Leesland Road
Suburb · 1,912 residents
52Fair
Fair · better than 2 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Food & drink scores 35, below the typical 60
- Schools scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Leesland Road
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Is Leesland Road a good place to live?
Leesland Road scores 52/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is environment (69).
It scores lowest on food & drink (35) and schools (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Leesland Road in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Leesland Road
Leesland Road is terraced streets, front doors opening straight onto the pavement, and a density that feels more inner-city than the word "suburb" suggests — this is a tightly packed pocket of Gosport, not a place with much space between houses. The people you'll see out and about skew into settled middle age rather than students or young professionals, and the housing stock backs that up: this is a street of Victorian and Edwardian terraces, not new-builds chasing first-time buyers.
Housing here is almost a formula rather than a market: nine in ten sales are terraced houses, freehold is the overwhelming norm, and at a median of around £205,000 it undercuts even its own council area, Gosport, by close to 13%. A For Sale board on this road is signalling affordability first — this sits well below the regional median and the national one too, and the five-year price trend has been essentially flat rather than moving in either direction. Schools are a mixed picture: Leesland Church of England Junior School and St Mary's Catholic Primary both carry Good Ofsted ratings, so families have decent options close by, but the area's own schools grade lands lower than its housing or safety grades, which tells you the ratings pool includes some patchier settings beyond those two. Transport is thin rather than absent — this is a two-stop-count area, so a car or bus habit will serve you better than an assumption of easy rail access.