Living in Portsmouth, Hampshire
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House prices and local earnings
Homes in Portsmouth cost 6.70 times median annual earnings for people working there (2025).
- Across England: 7.63 times (2025)
- Portsmouth a year earlier: 6.60 times (2024)
What this measures: the median price paid for homes in Portsmouth over the 12 months to September 2025, divided by the median gross annual pay of full-time employees who work in Portsmouth, wherever they live. That is what "workplace-based" means - it is about jobs in the area, not the earnings of people who live there. Earnings come from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (April 2025). A higher ratio means homes are less affordable for people working locally. The latest year uses provisional earnings, which ONS revises the following year. This is a council-area figure, not a valuation of any home.
Source: Office for National Statistics, House price to workplace-based earnings ratio, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Last reviewed 20 October 2026.
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Local administration around Portsmouth
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Recent sold prices near Portsmouth (postcode sector PO2 8)
| Address | Price | Type | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2C, STANLEY ROAD | £100,000 | Terraced | Sep 2026 |
| 99, RANELAGH ROAD | £240,000 | Terraced | Sep 2026 |
| 104, CARDIFF ROAD | £220,000 | Terraced | Sep 2026 |
| 107, TIPNER ROAD | £254,000 | Terraced | Sep 2026 |
| 17, NORTH END GROVE | £250,000 | Terraced | Sep 2026 |
| 9, GRUNEISEN ROAD | £198,000 | Terraced | Aug 2026 |
| 101, LOWER DERBY ROAD | £212,500 | Terraced | Aug 2026 |
| 132, NEWCOMEN ROAD | £193,750 | Terraced | Aug 2026 |
| 51, WALDEN ROAD | £200,000 | Terraced | Aug 2026 |
| 103, LONDON AVENUE | £235,000 | Terraced | Aug 2026 |
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