Schools
379 open schools are in scope, including 192 primary and 51 secondary schools. Ark Globe Academy is the nearest published school at 369 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE1 6QA
Chaucer · Southwark · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Chaucer
- Local authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark
- Postcode district
- SE1
- Postcode sector
- SE1 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE1 6QA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE1
- Postcode sector
- SE1 6
- Latitude
- 51.497168
- Longitude
- -0.095472
- British National Grid easting
- 532,300
- British National Grid northing
- 179,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Southwark · E09000028
- Electoral ward
- Chaucer · E05011098
- Parish or community
- E43000218
- Westminster constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark · E14001085
- Output area
- E00019819
- Lower layer super output area
- Southwark 009B · E01003937
- Middle layer super output area
- Southwark 009 · E02000815
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 SE1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 379
- Primary
- 192
- Secondary
- 51
- 369 m
Ark Globe Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 397 m
Imperial Oak School
Other independent special school
- 441 m
London Christian School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 25,600
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Theft from the person 5,892
- Violence and sexual offences 4,907
- Other theft 3,785
- Anti social behaviour 2,479
- Shoplifting 1,866
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SE1 6 residents
- 7,855
Age bands in SE1 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 19.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 42.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 5.5%
924 residents
1,407 residents
3,135 residents
1,488 residents
403 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.
GP practices
121
within 5 km straight-line
FALMOUTH ROAD GROUP PRACTICE
78 FALMOUTH ROAD, LONDON, SE1 4JW
ODS code G85029
161 m
NEXUS HEALTH GROUP
PRINCESS STREET GROUP PRACTICE, 2 PRINCESS STREET, LONDON, SE1 6JP
ODS code G85034
481 m
HURLEY AND RIVERSIDE PRACTICES
EBENEZER HOUSE, KENNINGTON LANE, LONDON, SE11 4HJ
ODS code G85053
1.1 km
PENROSE SURGERY
33 PENROSE STREET, LONDON, SE17 3DW
ODS code G85084
1.1 km
BLACKFRIARS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BLACKFRIARS MEDICAL PRACT, 45 COLOMBO STREET, LONDON, SE1 8EE
ODS code G85642
1.2 km
EAST STREET
HAROLD MOODY HEALTH CENTRE, THURLOW STREET, LONDON, SE17 2GN
ODS code G85721
1.2 km
OLD KENT ROAD SURGERY
182-184 OLD KENT ROAD, LONDON, SE1 5TY
ODS code G85052
1.2 km
THE VILLA STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
47 VILLA STREET, LONDON, SE17 2EL
ODS code G85632
1.3 km
WATERLOO HEALTH CENTRE
114-118 LOWER MARSH, WATERLOO, LONDON, SE1 7AE
ODS code G85136
1.3 km
THE NEW MILL STREET SURGERY
1 WOLSELEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 2BP
ODS code G85705
1.7 km
GRAY'S INN MEDICAL GROUP VAUXHALL
8 JONATHAN STREET, KENNINGTON, LONDON, SE11 5NH
ODS code G85102
1.8 km
BERMONDSEY SPA MEDICAL CENTRE
EYOT HOUSE, 50 OLD JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BL
ODS code G85623
1.8 km
QHS GP CARE HOME SERVICE
50 OLD JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BL
ODS code Y06113
1.8 km
ST. KATHERINE'S DOCK PRACTICE
FLAT 12, NIGHTINGALE HOUSE, 50 THOMAS MORE STREET, LONDON, E1W 1UA
ODS code F84731
2.2 km
KINGS COLLEGE HEALTH CENTRE
3RD FLOOR, BUSH HOUSE, SOUTH EAST WING, 300 STRAND, LONDON, WC2B 4PJ
ODS code E87768
2.3 km
ST PHILIPS MEDICAL CENTRE
TOWER 3, 2ND FLOOR CLEMENTS INN, LONDON, WC2A 2AZ
ODS code F83672
2.3 km
VASSALL MEDICAL CENTRE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 89 VASSALL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6NA
ODS code G85073
2.4 km
PARKSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
52 CAMBERWELL GREEN, LONDON, SE5 7AQ
ODS code G85030
2.4 km
MILLBANK MEDICAL CENTRE
MEDICAL CENTRE BUILDING, 20 PAGE STREET, LONDON, SW1P 4EN
ODS code E87739
2.4 km
THE NEAMAN PRACTICE
15 HALF MOON COURT, LONDON, EC1A 7HF
ODS code F84640
2.4 km
Showing 20 of 121 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Inner London Crown Court
BCT · The Borough
- 0.1 miles
Inner London Crown Court
BCT · The Borough
- 0.2 miles
Elephant & Castle / Newington Causeway
BCT · Elephant & Castle
- 0.2 miles
Elephant & Castle / New Kent Road
BCT · Elephant & Castle
- 0.2 miles
Elephant & Castle / New Kent Road
BCT · Elephant & Castle
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southwark 009B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,363 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
25,600 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2,133.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Theft from the person with 5,892 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.