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On Essex Road, in Southsea Prince Albert Road
What it's like at PO4 8DQ: every home that has sold on Essex Road 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 5 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Essex Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
5 of the 121 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 62, Essex RoadTerraced | Jun 2019 | £238,000 | 113 m² | £2,106/m² | 2 |
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| 68, Essex RoadTerraced | Jun 2023 | £348,000 | 111 m² | £3,135/m² | 6 |
| 69, Essex RoadTerraced | Mar 2013 | £225,000 | 147 m² | £1,531/m² | 1 |
| 71, Essex RoadTerraced | May 2024 | £348,000 | 101 m² | £3,446/m² | 1 |
| 72, Essex RoadTerraced | May 2003 | £189,995 | 107 m² | £1,776/m² | 3 |
| 73, Essex RoadTerraced | Sept 2025 | £270,000 | 110 m² | £2,455/m² | 1 |
| 75, Essex RoadTerraced | Jul 2009 | £165,000 | 99 m² | £1,667/m² | 3 |
| 76, Essex RoadTerraced | Jun 2020 | £382,000 | 136 m² | £2,809/m² | 3 |
| 77, Essex RoadTerraced | Oct 2016 | £287,500 | 87 m² | £3,305/m² | 2 |
| 78, Essex RoadTerraced | Sept 2021 | £365,000 | 103 m² | £3,544/m² | 2 |
| 79, Essex RoadTerraced | Aug 2002 | £142,000 | 98 m² | £1,449/m² | 3 |
| 80, Essex RoadTerraced | Jun 2014 | £240,000 | 116 m² | £2,069/m² | 2 |
| 82, Essex RoadTerraced | Jun 2016 | £327,500 | 115 m² | £2,848/m² | 2 |
| 84, Essex RoadTerraced | May 2025 | £340,000 | 117 m² | £2,906/m² | 4 |
| 85, Essex RoadTerraced | Jun 2015 | £224,000 | 99 m² | £2,263/m² | 1 |
| 86, Essex RoadTerraced | Nov 2025 | £400,000 | 103 m² | £3,883/m² | 2 |
| 87, Essex RoadTerraced | Mar 2023 | £365,000 | 101 m² | £3,614/m² | 2 |
| 88, Essex RoadTerraced | Nov 2009 | £230,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 91, Essex RoadTerraced | Feb 2021 | £248,000 | 93 m² | £2,667/m² | 1 |
| 92, Essex RoadTerraced | Oct 2004 | £230,000 | 138 m² | £1,667/m² | 2 |
| 93, Essex RoadTerraced | Dec 1997 | £62,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 94, Essex RoadTerraced | Jun 2007 | £260,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 99, Essex RoadTerraced · company-owned | Jan 1997 | £46,000 | 88 m² | £523/m² | 1 |
| 103, Essex RoadTerraced | Jun 2008 | £200,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 105, Essex RoadTerraced | Jul 1999 | £79,995 | 134 m² | £597/m² | 2 |
| 107, Essex RoadTerraced | Apr 2009 | £189,950 | – | – | 4 |
| 109, Essex RoadTerraced | Jan 2015 | £250,000 | 97 m² | £2,577/m² | 3 |
| 111, Essex RoadTerraced | Jan 2020 | £267,000 | 95 m² | £2,811/m² | 2 |
| 113, Essex RoadTerraced | Jun 1998 | £68,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Fratton, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 2.1m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Prince Albert Road, 100 m away, with a bus about every 3 minutes on weekdays (routes U1, 1, U2, 13); 178 departures an hour from the 21 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Wimborne Primary School, a few minutes' walk (200 m); 51% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Miltoncross Academy, 950 m away; Attainment 8: 36.3 · 5.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: St Edmund's Catholic School (2.1 km) and UTC Portsmouth (4.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is The Southern Co-operative - Portsmouth Eastney Road, 300 m away, with Stephens Newsagent closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Devonshire Practice (350 m), with Rowlands Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, The Hair Tree is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Queen Alexandra Hospital, 6.8 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 7 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Portsmouth Winter Road Costcutter is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and The Brewer's Tap the nearest pub (300 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (9 of them).
It's a low-crime area: about 66 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 19% flats and 2% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 79% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Milton Park, 250 m away; for exercise, Fratton Gym (650 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Eastney, 1.1 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, Southampton is 27 km away, and London Gatwick, with far more destinations, 74 km.
Most households own their home, 33% rent privately.
58 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.
Portsmouth South constituency: Stephen Morgan MP (Labour), since June 2017. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 13,155 (33.8%), turnout 53%. Vote shares: Labour 48%, Reform UK 15%, Conservative 15%, Liberal Democrat 13%.
17 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 PO4 8DQ →
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: 2 of 89 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.6% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 87.8% | 85.4% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 11.5% | 12.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.3% | 1.5% | 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 121 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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