Schools
361 open schools are in scope, including 145 primary and 33 secondary schools. Gateway Academy is the nearest published school at 181 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NW8 8NS
Church Street · Westminster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Church Street
- Local authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Queen's Park and Maida Vale
- Postcode district
- NW8
- Postcode sector
- NW8 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NW8 8NS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NW
- Postcode district
- NW8
- Postcode sector
- NW8 8
- Latitude
- 51.525628
- Longitude
- -0.173948
- British National Grid easting
- 526,774
- British National Grid northing
- 182,326
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Westminster · E09000033
- Electoral ward
- Church Street · E05013794
- Parish or community
- E43000236
- Westminster constituency
- Queen's Park and Maida Vale · E14001435
- Output area
- E00175220
- Lower layer super output area
- Westminster 009F · E01033598
- Middle layer super output area
- Westminster 009 · E02000968
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 NW8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 361
- Primary
- 145
- Secondary
- 33
- 181 m
Gateway Academy
Academy converter
- 456 m
Portman Early Childhood Centre
Local authority nursery school
- 475 m
United Colleges Group
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 16,816
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,581
- Other theft 2,550
- Anti social behaviour 2,157
- Theft from the person 1,777
- Shoplifting 1,239
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NW8 8 residents
- 10,579
Age bands in NW8 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 17.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.2%
1,652 residents
1,824 residents
3,061 residents
2,448 residents
1,491 residents
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
141
within 5 km
CROMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE
1 CROMPTON STREET, LONDON, W2 1ND
ODS code E87052
283 m
LITTLE VENICE MEDICAL CENTRE
2 CROMPTON STREET, LONDON, W2 1ND
ODS code E87006
283 m
LISSON GROVE HEALTH CENTRE
GATEFORTH STREET, LONDON, NW8 8EG
ODS code E87011
338 m
PADDINGTON GREEN HEALTH CENTRE
4 PRINCESS LOUISE CLOSE, LONDON, W2 1LQ
ODS code E87008
524 m
WELLINGTON HEALTH CENTRE
16 WELLINGTON ROAD, ST JOHNS WOOD, LONDON, NW8 9SP
ODS code E87754
763 m
ST JOHNS WOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
BRAMPTON HOUSE, 60 GROVE END ROAD, LONDON, NW8 9NH
ODS code E87609
879 m
THIRD FLOOR LANARK ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
165 LANARK ROAD, LONDON, W9 1NZ
ODS code E87663
973 m
THE RANDOLPH SURGERY
235A ELGIN AVENUE, LONDON, W9 1NH
ODS code E87046
1.0 km
MAIDA VALE MEDICAL CENTRE
40 BIDDULPH MANSIONS, ELGIN AVENUE, LONDON, W9 1HT
ODS code E87010
1.1 km
CRAWFORD STREET SURGERY
95-97 CRAWFORD STREET, LONDON, W1H 2HJ
ODS code E87070
1.1 km
THE WESTBOURNE GREEN SURGERY
HEALTH AT THE STOWE, 260 HARROW ROAD, LONDON, W2 5ES
ODS code Y00902
1.3 km
GRAND UNION HEALTH CENTRE
209 HARROW ROAD, PADDINGTON, LONDON, W2 5EH
ODS code E87637
1.3 km
THE GARWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
PICKERING HOUSE, HALLFIELD ESTATE, LONDON, W2 6HF
ODS code E87009
1.4 km
CONNAUGHT SQUARE PRACTICE
41 CONNAUGHT SQUARE, LONDON, W2 2HL
ODS code E87037
1.5 km
ABBEY MEDICAL CENTRE
85 ABBEY ROAD, LONDON, NW8 0AG
ODS code F83019
1.6 km
CAVENDISH HEALTH CENTRE
LOWER GROUND FLOOR, 15 MARYLEBONE ROAD, LONDON, NW1 5JD
ODS code E87745
1.6 km
MARYLEBONE HEALTH CENTRE
17 MARYLEBONE ROAD, LONDON, NW1 5LT
ODS code E87737
1.6 km
NEWTON MEDICAL CENTRE
BAYSWATER CENTRE 14-18, NEWTON ROAD, LONDON, W2 5LT
ODS code E87681
1.6 km
WOODFIELD ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE 7E, WOODFIELD ROAD, LONDON, W9 3XZ
ODS code E87741
1.7 km
LANCASTER GATE MEDICAL CENTRE
LEINSTER TERRACE, LONDON, W2 3ET
ODS code E87722
1.7 km
Showing 20 of 141 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
St John's Wood Road / Lord's Cricket Grd
BCT · Lisson Grove
- 0.1 miles
Frampton Street
BCT · Lisson Grove
- 0.1 miles
Orchardson Street
BCT · Lisson Grove
- 0.2 miles
Frampton Street
BCT · Lisson Grove
- 0.2 miles
St Johns Wood Road
BCT · Maida Vale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Westminster 009F, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,336 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
Recorded crime
16,816 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,401.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,581 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.