Schools
340 open schools are in scope, including 186 primary and 51 secondary schools. Bacon's College is the nearest published school at 146 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE16 6AX
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE16 6AX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE16
- Postcode sector
- SE16 6
- Latitude
- 51.502318
- Longitude
- -0.040172
- British National Grid easting
- 536,123
- British National Grid northing
- 179,974
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
- E00020421
- Lower layer super output area
- Southwark 001E · E01004055
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 340
- Primary
- 186
- Secondary
- 51
- 146 m
Bacon's College
Academy sponsor led
- 242 m
St John's Roman Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 249 m
Redriff Primary, City of London Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 11,709
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,269
- Anti social behaviour 1,650
- Other theft 1,018
- Shoplifting 946
- Theft from the person 934
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SE16 6 residents
- 4,722
Age bands in SE16 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 48.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 19.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 7%
801 residents
552 residents
2,621 residents
1,049 residents
380 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.
GP practices
92
within 5 km
ALBION STREET GROUP PRACTICE
ALBION STREET HEALTH CENTRE, 87 ALBION STREET, LONDON, SE16 7JX
ODS code G85138
740 m
THE BARKANTINE PRACTICE
BARKANTINE CENTRE, 121 WESTFERRY ROAD, LONDON, E14 8JH
ODS code F84747
1.0 km
THE LIMEHOUSE PRACTICE
11 GILL STREET, POPLAR, LONDON, E14 8HQ
ODS code F84054
1.3 km
PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
57 HAWKSTONE ROAD, LONDON, SE16 2PE
ODS code G85125
1.3 km
THE WAPPING GROUP PRACTICE
THE WAPPING HEALTH CENTRE, 22 WAPPING LANE, LONDON, E1W 2RL
ODS code F84079
1.4 km
GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WINDLASS PLACE, DEPTFORD, LONDON, SE8 3QH
ODS code G85085
1.4 km
THE JUBILEE STREET PRACTICE LTD
368-376 COMMERCIAL ROAD, LONDON, E1 0LS
ODS code F84031
1.4 km
CITY SQUARE MEDICAL GROUP
14 DEANCROSS STREET, LONDON, E1 2QA
ODS code F84114
1.6 km
HARFORD HEALTH CENTRE
115 HARFORD STREET, LONDON, E1 4FG
ODS code F84087
1.8 km
DOCKLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
100 SPINDRIFT AVENUE, ISLE OF DOGS, LONDON, E14 9WU
ODS code F84656
1.8 km
ISLAND HEALTH
145 EAST FERRY ROAD, ISLE OF DOGS, LONDON, E14 3BQ
ODS code F84710
2.0 km
ST. KATHERINE'S DOCK PRACTICE
FLAT 12, NIGHTINGALE HOUSE, 50 THOMAS MORE STREET, LONDON, E1W 1UA
ODS code F84731
2.0 km
BERMONDSEY SPA MEDICAL CENTRE
EYOT HOUSE, 50 OLD JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BL
ODS code G85623
2.1 km
QHS GP CARE HOME SERVICE
50 OLD JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BL
ODS code Y06113
2.1 km
GOUGH WALK PRACTICE
NEWBY PLCE HLTH WELLBEING, 21 NEWBY PLACE, LONDON, E14 0EY
ODS code F84025
2.1 km
ROSERTON STREET SURGERY
THE ISLAND MEDICAL CENTRE, ROSERTON STREET, LONDON, E14 3PG
ODS code F84647
2.1 km
THE NEW MILL STREET SURGERY
1 WOLSELEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 2BP
ODS code G85705
2.2 km
THE CHRISP STREET HTH CTR
100 CHRISP STREET, LONDON, E14 6PG
ODS code F84062
2.2 km
ALBION HEALTH CENTRE
333 WHITECHAPEL ROAD, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON, E1 1BU
ODS code F84012
2.3 km
GOODMAN'S FIELD HEALTH CENTRE
11 STABLE WALK, LONDON, E1 8ZF
ODS code F84039
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 92 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
- 0.2 miles
Russia Dock Road
BCT · Rotherhithe
- 0.2 miles
Russia Dock Road
BCT · Rotherhithe
- 0.2 miles
Bywater Place
BCT · Rotherhithe
- 0.2 miles
Bywater Place
BCT · Rotherhithe
- 0.2 miles
Peter Hills School
BCT · Rotherhithe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southwark 001E, 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
7,378 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
Recorded crime
11,709 published events cover 12 months, averaging 975.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,269 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.