
- 25
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- SO23 8 residents
- 3,011
23 female, 23 male
Age bands in SO23 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 16.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.5%
297 residents
505 residents
901 residents
763 residents
597 residents
This postcode contained 1.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SO23 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
4
within 5 km
ST PAUL'S SURGERY
ALISON WAY, WINCHESTER, SO22 5DD
ODS code J82050
344 m
ST CLEMENTS PARTNERSHIP
28 UPPER BROOK STREET, WINCHESTER, SO23 8DG
ODS code J82035
589 m
FRIARSGATE PRACTICE
STOCKBRIDGE ROAD, WEEKE, WINCHESTER, SO22 6EL
ODS code J82130
1.7 km
TWYFORD SURGERY
HAZELEY ROAD, TWYFORD, WINCHESTER, SO21 1QY
ODS code J82116
4.9 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
Clifton Hill
BCT · Winchester
- 0.1 miles
Westgate
BCT · Winchester
- 0.1 miles
Westgate
BCT · Winchester
- 0.1 miles
St. Thomas Church
BCT · Winchester
- 0.2 miles
St. Thomas Church
BCT · Winchester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Winchester 007C, 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
31,389 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
28 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 2 secondary schools. Swanwick Lodge is the nearest published school at 81 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,112 published events cover 12 months, averaging 259.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,272 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.