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On Shakespeare Road, in Central Eastleigh
What it's like at SO50 4FY: every home that has sold on Shakespeare 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).
Sales and extensions on Shakespeare Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 46 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 55, Shakespeare RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2008 | £192,000 | 60 m² | £3,200/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57, Shakespeare RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2015 | £265,000 | 102 m² | £2,598/m² | 2 |
| 59, Shakespeare RoadFlat | Nov 2016 | £255,000 | 91 m² | £2,802/m² | 3 |
| 61, Shakespeare RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2002 | £132,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 63, Shakespeare RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2013 | £250,000 | 148 m² | £1,689/m² | 2 |
| 65, Shakespeare RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2019 | £270,000 | 100 m² | £2,700/m² | 1 |
| 71, Shakespeare RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2022 | £285,000 | 99 m² | £2,879/m² | 1 |
| 71a, Shakespeare RoadDetached | Dec 2005 | £260,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 73, Shakespeare RoadTerraced · company-owned | Apr 2024 | £258,500 | 78 m² | £3,314/m² | 1 |
| 85, Shakespeare RoadTerraced | Dec 2025 | £258,000 | 87 m² | £2,966/m² | 1 |
| 87, Shakespeare RoadTerraced | Nov 2019 | £225,000 | 78 m² | £2,885/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Eastleigh, about a 10-minute walk (900 m), with 1.2m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Winchester.
The nearest bus stop is Arthur Road, 100 m away, with a bus about every 46 minutes on weekdays (route 5); 10 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 8 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is Shakespeare Infant School, a few minutes' walk (50 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Crestwood Community School, 50 m away; Attainment 8: 38.1 · 8.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Saint George Catholic Voluntary Aided College Southampton (3.1 km) and Thornden School (3.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express, 600 m away, with Boyatt Pharmacy closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Boyatt Wood Surgery (300 m), with Boyatt Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Quiffys is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Southampton General Hospital, 6.8 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 68% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 43 restaurants and cafés and 10 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Cleverchefs @ Shakespeare Juniors is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and the Arrow the nearest pub (200 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (12 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 179 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 36% flats and 2% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1919-1929.
The nearest park is Lawn Road Park, 250 m away; for exercise, Curves (750 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, Southampton is 1.9 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 84 km.
Most households own their home, 28% rent privately.
It's young: 20% of residents are aged 15–29.
33 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.
Eastleigh constituency: Liz Jarvis MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 1,546 (3.3%), turnout 66%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 34%, Conservative 31%, Labour 15%, Reform UK 13%.
10 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 SO50 4FY →
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: 1 of 39 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.6% | 1.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.6% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 81.6% | 90.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 16.6% | 7.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.5% | 1.0% | 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.
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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 46 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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