Resident population
259,230Southampton · Mid-2025
Resident population.
ONS mid-year estimate; uses the current release. Earlier estimates have been revised.
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Claimant count rate
4.2%% of residents aged 16–64 · Southampton · August 2026
Claimant count rate.
Not the unemployment rate. Includes people required to look for work who receive Universal Credit or JSA; not seasonally adjusted.
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Median full-time resident weekly pay
£724.4£ per week, before tax · Southampton · 2025
Median full-time resident weekly pay.
Gross weekly employee pay; ASHE resident analysis. This is not annual earnings.
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Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings · 2025
Full-time employees living in Southampton; excludes self-employed people.
The middle gross weekly employee pay is estimated from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. The preserved Southampton record identifies the resident earnings analysis. Weekly pay is not annual earnings; local estimates have sampling uncertainty.
Great Britain median weekly pay
£766.6£ per week, before tax · Great Britain · 2025
Great Britain median weekly pay.
Full-time employees; gross pay by residence.
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Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings · 2025
Full-time employees living in Great Britain; excludes self-employed people.
The Great Britain comparison uses the same Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings resident weekly-pay measure as the Southampton figure in the preserved Nomis profile. It is a survey estimate, not an administrative count or an opinion poll.
Average house price
£236,000Southampton · July 2026
Average house price.
Provisional; rounded to the nearest £1,000 by ONS. A mix-adjusted average, not a median.
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Average monthly private rent
£1,257£ per month · Southampton · August 2026
Average monthly private rent.
ONS Price Index of Private Rents; existing and new tenancies, not asking rents.
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Average monthly rent one year earlier
£1,216£ per month · Southampton · August 2025
Average monthly rent one year earlier.
Same release as August 2026.
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Adults seen by an NHS dentist
36%% of resident adults · Southampton · 24 months to 31 March 2026
Adults seen by an NHS dentist.
Patient-postcode location. Private dentistry excluded. NHSBSA population denominator; Table 3g.
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England adults seen by NHS dentist
40%% of resident adults · England · 24 months to 31 March 2026
England adults seen by NHS dentist.
Rounded national headline as published by NHSBSA.
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Persistent absence — secondary
27.2%Southampton · 2024/25
Persistent absence — secondary.
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Persistent absence — secondary
23.4%England · 2024/25
Persistent absence — secondary.
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Household waste reused, recycled or composted
29.2%Southampton · 2024/25
Household waste reused, recycled or composted.
Includes food waste. Comparisons reflect different collection systems; not all waste collected for recycling is accepted.
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Reported fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 residents
47.1incidents per 1,000 residents · Southampton · 2024/25
Reported fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 residents.
Recording practices differ between councils; incident counts are not directly comparable measures of environmental quality.
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Change in monitored nitrogen dioxide
-30%% change · Southampton · 2019–2024
Change in monitored nitrogen dioxide.
Council-reported reduction across its monitoring network. Does not describe all pollutants or every location.
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Local bus passenger journeys
22,200,000journeys · Southampton · 2024/25
Local bus passenger journeys.
Journeys on services in the city; includes repeat trips and visitors, not unique residents.
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Local bus passenger journeys, previous year
21,700,000journeys · Southampton · 2023/24
Local bus passenger journeys, previous year.
Same council/DfT release.
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Police-recorded crimes
31,147offences · Southampton · Year ending March 2026
Police-recorded crimes.
Home Office recorded offences, excluding fraud. ASB is recorded separately.
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Police-recorded crime rate
120.1offences per 1,000 people · Southampton · Year ending March 2026
Police-recorded crime rate.
Police-recorded crime excluding fraud, not all crime. ONS-published rate uses mid-2024 population. Some Hampshire offences cannot be assigned to a local authority. Comparators are selected coastal authorities, not a statistical peer group.
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England police-recorded crime rate
83.4offences per 1,000 people · England · Year ending March 2026
England police-recorded crime rate.
Police-recorded crime excluding fraud, not all crime. ONS-published rate uses mid-2024 population. Some Hampshire offences cannot be assigned to a local authority. Comparators are selected coastal authorities, not a statistical peer group.
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Annual change in recorded crime
-0.7%Southampton · Year ending March 2026
Annual change in recorded crime.
Against revised year ending March 2025 in the same ONS release; not against an older unrevised total.
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Housing Delivery Test result
30%Southampton · HDT 2025 (2022/23–2024/25)
Housing Delivery Test result.
Published measurement; homes include communal-accommodation equivalents, displayed rounded as in the official table. Consequence: Presumption.
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Households in temporary accommodation
414households · Southampton · 31 March 2026
Households in temporary accommodation.
Statutory homelessness administrative data. Quarterly assessment flows and point-in-time temporary accommodation are different measures. The denominator is the published household estimate, not population. National counts are rounded; suppressed cells are not zero.
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Children in relative low income after housing costs (%)
31%Southampton · FYE 2025
Children in relative low income after housing costs (%).
Children aged under 16 in relative low-income families; income below 60% of the contemporary median. DWP calibrates to HBAI. Disclosure control means ward totals may not equal city totals. FYE 2025 rates use mid-2024 population denominators; the tables use May 2024 ward boundaries. BHC and AHC are distinct measures. Historical values in this release have been revised.
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Median house price / median resident annual earnings
7ratio · Southampton · 2025
Median house price / median resident annual earnings.
Median price paid for properties divided by median gross annual full-time employee earnings of residents. This is not a household mortgage multiple, workplace earnings ratio or ratio computed from the monthly house-price index.
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Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings · 2025 published affordability measure
Homes sold in Southampton and full-time employees living in Southampton; these are separate populations.
The official ratio combines administrative records of home sales with annual employee earnings estimated by the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. It divides the middle sale price by the middle gross annual pay of employees living in the area. This is not a single survey, a household mortgage multiple, or a ratio made from the monthly house-price index.
International cruise passenger movements
2,645,000passenger movements · Southampton · 2025
International cruise passenger movements.
DfT counts passenger movements, including both departure and arrival for a return journey. Published in thousands and converted to movements. International cruise excludes transit calls and domestic cruises; not unique people or all port visitors.
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Children in low-income families after housing costs
45.2%Bevois electoral ward · Financial year ending 2025
Share of children under 16 living in families below the published relative low-income threshold after housing costs.
DWP May 2024 and ONS May 2025 ward codes match the mapped boundaries. Counts are disclosure-controlled; ward totals may differ from city totals. Population is an estimate, not an exact headcount. Ward population uses the November 2025 release; city trends use the July 2026 revision. Same-year totals may differ between those vintages.
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Children in low-income families after housing costs
19.3%Bassett electoral ward · Financial year ending 2025
Share of children under 16 living in families below the published relative low-income threshold after housing costs.
DWP May 2024 and ONS May 2025 ward codes match the mapped boundaries. Counts are disclosure-controlled; ward totals may differ from city totals. Population is an estimate, not an exact headcount. Ward population uses the November 2025 release; city trends use the July 2026 revision. Same-year totals may differ between those vintages.
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University of Southampton — higher education students (FTE)
24,340full-time equivalent students · University of Southampton — provider-wide · 2024/25
Teaching activity expressed as full-time equivalent students, across the provider.
Provider-wide student full-time equivalents, not headcount or the number living within the city. May include provision delivered outside the city. Rounded by OfS.
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Southampton Solent University — higher education students (FTE)
7,605full-time equivalent students · Solent University — provider-wide · 2024/25
Teaching activity expressed as full-time equivalent students, across the provider.
Provider-wide student full-time equivalents, not headcount or the number living within the city. May include provision delivered outside the city. Rounded by OfS.
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