Schools
383 open schools are in scope, including 178 primary and 45 secondary schools. King's College London is the nearest published school at 80 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE1 8TY
Waterloo & South Bank · Lambeth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green
- Postcode district
- SE1
- Postcode sector
- SE1 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE1 8TY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE1
- Postcode sector
- SE1 8
- Latitude
- 51.504486
- Longitude
- -0.111997
- British National Grid easting
- 531,132
- British National Grid northing
- 180,084
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lambeth · E09000022
- Electoral ward
- Waterloo & South Bank · E05014118
- Parish or community
- E43000212
- Westminster constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green · E14001559
- Output area
- E00171533
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 036C · E01003016
- Middle layer super output area
- Lambeth 036 · E02006801
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
- 383
- Primary
- 178
- Secondary
- 45
- 80 m
King's College London
Higher education institutions
- 338 m
London Nautical, City of London Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 422 m
Oasis Academy South Bank Primary
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 37,096
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Theft from the person 9,935
- Other theft 7,691
- Violence and sexual offences 6,327
- Shoplifting 2,844
- Anti social behaviour 2,326
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SE1 8 residents
- 4,332
Age bands in SE1 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 8.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 27.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.3%
419 residents
1,364 residents
1,646 residents
1,020 residents
513 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+
- 0%
- 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
- 0%
- 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
121
within 5 km
BLACKFRIARS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BLACKFRIARS MEDICAL PRACT, 45 COLOMBO STREET, LONDON, SE1 8EE
ODS code G85642
445 m
WATERLOO HEALTH CENTRE
114-118 LOWER MARSH, WATERLOO, LONDON, SE1 7AE
ODS code G85136
458 m
KINGS COLLEGE HEALTH CENTRE
3RD FLOOR, BUSH HOUSE, SOUTH EAST WING, 300 STRAND, LONDON, WC2B 4PJ
ODS code E87768
955 m
ST PHILIPS MEDICAL CENTRE
TOWER 3, 2ND FLOOR CLEMENTS INN, LONDON, WC2A 2AZ
ODS code F83672
1.1 km
NEXUS HEALTH GROUP
PRINCESS STREET GROUP PRACTICE, 2 PRINCESS STREET, LONDON, SE1 6JP
ODS code G85034
1.2 km
COVENT GARDEN MEDICAL CENTRE
47 SHORTS GARDENS, LONDON, WC2H 9AA
ODS code E87045
1.5 km
FALMOUTH ROAD GROUP PRACTICE
78 FALMOUTH ROAD, LONDON, SE1 4JW
ODS code G85029
1.6 km
HURLEY AND RIVERSIDE PRACTICES
EBENEZER HOUSE, KENNINGTON LANE, LONDON, SE11 4HJ
ODS code G85053
1.6 km
THE DR HICKEY SURGERY FOR THE HOMELESS
3-7 ARNEWAY STREET, LONDON, SW1P 2BG
ODS code E87740
1.7 km
GRAY'S INN MEDICAL GROUP VAUXHALL
8 JONATHAN STREET, KENNINGTON, LONDON, SE11 5NH
ODS code G85102
1.7 km
MILLBANK MEDICAL CENTRE
MEDICAL CENTRE BUILDING, 20 PAGE STREET, LONDON, SW1P 4EN
ODS code E87739
1.7 km
GREAT CHAPEL STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
4TH FLOOR, SOHO CENTRE FOR HEALTH, 1 FRITH STREET, LONDON, W1D 3HZ
ODS code E87772
1.8 km
SOHO CENTRE FOR HEALTH AND CARE
1ST FLOOR, 30 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W1D 3QS
ODS code E87069
1.8 km
SOHO SQUARE GENERAL PRACTICE
1ST FLOOR, 1 FRITH STREET, LONDON, W1D 3HZ
ODS code E87714
1.8 km
MUSEUM PRACTICE
58 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON, WC1B 3BA
ODS code F83061
1.8 km
THE NEAMAN PRACTICE
15 HALF MOON COURT, LONDON, EC1A 7HF
ODS code F84640
1.9 km
HOLBORN MEDICAL CENTRE
64-66 LAMBS CONDUIT STREET, LONDON, WC1N 3NA
ODS code F83058
2.0 km
GRAY'S INN MEDICAL GROUP CHANCERY LANE
77 GRAY'S INN ROAD, LONDON, WC1X 8TS
ODS code F83042
2.0 km
GOWER STREET PRACTICE
20 GOWER STREET, LONDON, WC1E 6DP
ODS code F83005
2.1 km
PENROSE SURGERY
33 PENROSE STREET, LONDON, SE17 3DW
ODS code G85084
2.1 km
Showing 20 of 121 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
- 0.0 miles
Waterloo Station / Tenison Way
BCT · Waterloo
- 0.1 miles
Waterloo Road (SE1)
BCT · Waterloo
- 0.1 miles
Waterloo Station/Mepham Street
BCT · Waterloo
- 0.1 miles
Waterloo Station / Waterloo Road
BCT · Waterloo
- 0.1 miles
Waterloo Station/Upper Taxi Rd
BCT · Waterloo
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 036C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,431 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
- 2
- 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
37,096 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3,091.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Theft from the person with 9,935 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.