Average house price compared with resident median annual pay.
Gosport Wages, Employment and Property Affordability
Resident earnings, employment, unemployment and affordability context for reading Gosport prices and rents.
Jan 2025-Dec 2025 / ASHE 2025
Gosport wages, employment and affordability
Resident earnings and labour-market context help explain local affordability, rental pressure and housing demand.
Resident population
82,921
ONS 2024
Median resident annual pay
£36,946
Gosport
Median resident weekly pay
£711
Full-time employees
Employment rate
71.3%
Aged 16-64
Unemployment rate
4.2%
Economically active
Average monthly rent compared with estimated monthly earnings.
Labour market rates are from the ONS Annual Population Survey profile shown by Nomis. Where the local APS unemployment value is suppressed, the ONS model-based unemployment estimate is used. Earnings are ONS ASHE resident-analysis median full-time employee earnings. Annual pay is annualised from weekly pay for display context.
Incomes Explain Affordability Pressure
Wage and employment data does not predict house prices by itself. It gives demand-side context: how average prices and rents compare with resident earnings, whether employment conditions support demand, and where affordability pressure may limit the buyer or renter pool.
Gosport had a resident population of 82,921 in 2024. That population context matters because it gives a sense of the local labour market base behind household incomes and day-to-day affordability pressures.
According to ONS data shown by Nomis, the employment rate for Gosport was 71.3% in 2025.