Schools
238 open schools are in scope, including 142 primary and 32 secondary schools. Dulwich College is the nearest published school at 360 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE21 7LR
Dulwich Wood · Southwark · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dulwich Wood
- Local authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Dulwich and West Norwood
- Postcode district
- SE21
- Postcode sector
- SE21 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE21 7LR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1983
- Terminated
- 1 December 1988
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE21
- Postcode sector
- SE21 7
- Latitude
- 51.437598
- Longitude
- -0.082123
- British National Grid easting
- 533,400
- British National Grid northing
- 172,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Southwark · E09000028
- Electoral ward
- Dulwich Wood · E05011101
- Parish or community
- E43000218
- Westminster constituency
- Dulwich and West Norwood · E14001205
- Output area
- E00019873
- Lower layer super output area
- Southwark 033E · E01003951
- Middle layer super output area
- Southwark 033 · E02000839
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 SE21
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 238
- Primary
- 142
- Secondary
- 32
- 360 m
Dulwich College
Other independent school
- 434 m
Dulwich Prep & Senior
Other independent school
- 620 m
Kingsdale Foundation School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,545
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 943
- Anti social behaviour 510
- Vehicle crime 462
- Other theft 313
- Shoplifting 312
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SE21 7 residents
- 3,647
Age bands in SE21 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.4%
661 residents
401 residents
618 residents
968 residents
636 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
84
within 5 km straight-line
THE OLD DAIRY HEALTH CENTRE
19B CROXTED ROAD, WEST DULWICH, LONDON, SE21 8SZ
ODS code G85706
641 m
PAXTON GREEN GROUP PRACTICE
PAXTON GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, 1 ALLEYN PARK, LONDON, SE21 8AU
ODS code G85039
857 m
THE LORDSHIP LANE SURGERY
417 LORDSHIP LANE, EAST DULWICH, LONDON, SE22 8JN
ODS code G85681
1.4 km
THE THREE ZERO SIX MEDICAL CENTRE
306 MEDICAL CENTRE, 306 LORDSHIP LANE, LONDON, SE22 8LY
ODS code G85091
1.5 km
WELLS PARK PRACTICE
1 WELLS PARK ROAD, SYDENHAM, LONDON, SE26 6JQ
ODS code G85114
1.5 km
THE DEERBROOK SURGERY
216 NORWOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE27 9AW
ODS code G85129
1.7 km
KNIGHTS HILL SURGERY SUITE 1
SUITE 1, WEST NORWOOD HEALTH & LC, WEST NORWOOD, LONDON, SE27 0DF
ODS code G85047
1.7 km
ELM LODGE SURGERY
2 BURBAGE ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9HJ
ODS code G85051
1.8 km
BROCKWELL PARK SURGERY
117 NORWOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9AE
ODS code G85137
1.8 km
NORTH WOOD GROUP PRACTICE
CROWN DALE MEDICAL CENTRE, 61 CROWN DALE, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 3NY
ODS code G85022
2.0 km
THE DULWICH MEDICAL CENTRE
163-169 CRYSTAL PALACE ROAD, EAST DULWICH, LONDON, SE22 9EP
ODS code G85651
2.1 km
FOREST HILL GROUP PRACTICE
1 FOREST HILL ROAD, DULWICH, LONDON, SE22 0SQ
ODS code G85001
2.3 km
HERNE HILL GROUP PRACTICE
74 HERNE HILL, HERNE HILL, LONDON, SE24 9QP
ODS code G85016
2.3 km
TESSA JOWELL GP SURGERY
72H EAST DULWICH GROVE, LONDON, SE22 8EY
ODS code G85132
2.4 km
VALE MEDICAL CENTRE
195-197 PERRY VALE, FOREST HILL, LONDON, SE23 2JF
ODS code G85696
2.7 km
UPPER NORWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
130 CHURCH ROAD, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 2NT
ODS code H83005
2.7 km
PALACE ROAD SURGERY
1 PALACE ROAD, STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 3DY
ODS code G85041
2.8 km
THE GARDENS SURGERY
THE GARDENS, LONDON, SE22 9QU
ODS code G85644
2.8 km
VALLEY ROAD SURGERY
139 VALLEY ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2XT
ODS code G85044
2.8 km
MODALITY LEWISHAM (ML)
JENNER HEALTH CENTRE 201-203, STANSTEAD ROAD, FOREST HILL, LONDON, SE23 1HU
ODS code G85004
2.9 km
Showing 20 of 84 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Dulwich College
BCT · Dulwich
- 0.3 miles
Allison Grove
BCT · Dulwich
- 0.3 miles
Sydenham Hill
RSE · Dulwich
- 0.3 miles
Dulwich College
BCT · Dulwich
- 0.3 miles
Sydenham Hill Rail Station
RLY · Dulwich
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southwark 033E, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,800 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
3,545 published events cover 12 months, averaging 295.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 943 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.