Property market
The five-year median is £657,500 from 2 recorded sales in SE26 5RU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Lewisham is £491,259 in June 2026, up 0.6% year on year.
SE26 5RU
Sydenham · Lewisham · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE26 5RU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE26
- Postcode sector
- SE26 5
- Latitude
- 51.425462
- Longitude
- -0.042182
- British National Grid easting
- 536,212
- British National Grid northing
- 171,424
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lewisham · E09000023
- Electoral ward
- Sydenham · E05013731
- Parish or community
- E43000213
- Westminster constituency
- Lewisham West and East Dulwich · E14001333
- Output area
- E00016865
- Lower layer super output area
- Lewisham 035D · E01003333
- Middle layer super output area
- Lewisham 035 · E02000687
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 SE26
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 34, Fairlawn Park, London, SE26 5RU | 12 September 2025 | £750,000 |
| 34, Fairlawn Park, London, SE26 5RU | 24 September 2021 | £565,000 |
| 34, Fairlawn Park, London, SE26 5RU | 22 March 2010 | £299,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 183
- Primary
- 116
- Secondary
- 27
- 119 m
Our Lady and St Philip Neri Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 402 m
St Michael's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 512 m
Haseltine Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,121
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,946
- Anti social behaviour 825
- Vehicle crime 754
- Other theft 446
- Shoplifting 443
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 43
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- SE26 5 residents
- 9,058
26 female, 17 male
Age bands in SE26 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 36.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.9%
1,654 residents
784 residents
3,360 residents
2,274 residents
1,090 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SE26 5 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
61
within 5 km
SYDENHAM GREEN GROUP PRACTICE
26 HOLMSHAW CLOSE, SYDENHAM, LONDON, SE26 4TH
ODS code G85024
463 m
VALE MEDICAL CENTRE
195-197 PERRY VALE, FOREST HILL, LONDON, SE23 2JF
ODS code G85696
1.1 km
WOOLSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOLSTONE ROAD, LONDON, SE23 2SG
ODS code G85061
1.5 km
WELLS PARK PRACTICE
1 WELLS PARK ROAD, SYDENHAM, LONDON, SE26 6JQ
ODS code G85114
1.6 km
MODALITY LEWISHAM (ML)
JENNER HEALTH CENTRE 201-203, STANSTEAD ROAD, FOREST HILL, LONDON, SE23 1HU
ODS code G85004
1.9 km
ONE CARE LAMBETH
JENNER DENTAL SUITE, 14 ST. GERMAN'S ROAD, LONDON, SE23 1RJ
ODS code Y07020
1.9 km
ONE CARE LEWISHAM
THE JENNER DENTAL SUITE, 14 ST GERMANS ROAD, LONDON, SE23 1RJ
ODS code Y08411
1.9 km
SEL SPECIAL ALLOCATION PRACTICE
THE JENNER DENTAL SUITE, 14 ST. GERMANS ROAD, LONDON, SE23 1RJ
ODS code Y06545
1.9 km
SPECIAL ALLOCATION SCHEME (NEL)
JENNER DENTAL CLINIC, 14 ST GERMANS ROAD, LONDON, SE23 1RJ
ODS code Y06592
1.9 km
ROBIN HOOD SURGERY
94 CROYDON ROAD, ANERLEY, LONDON, SE20 7AB
ODS code G84029
2.0 km
BROMLEAG CARE PRACTICE
BECKENHAM CLINIC, 14 THE CRESCENT, BECKENHAM, BR3 1DU
ODS code Y06345
2.1 km
OAKFIELD SURGERY
17 OAKFIELD ROAD, LONDON, SE20 8QA
ODS code G84625
2.1 km
THE PARK PRACTICE
OAKS PARK MEDICAL CENTRE, 17 OAKFIELD ROAD, LONDON, SE20 8QA
ODS code G84025
2.1 km
ANERLEY SURGERY
224 ANERLEY ROAD, PENGE, LONDON, SE20 8TJ
ODS code G84624
2.3 km
ELM HOUSE SURGERY
BECKENHAM BEACON, 379 CROYDON ROAD, BECKENHAM, BR3 3FD
ODS code G84027
2.4 km
MANOR ROAD SURGERY
14 MANOR ROAD, BECKENHAM, BR3 5LE
ODS code G84008
2.4 km
CORNERWAYS SURGERY
50 MANOR ROAD, BECKENHAM, BR3 5LG
ODS code G84018
2.6 km
EDEN PARK SURGERY
194 CROYDON ROAD, BECKENHAM, BR3 4DQ
ODS code G84011
2.9 km
ST JAMES' PRACTICE
138 CROYDON ROAD, BECKENHAM, BR3 4DG
ODS code G84028
2.9 km
PAXTON GREEN GROUP PRACTICE
PAXTON GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, 1 ALLEYN PARK, LONDON, SE21 8AU
ODS code G85039
3.1 km
Showing 20 of 61 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
- 0.1 miles
Watlington Grove
BCT · Lower Sydenham
- 0.1 miles
Watlington Grove
BCT · Lower Sydenham
- 0.1 miles
Highclere Street
BCT · Bell Green
- 0.1 miles
Highclere Street
BCT · Bell Green
- 0.1 miles
Knighton Park Road
BCT · Lower Sydenham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lewisham 035D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,014 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 2
- Medium risk addresses
- 4
- Low risk addresses
- 9
- 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
Schools
183 open schools are in scope, including 116 primary and 27 secondary schools. Our Lady and St Philip Neri Catholic Primary School is the nearest published school at 119 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
6,121 published events cover 12 months, averaging 510.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,946 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.