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On Merton Crescent, in Portchester South East
What it's like at PO16 9NL: every home that has sold on Merton Crescent since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Merton Crescent; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 21 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 3, Merton CrescentDetached | Sept 2018 | £275,000 | 80 m² | £3,438/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Merton CrescentDetached | Jul 2015 | £230,000 | 64 m² | £3,594/m² | 2 |
| 5, Merton CrescentSemi-detached | Oct 2006 | £162,500 | – | – | 3 |
| 6, Merton CrescentSemi-detached | Sept 2016 | £197,000 | 47 m² | £4,191/m² | 4 |
| 7, Merton CrescentSemi-detached | Jul 2024 | £250,000 | 47 m² | £5,319/m² | 1 |
| 9, Merton CrescentSemi-detached | Jun 2014 | £155,550 | 39 m² | £3,988/m² | 2 |
| 10, Merton CrescentSemi-detached | Sept 2020 | £339,995 | 95 m² | £3,579/m² | 4 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Portchester, about a 15-minute walk (1.0 km), with 367k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Fratton.
The nearest bus stop is Neville Avenue, 250 m away, with a bus about every 6 minutes on weekdays (route 3); 39 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Castle Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (550 m); 68% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Red Barn Community Primary School (0.9 km).
The nearest secondary is Portchester Community School, 350 m away; Attainment 8: 41.8 · 4.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: UTC Portsmouth (4.1 km) and St Edmund's Catholic School (5.7 km).
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Iceland Frozen Foods, 750 m away, with One Stop closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Westlands Medical Centre (650 m), with Carefirst Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (650 m).
For a haircut, Cutting Edge is 750 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen Alexandra Hospital, 4.0 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 59% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 61% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 7 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
Castle Takeaway is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and The Cormorant the nearest pub (600 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 48 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 54 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 13% flats and 14% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 42% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
Bungalow country: 29% of homes are bungalows.
The nearest park is Alton Grove Open Space, 300 m away; for exercise, Wicor Recreation Ground (1.6 km).
A swim is a short trip away: Lee-on-Solent, 7.3 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.4 µg/m³).
For holidays, Southampton is 20 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 75 km.
20 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Fareham and Waterlooville constituency: Suella Braverman MP (Reform UK), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 6,079 (12.1%), turnout 65%. Vote shares: Conservative 35%, Labour 23%, Liberal Democrat 19%, Reform UK 18%.
5 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near PO16 9NL →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 46% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 26% are 65 or over.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
On this street: 0 of 18 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.4% | 1.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.7% | 91.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.6% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.7% | 7.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.2% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 21 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.