PO12 4HQ Gosport

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Hardway. Region: South East.

Streets

House prices and rents in Gosport

A typical home in Gosport cost £240,093 in August 2026, 1.6% more than a year before. That is 10% more than five years earlier and 34% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£488,598
Semi-detached£312,425
Terraced£240,790
Flat or maisonette£151,720
Bought by a first-time buyer£209,790

Private renters in Gosport paid £1,173 a month on average in September 2026, 3.8% more than a year before. That is 37% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£825
Two bedrooms£1,049
Three bedrooms£1,279
Four or more bedrooms£1,734

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Council tax

What each band costs in Gosport in 2026-27: Band D £2,344 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,563£1,823£2,084£2,344£2,865£3,386£3,907£4,689

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (72% of about 640 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the postcode.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Paulsgrove Landfill Site Landfill Gas 2.4 MW Operational Feb 1998 4.4 km (2.7 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Flood risk

No address in this postcode is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this postcode.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

The nearest projected erosion zone is 350 m from the postcode (by 2105, if defences are not maintained or built).

ProjectionPolicy for the frontageErosionDistance
By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Selsey Bill to Hurst Spit none (the line is held)440 m (0.3 miles)
By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Selsey Bill to Hurst Spit none (the line is held)440 m (0.3 miles)
By 2105, if defences are not maintained or builtNo intervention Selsey Bill to Hurst Spit up to 106 m350 m

Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

5 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode spilled 11 times, for 36 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Portsmouth Harbour.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Hardway Ceo, Priory Road, Gosport Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour 0 0 560 m (0.3 miles)
Grove Road Gosport Ceo Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour 8 34 630 m (0.4 miles)
Lees Lane Gosport Ceo Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour 0 0 930 m (0.6 miles)
Cambridge Road/Brockhurst Road Ps Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour 3 2 930 m (0.6 miles)
Middlecroft Lane Gosport Cso Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour 0 0 940 m (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode, the nearest 330 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Creek West Of Priddys Hard Gosport, Hampshire Not recorded Commercial, household 330 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The postcode's 24 addresses are between 6 m and 7 m above sea level (7 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsPortsmouth Harbour 2.1 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Portsmouth and Southsea 1.6 million journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.3 miles)
Portchester 367,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Reeds Road Hardway120 m
Bus or coach stationGosport Interchange2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Ferry terminalGosport Ferry Terminal2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Car parksNorth Cross Street No 2 Car Park2 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest E.ON Drive Public Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU21.8 km (14 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW76.8 km (48 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Willow Group Good Jun 20251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brockhurst Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gosport Smile Clinic1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalGosport War Memorial Hospital Requires improvement Sep 20262 km (1.3 miles)
Care homes5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Benedicts Ferndale House Good Mar 2019120 m
Police stationHampshire Constabulary3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Southern Co-Operative Gosport Dartmouth Court, Priddys Hard Cashzone430 m (0.3 miles)

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.1 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 290 m from the postcode's centre.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
HEDCA Preschool PO12 4JB Full day care 26 Good (Mar 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 290 m
ActiveMe 360 CIC @ St John's CE Primary School PO12 4JH Out-of-school day care 35 Not inspected yet 550 m (0.3 miles)
ID PE & Sport's Elson Holiday Course Centre PO12 4EX Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 580 m (0.4 miles)
Elson Breakfast & After School Club PO12 4EU Out-of-school day care 67 Not inspected yet 720 m (0.4 miles)
Little Barn Owls Pre-School PO12 4EU Full day care 30 Good (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 720 m (0.4 miles)
Brockhurst Primary Holiday Camp PO12 4SL Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 750 m (0.5 miles)
Gateway Brockhurst Avery PO12 4SL Full day care 48 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 750 m (0.5 miles)
HAF Freedom Centre PO12 4PH Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Gateway Elson PO12 4BN Sessional day care 28 Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Rosies Little Blessings PO12 4QA Full day care 46 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 720 childminders and 151 home childcarers (nannies) in Hampshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre.

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,050 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 430 m²370 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.1 ha320 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Elson Allotments 1.5 ha320 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 'E' Magazine (Building 436) and Enclosing Walls, a listed building (Grade II*), 810 m (0.5 miles) east. 23 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
'E' Magazine (Building 436) and Enclosing WallsListed building, Grade II*810 m (0.5 miles) east
Earthwork defences at Priddy's HardScheduled monument820 m (0.5 miles) south-east
C Magazine (Building 435)Listed building, Grade II*880 m (0.5 miles) east
Quick Fire Shell Store (Building 433) Approx. 12M N of 'A' Magazine, Museum BuildingsListed building, Grade II*900 m (0.6 miles) east
'A' Magazine, Museum BuildingsListed building, Grade I930 m (0.6 miles) east
Fort BrockhurstScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
A length of the Gosport Lines west of Weevil LaneScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Clayhall Royal Naval CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Camber BasinWetland1 km (0.6 miles) east
Burrow IslandIsland1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Elson WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Frater LakeTidal water2 km (1.2 miles) north
Oakdene WoodsWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Basin No 1Lake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)9.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)9.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
Under 552424

None of the postcode's 24 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 250 m of the postcode's centre. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

8 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported around the postcode in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 7 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a child under 16. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202131
202210
202310
202430
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
9 Oct 2024 15:54 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
5 Aug 2024 14:00 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
7 Apr 2024 10:29 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
22 Feb 2023 13:28 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
11 Nov 2022 11:03 Slight 3 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
18 Dec 2021 14:45 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
14 Dec 2021 09:29 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
4 Oct 2021 12:06 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Gosport: see them on the Gosport page.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 264 residents in 125 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age5540
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over35%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright58%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)12%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)93%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification12%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 7 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Fisgard Road.