Student Accommodation in Portswood

Student housing in Portswood, Southampton

Portswood is the default answer when a Southampton student asks where to live, and for good reason. It has the biggest student population in the city, a high street built around what students actually need, and a ten-minute walk to campus. If you're after student housing in Portswood, the choice is wide, which is where Housr earns its keep. Filter by weekly price, bedrooms and bathrooms, see it all on the map, and shortlist the houses that fit.

What's around Portswood

The high street is the draw. You've got a Sainsbury's, a Waitrose and an Iceland along Portswood Road, so the weekly shop is a walk, not a bus trip. Food runs from Baboo Ji for vegetarian Indian to Trago Lounge for an easy daytime bite, with takeaways lining the road for the nights you can't be bothered to cook.

For a night out you don't have to go far. The Hobbit at the Bevois Valley end of Portswood Road does live music and turns into a proper late venue at weekends, and there are gyms and cafés filling in the gaps between. It's the area where you can do your whole week without leaving the postcode, which is half the reason students stay put once they've lived here.

Getting around

Portswood sits on the main route between campus and town, so the buses are frequent. The Unilink U1, U2 and U6 all run through, with the U1 reaching the University of Southampton's Highfield Campus in under ten minutes and Solent University in around twenty.

Plenty of students skip the bus entirely: campus is roughly a ten-minute walk and the city centre about the same in the other direction. St Denys station is close for trains toward Southampton Central and along the coast, and the flat roads make cycling an easy shout.

Universities near Portswood

This is the closest the city's busy student scene gets to the University of Southampton, with Highfield Campus a short walk or one stop on the U1. Solent University students live here too and take the bus down into the centre in about twenty minutes.

Check what's around each on our University of Southampton accommodation page and the Solent University page.

Accommodation in Portswood

Because so many students live here, the range of student houses in Portswood is broad: big shared houses for groups of five or six, smaller three and four-bed places, plus studios, en-suites and single rooms. On Housr, sort by weekly price, set your bedrooms and bathrooms, and filter for a studio or single room, so you're only looking at student accommodation in Portswood that matches. Weigh Portswood up against the houses in Highfield, the Polygon and across Southampton.

Bills, sorted

A six-bed house and one shared spreadsheet is a recipe for arguments. Housr Bills bundles energy, water, WiFi and free Contents Cover into one monthly payment, all handled in the app. Split liability keeps it fair, so if someone's late, it doesn't become everyone else's problem. One payment, sorted.