Property market
The five-year median is £357,500 from 4 recorded sales in BR1 5JH. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Lewisham is £491,259 in June 2026, up 0.6% year on year.
BR1 5JH
Downham · Lewisham · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BR1 5JH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BR
- Postcode district
- BR1
- Postcode sector
- BR1 5
- Latitude
- 51.430187
- Longitude
- 0.013364
- British National Grid easting
- 540,059
- British National Grid northing
- 172,054
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lewisham · E09000023
- Electoral ward
- Downham · E05013720
- Parish or community
- E43000213
- Westminster constituency
- Lewisham East · E14001331
- Output area
- E00016372
- Lower layer super output area
- Lewisham 037C · E01003238
- Middle layer super output area
- Lewisham 037 · E02006783
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BR1
Property
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 21, Merlin Gardens, Bromley, BR1 5JH | 31 March 2025 | £350,000 |
| 3, Merlin Gardens, Bromley, BR1 5JH | 30 September 2024 | £365,000 |
| 11, Merlin Gardens, Bromley, BR1 5JH | 18 July 2024 | £240,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 152
- Primary
- 94
- Secondary
- 18
- 290 m
Drumbeat School and ASD Service
Community special school
- 308 m
Haberdashers' Knights Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 323 m
Haberdashers' Knights Primary
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,843
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,627
- Vehicle crime 586
- Anti social behaviour 567
- Shoplifting 566
- Other theft 306
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 58
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- BR1 5 residents
- 18,151
34 female, 24 male
Age bands in BR1 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.1%
3,764 residents
2,354 residents
5,093 residents
4,852 residents
2,220 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BR1 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
37
within 5 km
OAKVIEW FAMILY PRACTICE
190 SHROFFOLD ROAD, BROMLEY, BR1 5NJ
ODS code G85716
441 m
ASHDOWN MEDICAL GROUP
7-9 MOORSIDE ROAD, DOWNHAM, BROMLEY, BR1 5EP
ODS code G85057
445 m
ICO HEALTH GROUP
MOORSIDE CLINIC, 7-9 MOORSIDE ROAD, BROMLEY, BR1 5EP
ODS code G85104
445 m
LINKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BROOK LANE SURGERY, 27 BROOK LANE, BROMLEY, BR1 4PX
ODS code G84003
1.2 km
TORRIDON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
80 TORRIDON ROAD, LONDON, SE6 1RB
ODS code G85032
1.5 km
LONDON LANE CLINIC
KINNAIRD HOUSE, 37 LONDON LANE, BROMLEY, BR1 4HB
ODS code G84016
1.7 km
SUNDRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
84 LONDON LANE, BROMLEY, BR1 4HE
ODS code G84629
1.7 km
PARKVIEW SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, 186 BROWNHILL ROAD, CATFORD, LONDON, SE6 1AT
ODS code G85121
2.2 km
HIGHLAND ROAD SURGERY
10 HIGHLAND ROAD, BROMLEY, BR1 4AD
ODS code G84604
2.3 km
NIGHTINGALE SURGERY
LEE HEALTH CENTRE, 2 HANDEN ROAD, LONDON, SE12 8NP
ODS code G85727
2.5 km
WOODLANDS HEALTH CENTRE
4 EDWIN HALL PLACE, LONDON, SE13 6RN
ODS code G85722
2.6 km
SOUTH VIEW PARTNERSHIP
SOUTHVIEW LODGE, SOUTH VIEW, BROMLEY, BR1 3DR
ODS code G84001
2.9 km
NOVUM HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
THE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, HAWSTEAD ROAD, LEWISHAM, LONDON, SE6 4JH
ODS code G85633
3.0 km
ELMSTEAD MEDICAL CLINIC
81 WILLIAM BAREFOOT DRIVE, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 3JD
ODS code G83673
3.2 km
LEWISHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
308 LEE HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SE13 5PJ
ODS code G85023
3.2 km
DYSART SURGERY
1ST FLOOR, RAVENSLEIGH HOUSE, 22 WESTMORELAND PLACE, BROMLEY, BR1 1DS
ODS code G84002
3.4 km
CORNERWAYS SURGERY
50 MANOR ROAD, BECKENHAM, BR3 5LG
ODS code G84018
3.5 km
TRIANGLE GROUP PRACTICE LIMITED
2 MORLEY ROAD, LEWISHAM, LONDON, SE13 6DQ
ODS code G85120
3.5 km
ELTHAM MEDICAL PRACTICE
ELTHAM COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, PASSEY PLACE, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 5DQ
ODS code G83680
3.6 km
ELTHAM PALACE SURGERY
ELTHAM PALACE SURGERY, 30 PASSEY PLACE, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 5DQ
ODS code G83015
3.6 km
Showing 20 of 37 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Northover / Shroffold Road
BCT · Grove Park
- 0.1 miles
Downham Way / Northover
BCT · Grove Park
- 0.1 miles
Northover / Shroffold Road
BCT · Grove Park
- 0.1 miles
Vanoc Gardens
BCT · Grove Park
- 0.1 miles
The Green (BR1)
BCT · Grove Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lewisham 037C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,195 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
152 open schools are in scope, including 94 primary and 18 secondary schools. Drumbeat School and ASD Service is the nearest published school at 290 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
4,843 published events cover 12 months, averaging 403.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,627 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.