Schools
354 open schools are in scope, including 190 primary and 51 secondary schools. Bacon's College is the nearest published school at 48 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE16 6BY
Rotherhithe · Southwark · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- 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 6BY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE16
- Postcode sector
- SE16 6
- Latitude
- 51.502543
- Longitude
- -0.042900
- British National Grid easting
- 535,933
- British National Grid northing
- 179,994
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
- E00020419
- 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
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 17, Hull Close, London, SE16 6BY | 16 August 2019 | £255,000 |
| 9, Hull Close, London, SE16 6BY | 31 May 2018 | £745,000 |
| 7, Hull Close, London, SE16 6BY | 22 November 2012 | £255,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 354
- Primary
- 190
- Secondary
- 51
- 48 m
Bacon's College
Academy sponsor led
- 268 m
St John's Roman Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 330 m
Alfred Salter Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 11,346
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,156
- Anti social behaviour 1,634
- Other theft 1,029
- Theft from the person 1,025
- Shoplifting 758
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 30
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- SE16 6 residents
- 4,722
15 female, 15 male
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
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SE16 6 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
92
within 5 km
ALBION STREET GROUP PRACTICE
ALBION STREET HEALTH CENTRE, 87 ALBION STREET, LONDON, SE16 7JX
ODS code G85138
562 m
THE WAPPING GROUP PRACTICE
THE WAPPING HEALTH CENTRE, 22 WAPPING LANE, LONDON, E1W 2RL
ODS code F84079
1.2 km
THE BARKANTINE PRACTICE
BARKANTINE CENTRE, 121 WESTFERRY ROAD, LONDON, E14 8JH
ODS code F84747
1.2 km
PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
57 HAWKSTONE ROAD, LONDON, SE16 2PE
ODS code G85125
1.3 km
THE JUBILEE STREET PRACTICE LTD
368-376 COMMERCIAL ROAD, LONDON, E1 0LS
ODS code F84031
1.3 km
THE LIMEHOUSE PRACTICE
11 GILL STREET, POPLAR, LONDON, E14 8HQ
ODS code F84054
1.4 km
GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
WINDLASS PLACE, DEPTFORD, LONDON, SE8 3QH
ODS code G85085
1.5 km
CITY SQUARE MEDICAL GROUP
14 DEANCROSS STREET, LONDON, E1 2QA
ODS code F84114
1.5 km
HARFORD HEALTH CENTRE
115 HARFORD STREET, LONDON, E1 4FG
ODS code F84087
1.8 km
ST. KATHERINE'S DOCK PRACTICE
FLAT 12, NIGHTINGALE HOUSE, 50 THOMAS MORE STREET, LONDON, E1W 1UA
ODS code F84731
1.8 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 NEW MILL STREET SURGERY
1 WOLSELEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 2BP
ODS code G85705
2.0 km
DOCKLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
100 SPINDRIFT AVENUE, ISLE OF DOGS, LONDON, E14 9WU
ODS code F84656
2.0 km
GOODMAN'S FIELD HEALTH CENTRE
11 STABLE WALK, LONDON, E1 8ZF
ODS code F84039
2.2 km
ISLAND HEALTH
145 EAST FERRY ROAD, ISLE OF DOGS, LONDON, E14 3BQ
ODS code F84710
2.2 km
ALBION HEALTH CENTRE
333 WHITECHAPEL ROAD, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON, E1 1BU
ODS code F84012
2.2 km
GOUGH WALK PRACTICE
NEWBY PLCE HLTH WELLBEING, 21 NEWBY PLACE, LONDON, E14 0EY
ODS code F84025
2.3 km
ROSERTON STREET SURGERY
THE ISLAND MEDICAL CENTRE, ROSERTON STREET, LONDON, E14 3PG
ODS code F84647
2.3 km
SILVERLOCK MEDICAL CENTRE
2 VERNEY WAY, LONDON, SE16 3HA
ODS code G85087
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
Smith Close
BCT · Rotherhithe
- 0.2 miles
Smith Close
BCT · Rotherhithe
- 0.2 miles
Peter Hills School
BCT · Rotherhithe
- 0.2 miles
Peter Hills School
BCT · Rotherhithe
- 0.2 miles
Edinburgh Court
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
Recorded crime
11,346 published events cover 12 months, averaging 945.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,156 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.