Schools
377 open schools are in scope, including 190 primary and 50 secondary schools. Imperial Oak School is the nearest published school at 244 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE1 6RG
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 6RG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE1
- Postcode sector
- SE1 6
- Latitude
- 51.494831
- Longitude
- -0.096635
- British National Grid easting
- 532,226
- British National Grid northing
- 179,038
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
- E00167999
- Lower layer super output area
- Southwark 009G · E01033873
- 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
- 377
- Primary
- 190
- Secondary
- 50
- 244 m
Imperial Oak School
Other independent special school
- 321 m
London College of Printing & Distributive Trades
Miscellaneous
- 339 m
Victory Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 26,039
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Theft from the person 5,835
- Violence and sexual offences 5,299
- Other theft 3,609
- Anti social behaviour 2,564
- Shoplifting 1,833
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 37
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- SE1 6 residents
- 7,855
17 female, 20 male
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
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SE1 6 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
119
within 5 km
FALMOUTH ROAD GROUP PRACTICE
78 FALMOUTH ROAD, LONDON, SE1 4JW
ODS code G85029
314 m
NEXUS HEALTH GROUP
PRINCESS STREET GROUP PRACTICE, 2 PRINCESS STREET, LONDON, SE1 6JP
ODS code G85034
378 m
PENROSE SURGERY
33 PENROSE STREET, LONDON, SE17 3DW
ODS code G85084
825 m
HURLEY AND RIVERSIDE PRACTICES
EBENEZER HOUSE, KENNINGTON LANE, LONDON, SE11 4HJ
ODS code G85053
840 m
EAST STREET
HAROLD MOODY HEALTH CENTRE, THURLOW STREET, LONDON, SE17 2GN
ODS code G85721
1.1 km
THE VILLA STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
47 VILLA STREET, LONDON, SE17 2EL
ODS code G85632
1.1 km
OLD KENT ROAD SURGERY
182-184 OLD KENT ROAD, LONDON, SE1 5TY
ODS code G85052
1.2 km
BLACKFRIARS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BLACKFRIARS MEDICAL PRACT, 45 COLOMBO STREET, LONDON, SE1 8EE
ODS code G85642
1.3 km
WATERLOO HEALTH CENTRE
114-118 LOWER MARSH, WATERLOO, LONDON, SE1 7AE
ODS code G85136
1.3 km
GRAY'S INN MEDICAL GROUP VAUXHALL
8 JONATHAN STREET, KENNINGTON, LONDON, SE11 5NH
ODS code G85102
1.6 km
THE NEW MILL STREET SURGERY
1 WOLSELEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 2BP
ODS code G85705
1.9 km
BERMONDSEY SPA MEDICAL CENTRE
EYOT HOUSE, 50 OLD JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BL
ODS code G85623
1.9 km
QHS GP CARE HOME SERVICE
50 OLD JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BL
ODS code Y06113
1.9 km
VASSALL MEDICAL CENTRE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 89 VASSALL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6NA
ODS code G85073
2.1 km
PARKSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
52 CAMBERWELL GREEN, LONDON, SE5 7AQ
ODS code G85030
2.1 km
AKERMAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85695
2.2 km
FIVEWAYS PCN EA HUB
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code Y05161
2.2 km
LAMBETH WALK GROUP PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85054
2.2 km
MINET GREEN HEALTH PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85135
2.2 km
CAMBERWELL GREEN SURGERY
17 CAMBERWELL GREEN, LONDON, SE5 7AF
ODS code G85013
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 119 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
Elephant & Castle / New Kent Road
BCT · Elephant & Castle
- 0.1 miles
Elephant & Castle / New Kent Road
BCT · Elephant & Castle
- 0.1 miles
Elephant Road / Elephant & Castle
BCT · Elephant & Castle
- 0.1 miles
Elephant & Castle / New Kent Road
BCT · Elephant & Castle
- 0.1 miles
Elephant & Castle Rail Station
RSE · Elephant & Castle
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southwark 009G, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,750 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 1 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.
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
- 4
- 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
26,039 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2,169.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Theft from the person with 5,835 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.