Student Accommodation in Highfield

Student housing in Highfield, Southampton

Highfield wraps around the University of Southampton's main campus, so most people hunting for student housing in Highfield want the same thing: a ten-minute walk to a 9am, not a bus you have to catch in the dark. Housr keeps that search simple. Filter by weekly price, bedrooms and bathrooms, see everything laid out on the map, and shortlist the houses that actually fit how you want to live.

What's around Highfield

This is the quieter, leafier end of student Southampton. You're right next to Southampton Common, the biggest green space in the city, which runs a free parkrun every Saturday morning and has the Hawthorns wildlife centre tucked inside it. Good for a run, a reset between deadlines, or pretending you're going to start running.

Day to day, you've got the campus cafés on your doorstep and the shops along Portswood Road a short stroll south when you need a proper supermarket. Highfield itself stays residential, so when you want a louder night, Portswood's bars are walkable and town is a quick bus away. It suits people who like being close to campus without living on top of the noise.

Getting around

The Unilink interchange sits right by the campus, which makes this one of the easiest spots in the city to get around from. The U1, U2 and U6 services all run through Highfield, with the U1 connecting the city centre, Portswood, campus and Southampton Airport roughly every ten minutes on weekdays.

For trains, Swaythling station is about a 20-minute walk or a short hop on the bus, and St Denys is close too, both on the line into Southampton Central. Most of Highfield is flat enough to cycle, so a bike covers campus, Portswood and the Common without much effort.

Universities near Highfield

The University of Southampton's Highfield Campus is genuinely on the doorstep, and Avenue Campus, where a lot of humanities teaching happens, is a short walk away. That's the main draw of the area. Solent University students live here too, with the city-centre campus around 25 minutes door to door on the U1.

Have a look at what's near each one on our University of Southampton accommodation page and our Solent University page.

Accommodation in Highfield

Student houses in Highfield run from shared places for groups of three to six through to studios, en-suite rooms and single rooms in smaller house-shares. On Housr you can sort student accommodation in Highfield by weekly price, set the bedrooms and bathrooms you need, and flag whether you're after a studio or a single room, so the list only shows places worth your time.

Start your Highfield search now: set your price and room filters above to see what's available, or look across to the houses in the Polygon and the rest of student Southampton.

Bills, sorted

Splitting bills off a spreadsheet is where most house-shares fall apart. Housr Bills puts energy, water, WiFi and free Contents Cover into one monthly payment, managed in the app. It runs on split liability, so if a housemate misses their share, the rest of you aren't left covering it. One payment, one place to check, far less chasing.