Foxbury Point in South East has a Check Local Score of 53/100 (fair), drawn from official data on safety, schools, transport, housing, amenities and the local environment, each measured against the national average — a score of 60 is typical for the country.
Foxbury Point is streets of semi-detached houses, mostly older residents, the kind of place where a house sale board sits outside a three-bed for a matter of weeks rather than months. With a median age of 48 against a national figure closer to 40, this reads as a settled, rather than a starter, suburb — people move in and stay.
The housing stock tells its own story: semi-detached homes dominate, almost every sale is freehold, and there's been no new build to speak of. A typical semi here fetches around £322,500, comfortably above the national semi-detached median of £273,000, and the area overall sits about a quarter above neighbouring Gosport's typical house price. That premium, combined with an income decile of 3, is worth sitting with — this isn't a wealthy pocket, but the housing has held its value regardless, which can mean you're paying for the setting rather than the paycheques of the people around you. Connectivity is solid, with full fibre reaching over 90% of properties, useful if home working is part of the calculation, though the transport and schools grades both sit below the rest of the profile — this is not an easy rail-commute suburb, and school quality locally is a genuine weak point rather than a footnote.
Green space is generous relative to the national average, and the environment grade here is the strongest in the whole profile — this is a place that looks after its outdoor space even where other services lag. Health provision reads as solidly average. Crime is where the picture needs a steady look: violent and sexual offences make up half of all recorded crime, a heavier share than you'd want to see repeated across every category, though the trend is described as improving and the overall safety grade sits comfortably above the national baseline. It's the one figure in an otherwise mid-to-strong profile that asks you to look twice, and it's worth doing so before deciding this is purely a quiet, low-key suburb — the wider grade pattern still points that way, but that single crime share is the outlier worth understanding on the ground rather than from a page.
This suits someone who wants a stable, freehold-heavy suburb with a strong outdoor environment and is prepared to drive rather than rail-commute, and who has already checked which local school will actually serve their children, given schooling is the one area where the numbers fall away from the rest of the picture.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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