Portsmouth North

Amanda Martin (Labour) has been MP for Portsmouth North since 4 July 2024. Contact details on the Parliament website ↗

The constituency

7 whole wards, 100,133 residents at the 2021 Census. July 2024 boundaries.

Ward-based figures below are possible because every ward lies wholly inside one constituency: the wards’ Census 2021 population adds up to 100,133, against ONS’s constituency total of 100,134 (a difference of 1 from disclosure control).

Key figures against the rest of the city

Census 2021 shares, built from whole wards with summed counts. Constituency beside Other constituency and City.

Census 2021	Portsmouth North	Portsmouth South	Portsmouth
Homes rented privately	20.0%	36.4%	28.6%
Homes rented from a council or housing association	15.3%	20.4%	18.0%
People aged 65 or over	16.7%	13.0%	14.8%
People in bad or very bad health	4.8%	5.1%	5.0%
People with no qualifications	19.7%	15.4%	17.4%
Households deprived in two or more ways	18.5%	20.2%	19.4%

Census figures describe March 2021. Differences are percentage points.

Work and benefits

Published for the constituency itself. Official data · ONS claimant count

3.7%

of residents aged 16 to 64 claiming unemployment-related benefits Constituency September 2026 Office for National Statistics (Nomis) ↗ · retrieved 9 Nov 2026

2,440 people. Portsmouth South: 5.1%; Portsmouth: 4.5%; England: 4.1%.

Solid: Portsmouth North. Dashed: England. Monthly, January 2014 to September 2026. Experimental claimant count (Jobseeker’s Allowance plus Universal Credit claimants required to seek work). Monthly, not seasonally adjusted. Constituency series are published on July 2024 boundaries.

Homes and shared housing

£275,000 median sale price (year ending March 2026, 1,040 sales), up from £50,000 in the year ending March 1996. Portsmouth South: £242,000. Constituency Flats £165,000, terraced £270,000, semi-detached £325,000, detached £522,500. Not adjusted for inflation. ONS ↗

0.7 council HMO register records per 100 homes (316 records; Portsmouth South: 5.7). Records are licence entries, not properties; homes from Census 2021. Shared housing →
96 shared-house change-of-use applications in the council’s HMO register since 2009 (Portsmouth South: 188).
57 brownfield register sites with room for at least 3,935 homes as published. Planning →

Crime

Police.uk mapped records summed over the wards. Locations are approximate; anti-social behaviour is counted separately; rates use Census 2021 residents.

9,479 mapped crimes (excluding anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026: 95 per 1,000 residents (Portsmouth South: 133). The year before: 9,462.
1,050 anti-social behaviour incidents in the same months.

Crime in Portsmouth →

Projects in this constituency

Projects linked to its wards by council declarations or site location. Links are navigation aids, not impact areas.

Portsmouth International Port — cruise and ferry terminal completed
Linear Park and Hilsea Lido in progress
Tipner West proposed
Sea Change shore power completed

City-wide: Football facilities — Levelling Up attribution unconfirmed.

City-wide issues

These are measured for the whole of Portsmouth; no constituency split is published for them.

The cost of living · 10.9% (2024) · Cost of living
Homes and homelessness · 6.9 per 1,000 households (31 March 2026) · Housing
Shared housing (HMOs) · 3,125 records (council combined HMO register, September 2026) · Shared housing
Crime and anti-social behaviour · 114 per 1,000 residents (2025/26) · Crime and ASB
Schools, SEND and attendance · 42.9% (2025) · Schools and SEND
Health and access to care · 31.4% (June 2026) · Health
Poverty, jobs and pay · 4.5% (September 2026) · Poverty and work
Fly-tipping and street cleanliness · 4.4 per 1,000 residents (2024/25) · Environment
Sewage spills and flood defences · 329 counted spills (2025) · Environment
Air pollution and traffic · 4.9% (2024) · Environment
Council services and finances · £22,300,000 (31 March 2027) · Council

In Parliament

Amanda Martin’s own words on shared housing (HMOs), quoted verbatim. Other topics are not yet collected.

25 July 2024 · Spoken contribution ·
“In my constituency of Portsmouth North, there are houses in multiple occupation where family homes have been turned into nine or sometimes 10-bedroom houses.”
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23 October 2024 · Spoken contribution ·
“That allows for a rise in family homes being made into houses in multiple occupation.”
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19 June 2025 · Spoken contribution ·
“I have raised concerns about the rise in the number of houses in multiple occupation in Portsmouth before.”
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18 December 2025 · Spoken contribution ·
“We have removed taxis abandoned for years on Tangier Road in Baffins and we have taken significant action on houses in multiple occupation.”
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22 January 2026 · Spoken contribution ·
“Those delays are actively driving the growth of houses in multiple occupation, damaging Portsmouth’s reputation and holding back action on the housing crisis.”
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All contributions on the Parliament website ↗

Councillors in this constituency

Baffins

Abdul Kadir Liberal Democrat · Lord Mayor
Leonie Oliver Liberal Democrat
Darren Sanders Liberal Democrat · Deputy Leader of the Council; Cabinet Member for Housing and Tackling Homelessness