Property market
The five-year median is £495,000 from 6 recorded sales in SE16 5AB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Southwark is £582,473 in June 2026, up 2.2% year on year.
SE16 5AB
Surrey Docks · Southwark · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Ward
- Surrey Docks
- Local authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark
- Postcode district
- SE16
- Postcode sector
- SE16 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE16 5AB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2015
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE16
- Postcode sector
- SE16 5
- Latitude
- 51.498493
- Longitude
- -0.035178
- British National Grid easting
- 536,481
- British National Grid northing
- 179,558
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Southwark · E09000028
- Electoral ward
- Surrey Docks · E05011117
- Parish or community
- E43000218
- Westminster constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark · E14001085
- Output area
- E00020447
- Lower layer super output area
- Southwark 008A · E01004056
- Middle layer super output area
- Southwark 008 · E02000814
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
Property
28 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Oscar Court, 700, 26, Rotherhithe Street, London, SE16 5AB | 7 February 2025 | £422,500 |
| Oscar Court, 700, 20, Rotherhithe Street, London, SE16 5AB | 24 April 2024 | £530,000 |
| Oscar Court, 700, 24, Rotherhithe Street, London, SE16 5AB | 27 March 2024 | £470,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 325
- Primary
- 180
- Secondary
- 45
- 393 m
Redriff Primary, City of London Academy
Academy converter
- 482 m
St John's Roman Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 594 m
Alfred Salter Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 10,283
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,746
- Anti social behaviour 1,414
- Other theft 970
- Shoplifting 894
- Theft from the person 857
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 80
- Postcode households
- 30
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- SE16 5 residents
- 6,167
44 female, 36 male
Age bands in SE16 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 49.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.6%
723 residents
549 residents
2,996 residents
1,220 residents
516 residents
This postcode contained 1.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SE16 5 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
83
within 5 km
THE BARKANTINE PRACTICE
BARKANTINE CENTRE, 121 WESTFERRY ROAD, LONDON, E14 8JH
ODS code F84747
707 m
GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WINDLASS PLACE, DEPTFORD, LONDON, SE8 3QH
ODS code G85085
916 m
ALBION STREET GROUP PRACTICE
ALBION STREET HEALTH CENTRE, 87 ALBION STREET, LONDON, SE16 7JX
ODS code G85138
1.1 km
PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
57 HAWKSTONE ROAD, LONDON, SE16 2PE
ODS code G85125
1.2 km
DOCKLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
100 SPINDRIFT AVENUE, ISLE OF DOGS, LONDON, E14 9WU
ODS code F84656
1.3 km
THE LIMEHOUSE PRACTICE
11 GILL STREET, POPLAR, LONDON, E14 8HQ
ODS code F84054
1.5 km
ISLAND HEALTH
145 EAST FERRY ROAD, ISLE OF DOGS, LONDON, E14 3BQ
ODS code F84710
1.5 km
ROSERTON STREET SURGERY
THE ISLAND MEDICAL CENTRE, ROSERTON STREET, LONDON, E14 3PG
ODS code F84647
1.7 km
THE WAPPING GROUP PRACTICE
THE WAPPING HEALTH CENTRE, 22 WAPPING LANE, LONDON, E1W 2RL
ODS code F84079
1.9 km
KINGFISHER MEDICAL CENTRE
3 KINGFISHER SQUARE, STAUNTON STREET, DEPTFORD, LONDON, SE8 5DA
ODS code G85020
1.9 km
THE JUBILEE STREET PRACTICE LTD
368-376 COMMERCIAL ROAD, LONDON, E1 0LS
ODS code F84031
2.0 km
GOUGH WALK PRACTICE
NEWBY PLCE HLTH WELLBEING, 21 NEWBY PLACE, LONDON, E14 0EY
ODS code F84025
2.1 km
CITY SQUARE MEDICAL GROUP
14 DEANCROSS STREET, LONDON, E1 2QA
ODS code F84114
2.2 km
HARFORD HEALTH CENTRE
115 HARFORD STREET, LONDON, E1 4FG
ODS code F84087
2.2 km
THE CHRISP STREET HTH CTR
100 CHRISP STREET, LONDON, E14 6PG
ODS code F84062
2.3 km
BERMONDSEY SPA MEDICAL CENTRE
EYOT HOUSE, 50 OLD JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BL
ODS code G85623
2.4 km
QHS GP CARE HOME SERVICE
50 OLD JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BL
ODS code Y06113
2.4 km
SILVERLOCK MEDICAL CENTRE
2 VERNEY WAY, LONDON, SE16 3HA
ODS code G85087
2.4 km
AMERSHAM VALE TRAINING PRACTICE
SUITE 5, WALDRON HEALTH CENTRE, AMERSHAM VALE, NEW CROSS, LONDON, SE14 6LD
ODS code G85698
2.5 km
NEW CROSS CENTRE (HURLEY GROUP)
SUITE 3, WALDRON HEALTH CENTRE, AMERSHAM VALE, LONDON, SE14 6LD
ODS code G85076
2.5 km
Showing 20 of 83 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
- 0.0 miles
Shipwright Road
BCT · Rotherhithe
- 0.1 miles
Shipwright Road
BCT · Rotherhithe
- 0.1 miles
Downtown Road
BCT · Rotherhithe
- 0.1 miles
Downtown Road
BCT · Rotherhithe
- 0.1 miles
Bryan Road / Surrey Docks Farm
BCT · Rotherhithe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southwark 008A, 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
18,633 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 28
- 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
Schools
325 open schools are in scope, including 180 primary and 45 secondary schools. Redriff Primary, City of London Academy is the nearest published school at 393 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
10,283 published events cover 12 months, averaging 856.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,746 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.