Hilsea is home to one of Portsmouth's main sports and leisure facilities – the Mountbatten centre.

This area is now a residential estate and is marked by a pub and hotel, still known locally as the Green Farm, although its external sign bears only the name of the Toby Carvery chain which now owns it.

[6] The North of the district composes the Hilsea Lines, former defensive fortifications that are now a nature reserve, known locally as Fox's Forest.

In the 1930s, the Western end of the Lines moat became known as the Hilsea Lagoon[7] and in the mid-1930s work was done on the banks and it was turned into a boating lake.

[8][9] In the same period, the land around the Eastern end of the boating lake was converted into Hilsea Bastion Gardens.

[19] The News Centre was purchased by First bus in 2023 who applied for planning permission to demolish in July the same year.

In addition, a small halt called Hilsea railway station serves the area.