Schools
131 open schools are in scope, including 85 primary and 17 secondary schools. De Lucy Primary School is the nearest published school at 59 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE2 9BU
Abbey Wood · Greenwich · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Abbey Wood
- Local authority
- Greenwich
- Constituency
- Erith and Thamesmead
- Postcode district
- SE2
- Postcode sector
- SE2 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE2 9BU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE2
- Postcode sector
- SE2 9
- Latitude
- 51.496313
- Longitude
- 0.111955
- British National Grid easting
- 546,700
- British National Grid northing
- 179,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Greenwich · E09000011
- Electoral ward
- Abbey Wood · E05014072
- Parish or community
- E43000201
- Westminster constituency
- Erith and Thamesmead · E14001229
- Output area
- E00007825
- Lower layer super output area
- Greenwich 003B · E01001576
- Middle layer super output area
- Greenwich 003 · E02000315
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 SE2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 131
- Primary
- 85
- Secondary
- 17
- 59 m
De Lucy Primary School
Community school
- 259 m
Pulse and Water College
Other independent school
- 490 m
Boxgrove Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,439
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,858
- Anti social behaviour 720
- Vehicle crime 608
- Drugs 374
- Other theft 372
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SE2 9 residents
- 15,066
Age bands in SE2 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.6%
3,560 residents
1,999 residents
4,370 residents
3,775 residents
1,459 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
38
within 5 km straight-line
ABBEY WOOD SURGERY
9 GODSTOW ROAD, ABBEY WOOD, LONDON, SE2 9AT
ODS code G83031
355 m
LAKESIDE MEDICAL
LAKESIDE HEALTH CENTRE, YARNTON WAY, LONDON, SE2 9LH
ODS code G83018
731 m
ABBEYSLADE PMS (DR CHAND)
111 BASILDON ROAD, ABBEY WOOD, LONDON, SE2 0ER
ODS code G83631
997 m
GALLIONS REACH HEALTH CENTRE
BENTHAM ROAD, LONDON, SE28 8BE
ODS code G83012
1.1 km
BANNOCKBURN SURGERY
20-22 BANNOCKBURN ROAD, LONDON, SE18 1ES
ODS code G83654
1.5 km
THAMESMEAD HEALTH CENTRE
4-5 THAMES REACH, LONDON, SE28 0NY
ODS code Y02974
1.5 km
PLUMSTEAD AND WICKHAM LANE SURGERY
141 PLUMSTEAD HIGH STREET, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 1SE
ODS code G83647
1.7 km
PLUMSTEAD H/C PMS
TEWSON ROAD, LONDON, SE18 1BB
ODS code G83019
1.8 km
CONWAY PMS
44 CONWAY ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 1AH
ODS code G83633
2.0 km
GLYNDON PMS
GLYNDON MEDICAL CENTRE, 188 ANN STREET, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 7LU
ODS code G83060
2.5 km
WAVERLEY PMS
37 WAVERLEY CRESCENT, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 7QU
ODS code G83635
2.5 km
BEXLEY MEDICAL GROUP
171 KING HAROLDS WAY, BEXLEYHEATH, DA7 5RB
ODS code G83053
2.6 km
ROYAL ARSENAL MEDICAL CENTRE
21 ARSENAL WAY, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 6TE
ODS code G83016
2.7 km
BELVEDERE MEDICAL CENTRE
15 ALBERT ROAD, BELVEDERE, DA17 5LQ
ODS code G83052
2.7 km
ST MARKS PMS
24 WROTTESLEY ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 3EP
ODS code G83039
3.2 km
DR DAVIES & PARTNER
55 LITTLE HEATH ROAD, BEXLEYHEATH, DA7 5HL
ODS code G83033
3.3 km
BEXLEY GROUP PRACTICE
76-78 UPPER WICKHAM LANE, WELLING, DA16 3HQ
ODS code G83028
3.4 km
VALENTINE HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
25-27 JOHN WILSON STREET, WOOLWICH, LONDON, SE18 6PZ
ODS code G83067
3.5 km
AURORA MEDCARE
THAMES VIEW HEALTH CENTRE, BASTABLE AVENUE, BARKING, IG11 0LG
ODS code F82042
3.6 km
ROYAL DOCKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
ROYAL DOCKS MEDICAL CENTRE, 21 EAST HAM MANOR WAY, BECKTON, LONDON, E6 5NA
ODS code F84717
3.7 km
Showing 20 of 38 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Abbey Wood Pumping Station
BCT · Thamesmead
- 0.1 miles
Finchale Road / Eynsham Drive
BCT · Thamesmead
- 0.1 miles
Abbey Wood Pumping Station
BCT · Thamesmead
- 0.1 miles
Finchale Road / Eynsham Drive
BCT · Thamesmead
- 0.1 miles
Peterstone Road
BCT · Thamesmead
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Greenwich 003B, 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
6,693 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
5,439 published events cover 12 months, averaging 453.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,858 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.