PO14 1HW Fareham

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

Streets

House prices and rents in Fareham

A typical home in Fareham cost £334,303 in August 2026, 0.5% more than a year before. That is 8% more than five years earlier and 30% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£556,444
Semi-detached£345,982
Terraced£286,056
Flat or maisonette£160,054
Bought by a first-time buyer£264,017

Private renters in Fareham paid £1,179 a month on average in September 2026, 1.2% more than a year before. That is 26% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£833
Two bedrooms£1,076
Three bedrooms£1,334
Four or more bedrooms£1,939

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 Fareham in 2026-27: Band D £2,271 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,514£1,766£2,018£2,271£2,775£3,280£3,784£4,541

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (53% of about 790 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), 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
Newlands Farm Battery Storage Facility Phase 2 Fareham P/20/1562/FP Battery storage 40 MW Operational Sep 2022 1.9 km (1.2 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode.

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

4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the postcode spilled 30 times, for 64 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Black Brook, Blackbrook Stream, Trib of Portsmouth Harbour, Hoeford Stream.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Redlands Lane Fareham Cso Southern Water Black Brook 5 13 410 m (0.3 miles)
The Gillies Fareham Cso Southern Water Blackbrook Stream 11 33 440 m (0.3 miles)
Arundel Drive Fareham Cso Southern Water Trib of Portsmouth Harbour 14 19 720 m (0.4 miles)
Cotswold Walk Cso Southern Water Hoeford Stream 0 0 750 m (0.5 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

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the postcode.

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 59 addresses are between 13 m and 14 m above sea level (14 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 stationsFareham 1.7 million journeys in 2024–25390 m
Portchester 367,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Swanwick 563,000 journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Westley Grove Fareham90 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Fareham1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Ferry terminalWarsash Ferry Landing8 km (4.9 miles)
Car parksWest Quay Street Car Park1.4 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station360 m
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU15.9 km (9.9 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW78.2 km (49 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gudgeheath Lane Surgery Requires improvement Nov 20251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Broadlaw Pharmacy670 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 215 West Street [Dental Practice]600 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalOptegra Eye Hospital Good Feb 20224.7 km (2.9 miles)
Care homes10 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Redlands Lane Good Nov 2019400 m (0.2 miles)
Police stationEastleigh Police Station760 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Fareham Bishopsfield Road, Bishopsfield Rd Cashzone650 m (0.4 miles)

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.2 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 340 m from the postcode's centre.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Kidz Inc Ltd PO14 1NH Full day care 52 Nov 2025: Strong standard in 2 areas, Expected standard in 1, Needs attention in 3 340 m
Growing Places @ Merryfields PO14 1JJ Full day care 48 Good (Jun 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 420 m (0.3 miles)
CM Sports Holiday Camp PO14 1JJ Out-of-school day care 80 Not inspected yet 420 m (0.3 miles)
I Love to Learn Fareham PO16 7TE Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 590 m (0.4 miles)
The Rainbow Centre for Conductive Education Limited PO14 1BJ Full day care 20 Dec 2025: Exceptional in 6 areas 610 m (0.4 miles)
Turtles Day Nursery Limited PO16 0EN Full day care 46 Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 700 m (0.4 miles)
TJ's Club (Hampshire) Ltd PO16 0UD Out-of-school day care 50 Not inspected yet 820 m (0.5 miles)
Little Munchkins Fareham PO14 1PE Full day care 24 Feb 2026: Expected standard in 2 areas, Needs attention in 4 1 km (0.6 miles)
Little Angels Pre-School PO16 0QW Sessional day care 26 Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
LET'S PLAY @ FAREHAM LEISURE CENTRE PO16 7JU Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.2 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 6.2 ha360 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 250 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.4 ha130 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Gillies Allotments 2.4 ha320 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 6.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bishopwood, a listed building (Grade II*), 230 m north. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
BishopwoodListed building, Grade II*230 m north
Church of the Holy TrinityListed building, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) east
Fort FarehamScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Stores CoppiceWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Cunigre PondLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.3 miles) east
Pinks HillHill2.3 km (1.4 miles) east
Heavy ReachTidal water2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Foxbury PointWetland2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Funtley DellValley3.3 km (2 miles) north

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)8.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

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
55 to 5990
Under 555059

9 of the postcode's 59 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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.

3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported around the postcode in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 2 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist. 33% happened in the dark, and 67% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202200
202321
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
27 Jan 2023 20:00 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
9 Jan 2023 08:55 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
22 Jan 2021 08:30 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Wet road

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 Fareham: see them on the Fareham 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: 468 residents in 180 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 age3440
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work75%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 8 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 Westley Grove.