Broadband in Chichester

The numbers here run behind the country as a whole. Superfast availability covers 90.2% of postcodes against a UK norm of roughly 97 per cent, and the gigabit figure is 57.1%. Put another way, 42.9% of the district's 4,786 postcodes, more than four in ten, have no gigabit option in the data. The slow tail is sizeable as well. 2.9% of postcodes fall below 10Mbps, a higher share than the sub-1% figures some districts manage. Sixteen outward codes make up the area, among them GU27, GU28, GU29, PO9, RH14 and RH20, and with coverage this uneven the outward code is only a rough guide in itself. The gap between the best-case and worst-case connection in Chichester is wider than the averages alone suggest, and the averages already tell a below-par story. For nearly half of postcodes, the fastest tier simply is not on the table yet.

Households weighing a move into the district should read 57.1% gigabit coverage as a coin toss, near enough. A little over half of postcodes can take the top tier and the rest cannot, while 2.9% fall below 10Mbps altogether. That makes address-level research more valuable here than in better-covered areas. Renters and buyers who depend on fast connections, particularly full-time home workers, have more at stake in the postcode lottery across these 16 outward codes than most.