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Portsmouth has two Westminster constituencies and fourteen wards. Every ward is compared below on eight census measures, and each constituency page carries its own wards, issues and representation.
Portsmouth North
The northern half of the city — Portsea Island north of roughly Fratton, plus Cosham, Paulsgrove, Drayton and Farlington on the mainland side.
MP: Amanda Martin (Labour)
7 wards · electorate 70,446
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ConstituencyPortsmouth South
The southern half of the city — Southsea, Old Portsmouth, the city centre, the naval base and the dockyard, plus Fratton, Milton and Eastney.
MP: Stephen Morgan (Labour)
7 wards · electorate 73,711
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Portsmouth as a whole
The whole city — Portsmouth unitary authority. Almost all official statistics are published at this level, so this is where the fullest picture is available.
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Portsmouth is not one place. Charles Dickens ward has 36.2% of households deprived in two or more ways; Drayton and Farlington has 10.8%. That is a three-and-a-half-fold gap inside a single small city.
How this connects to housing pressure →Every ward compared
Deprived on at least two of employment, education, health and housing at once — the census measure of compounded hardship rather than a single difficulty.
What this data is, and what it is not
Census 2021 was taken on 21 March 2021, during the third national lockdown. Student and workplace populations were displaced, and the figures do not update between censuses. Read them as a map of how wards differ from each other, not as this year's conditions.
Percentages are a published count divided by the published total for the same table and ward. The counts are ONS; the division is ours.
- ONS Census 2021 via NOMIS — TS011 households by deprivation dimensions
- ONS Census 2021 via NOMIS — TS054 tenure
- ONS Census 2021 via NOMIS — TS052 occupancy rating for bedrooms
- ONS Census 2021 via NOMIS — TS037 general health
- ONS Census 2021 via NOMIS — TS067 highest level of qualification
- ONS Census 2021 via NOMIS — TS045 car or van availability
Child poverty by ward
More recent than the census, but the council publishes only the two highest wards.
Portsmouth City Council publishes child poverty rates by ward in its Public Health Needs Summary. Charles Dickens has the highest rate in the city and Paulsgrove the second highest. Rates for the remaining wards are not published in a machine-readable form, so no full ward ranking is shown here rather than a partial one presented as complete.
Why there isn't a postcode search yet
Ward-to-constituency allocation follows the current (2024) Westminster boundaries. Portsmouth North and Portsmouth South did not change shape in the 2023 boundary review. Where a statistic exists only for Portsmouth as a whole, that is stated rather than split across the two seats — apportioning an authority-level figure by population would produce a number that looks local but is not measured.