Schools
350 open schools are in scope, including 188 primary and 49 secondary schools. Cavendish School is the nearest published school at 257 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE16 2BD
Rotherhithe · Southwark · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Rotherhithe
- Local authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark
- Postcode district
- SE16
- Postcode sector
- SE16 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE16 2BD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE16
- Postcode sector
- SE16 2
- Latitude
- 51.489799
- Longitude
- -0.053630
- British National Grid easting
- 535,226
- British National Grid northing
- 178,557
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Southwark · E09000028
- Electoral ward
- Rotherhithe · E05011112
- Parish or community
- E43000218
- Westminster constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark · E14001085
- Output area
- E00020087
- Lower layer super output area
- Southwark 011A · E01003986
- Middle layer super output area
- Southwark 011 · E02000817
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 SE16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 350
- Primary
- 188
- Secondary
- 49
- 257 m
Cavendish School
Other independent special school
- 330 m
Rotherhithe Primary School
Academy converter
- 404 m
Galleywall Primary, City of London Academy
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 10,543
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,897
- Anti social behaviour 1,450
- Theft from the person 1,197
- Other theft 861
- Vehicle crime 683
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SE16 2 residents
- 11,236
Age bands in SE16 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 15.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 36.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.3%
1,867 residents
1,677 residents
3,907 residents
2,336 residents
889 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+
- 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
88
within 5 km
PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
57 HAWKSTONE ROAD, LONDON, SE16 2PE
ODS code G85125
372 m
SILVERLOCK MEDICAL CENTRE
2 VERNEY WAY, LONDON, SE16 3HA
ODS code G85087
798 m
ALBION STREET GROUP PRACTICE
ALBION STREET HEALTH CENTRE, 87 ALBION STREET, LONDON, SE16 7JX
ODS code G85138
1.3 km
GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WINDLASS PLACE, DEPTFORD, LONDON, SE8 3QH
ODS code G85085
1.3 km
BERMONDSEY SPA MEDICAL CENTRE
EYOT HOUSE, 50 OLD JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BL
ODS code G85623
1.3 km
QHS GP CARE HOME SERVICE
50 OLD JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BL
ODS code Y06113
1.3 km
THE NEW MILL STREET SURGERY
1 WOLSELEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 2BP
ODS code G85705
1.7 km
THE QRP SURGERY
387 QUEENS ROAD, NEW CROSS GATE, LONDON, SE14 5HD
ODS code G85015
1.8 km
KINGFISHER MEDICAL CENTRE
3 KINGFISHER SQUARE, STAUNTON STREET, DEPTFORD, LONDON, SE8 5DA
ODS code G85020
1.8 km
THE WAPPING GROUP PRACTICE
THE WAPPING HEALTH CENTRE, 22 WAPPING LANE, LONDON, E1W 2RL
ODS code F84079
1.9 km
OLD KENT ROAD SURGERY
182-184 OLD KENT ROAD, LONDON, SE1 5TY
ODS code G85052
1.9 km
THE ACORN & GAUMONT HOUSE SURGERY
153 PECKHAM HIGH STREET, PECKHAM, LONDON, SE15 5SL
ODS code G85006
2.0 km
AMERSHAM VALE TRAINING PRACTICE
SUITE 5, WALDRON HEALTH CENTRE, AMERSHAM VALE, NEW CROSS, LONDON, SE14 6LD
ODS code G85698
2.1 km
NEW CROSS CENTRE (HURLEY GROUP)
SUITE 3, WALDRON HEALTH CENTRE, AMERSHAM VALE, LONDON, SE14 6LD
ODS code G85076
2.1 km
CLIFTON RISE FAMILY PRACTICE
CLIFTON RISE FAMILY PRACT, WALDRON HLTH/CTR(SUITE 2), LONDON, SE8 4BG
ODS code G85026
2.2 km
ST. KATHERINE'S DOCK PRACTICE
FLAT 12, NIGHTINGALE HOUSE, 50 THOMAS MORE STREET, LONDON, E1W 1UA
ODS code F84731
2.2 km
EAST STREET
HAROLD MOODY HEALTH CENTRE, THURLOW STREET, LONDON, SE17 2GN
ODS code G85721
2.3 km
DOCKLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
100 SPINDRIFT AVENUE, ISLE OF DOGS, LONDON, E14 9WU
ODS code F84656
2.3 km
THE LISTER PRACTICE
101 PECKHAM ROAD, LONDON, SE15 5LJ
ODS code G85715
2.3 km
THE LISTER PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
101 PECKHAM ROAD, LONDON, SE15 5LJ
ODS code G85134
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 88 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Corbetts Lane
BCT · Surrey Quays
- 0.1 miles
Corbetts Lane
BCT · Surrey Quays
- 0.1 miles
Beamish House
BCT · Bermondsey
- 0.1 miles
South Bermondsey Station
RSE · Bermondsey
- 0.1 miles
South Bermondsey Rail Station
RLY · Bermondsey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southwark 011A, 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
5,635 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- 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
10,543 published events cover 12 months, averaging 878.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,897 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.