Property market
The five-year median is £571,500 from 2 recorded sales in SE16 5RE. 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 5RE
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 5RE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE16
- Postcode sector
- SE16 5
- Latitude
- 51.505327
- Longitude
- -0.045317
- British National Grid easting
- 535,757
- British National Grid northing
- 180,299
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
- E00020441
- Lower layer super output area
- Southwark 001C · E01004053
- Middle layer super output area
- Southwark 001 · E02000807
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
30 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Watermead Lodge, Flat 7, Princes Riverside Road, London, SE16 5RE | 13 January 2023 | £358,000 |
| Watermead Lodge, Flat 1, Princes Riverside Road, London, SE16 5RE | 15 July 2022 | £785,000 |
| Watermead Lodge, Flat 7, Princes Riverside Road, London, SE16 5RE | 18 May 2018 | £350,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 351
- Primary
- 190
- Secondary
- 52
- 216 m
Peter Hills with St Mary's and St Paul's CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 392 m
Bacon's College
Academy sponsor led
- 620 m
St John's Roman Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 11,788
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,243
- Anti social behaviour 1,731
- Other theft 1,011
- Theft from the person 991
- Shoplifting 771
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 15
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- SE16 5 residents
- 6,167
8 female, 7 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 0.2% 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
101
within 5 km
ALBION STREET GROUP PRACTICE
ALBION STREET HEALTH CENTRE, 87 ALBION STREET, LONDON, SE16 7JX
ODS code G85138
605 m
THE WAPPING GROUP PRACTICE
THE WAPPING HEALTH CENTRE, 22 WAPPING LANE, LONDON, E1W 2RL
ODS code F84079
949 m
THE JUBILEE STREET PRACTICE LTD
368-376 COMMERCIAL ROAD, LONDON, E1 0LS
ODS code F84031
989 m
CITY SQUARE MEDICAL GROUP
14 DEANCROSS STREET, LONDON, E1 2QA
ODS code F84114
1.2 km
THE LIMEHOUSE PRACTICE
11 GILL STREET, POPLAR, LONDON, E14 8HQ
ODS code F84054
1.3 km
THE BARKANTINE PRACTICE
BARKANTINE CENTRE, 121 WESTFERRY ROAD, LONDON, E14 8JH
ODS code F84747
1.5 km
PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
57 HAWKSTONE ROAD, LONDON, SE16 2PE
ODS code G85125
1.5 km
HARFORD HEALTH CENTRE
115 HARFORD STREET, LONDON, E1 4FG
ODS code F84087
1.5 km
ST. KATHERINE'S DOCK PRACTICE
FLAT 12, NIGHTINGALE HOUSE, 50 THOMAS MORE STREET, LONDON, E1W 1UA
ODS code F84731
1.6 km
GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WINDLASS PLACE, DEPTFORD, LONDON, SE8 3QH
ODS code G85085
1.8 km
ALBION HEALTH CENTRE
333 WHITECHAPEL ROAD, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON, E1 1BU
ODS code F84012
1.8 km
GOODMAN'S FIELD HEALTH CENTRE
11 STABLE WALK, LONDON, E1 8ZF
ODS code F84039
1.8 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
THE SPITALFIELDS PRACTICE
20 OLD MONTAGUE STREET, LONDON, E1 5PB
ODS code F84081
2.2 km
XX PLACE HEALTH CENTRE
BANCROFT ROAD, LONDON, E1 4DG
ODS code F84122
2.2 km
DOCKLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
100 SPINDRIFT AVENUE, ISLE OF DOGS, LONDON, E14 9WU
ODS code F84656
2.3 km
HEALTH E1
9-11 BRICK LANE, LONDON, E1 6PU
ODS code F84733
2.3 km
GOUGH WALK PRACTICE
NEWBY PLCE HLTH WELLBEING, 21 NEWBY PLACE, LONDON, E14 0EY
ODS code F84025
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 101 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
Edinburgh Court
BCT · Rotherhithe
- 0.1 miles
Smith Close
BCT · Rotherhithe
- 0.1 miles
Smith Close
BCT · Rotherhithe
- 0.1 miles
King & Queen Wharf
BCT · Rotherhithe
- 0.1 miles
Peter Hills School
BCT · Rotherhithe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southwark 001C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,419 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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
- 0
- 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
351 open schools are in scope, including 190 primary and 52 secondary schools. Peter Hills with St Mary's and St Paul's CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 216 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
11,788 published events cover 12 months, averaging 982.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,243 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.