Schools
240 open schools are in scope, including 142 primary and 30 secondary schools. Elm Wood School is the nearest published school at 361 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE21 8EL
West Dulwich · Lambeth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- West Dulwich
- Local authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Dulwich and West Norwood
- Postcode district
- SE21
- Postcode sector
- SE21 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE21 8EL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE21
- Postcode sector
- SE21 8
- Latitude
- 51.433339
- Longitude
- -0.096689
- British National Grid easting
- 532,400
- British National Grid northing
- 172,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lambeth · E09000022
- Electoral ward
- West Dulwich · E05014119
- Parish or community
- E43000212
- Westminster constituency
- Dulwich and West Norwood · E14001205
- Output area
- E00015438
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 028B · E01003066
- Middle layer super output area
- Lambeth 028 · E02000645
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
- 240
- Primary
- 142
- Secondary
- 30
- 361 m
Elm Wood School
Community school
- 655 m
Julian's School
Foundation school
- 670 m
Rosemead Preparatory School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,959
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,478
- Anti social behaviour 801
- Vehicle crime 558
- Other theft 428
- Shoplifting 329
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SE21 8 residents
- 11,563
Age bands in SE21 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.2%
2,414 residents
1,237 residents
3,749 residents
3,000 residents
1,440 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
93
within 5 km straight-line
THE OLD DAIRY HEALTH CENTRE
19B CROXTED ROAD, WEST DULWICH, LONDON, SE21 8SZ
ODS code G85706
525 m
KNIGHTS HILL SURGERY SUITE 1
SUITE 1, WEST NORWOOD HEALTH & LC, WEST NORWOOD, LONDON, SE27 0DF
ODS code G85047
596 m
PAXTON GREEN GROUP PRACTICE
PAXTON GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, 1 ALLEYN PARK, LONDON, SE21 8AU
ODS code G85039
812 m
THE DEERBROOK SURGERY
216 NORWOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE27 9AW
ODS code G85129
821 m
NORTH WOOD GROUP PRACTICE
CROWN DALE MEDICAL CENTRE, 61 CROWN DALE, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 3NY
ODS code G85022
1.2 km
VALLEY ROAD SURGERY
139 VALLEY ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2XT
ODS code G85044
1.7 km
BROCKWELL PARK SURGERY
117 NORWOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9AE
ODS code G85137
1.8 km
ELM LODGE SURGERY
2 BURBAGE ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9HJ
ODS code G85051
2.0 km
PALACE ROAD SURGERY
1 PALACE ROAD, STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 3DY
ODS code G85041
2.0 km
AT MEDICS STREATHAM PCN EA HUB
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE, 2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code Y05162
2.1 km
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85002
2.1 km
THE EXCHANGE SURGERY
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85647
2.1 km
THE STREATHAM HILL GROUP PRACTICE
6 LEIGHAM COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW16 2PG
ODS code G85662
2.1 km
EDITH CAVELL PRACTICE
41A-41C STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 4TP
ODS code G85724
2.1 km
THE LORDSHIP LANE SURGERY
417 LORDSHIP LANE, EAST DULWICH, LONDON, SE22 8JN
ODS code G85681
2.3 km
PRENTIS MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PRENTIS ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 1XU
ODS code G85021
2.3 km
WELLS PARK PRACTICE
1 WELLS PARK ROAD, SYDENHAM, LONDON, SE26 6JQ
ODS code G85114
2.4 km
UPPER NORWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
130 CHURCH ROAD, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 2NT
ODS code H83005
2.4 km
THE THREE ZERO SIX MEDICAL CENTRE
306 MEDICAL CENTRE, 306 LORDSHIP LANE, LONDON, SE22 8LY
ODS code G85091
2.4 km
HERNE HILL GROUP PRACTICE
74 HERNE HILL, HERNE HILL, LONDON, SE24 9QP
ODS code G85016
2.5 km
Showing 20 of 93 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Martell Road
BCT · West Dulwich
- 0.1 miles
Robson Road
BCT · West Norwood
- 0.1 miles
Robson Road
BCT · West Norwood
- 0.1 miles
Martell Road
BCT · West Dulwich
- 0.2 miles
Park Hall Road / Rosendale Road
BCT · West Dulwich
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 028B, 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
7,861 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
4,959 published events cover 12 months, averaging 413.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,478 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.