Schools
232 open schools are in scope, including 137 primary and 31 secondary schools. Elm Wood School is the nearest published school at 428 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE27 9LJ
Gipsy Hill · Lambeth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Gipsy Hill
- Local authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Dulwich and West Norwood
- Postcode district
- SE27
- Postcode sector
- SE27 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE27 9LJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE27
- Postcode sector
- SE27 9
- Latitude
- 51.431039
- Longitude
- -0.097906
- British National Grid easting
- 532,322
- British National Grid northing
- 171,942
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lambeth · E09000022
- Electoral ward
- Gipsy Hill · E05014103
- Parish or community
- E43000212
- Westminster constituency
- Dulwich and West Norwood · E14001205
- Output area
- E00015436
- 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 SE27
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 232
- Primary
- 137
- Secondary
- 31
- 428 m
Elm Wood School
Community school
- 490 m
St Luke's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 527 m
Julian's School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,048
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,496
- Anti social behaviour 831
- Vehicle crime 557
- Other theft 432
- Shoplifting 336
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SE27 9 residents
- 9,896
Age bands in SE27 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.1%
2,058 residents
1,030 residents
3,565 residents
2,631 residents
925 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
KNIGHTS HILL SURGERY SUITE 1
SUITE 1, WEST NORWOOD HEALTH & LC, WEST NORWOOD, LONDON, SE27 0DF
ODS code G85047
493 m
THE OLD DAIRY HEALTH CENTRE
19B CROXTED ROAD, WEST DULWICH, LONDON, SE21 8SZ
ODS code G85706
773 m
PAXTON GREEN GROUP PRACTICE
PAXTON GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, 1 ALLEYN PARK, LONDON, SE21 8AU
ODS code G85039
827 m
NORTH WOOD GROUP PRACTICE
CROWN DALE MEDICAL CENTRE, 61 CROWN DALE, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 3NY
ODS code G85022
925 m
THE DEERBROOK SURGERY
216 NORWOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE27 9AW
ODS code G85129
946 m
VALLEY ROAD SURGERY
139 VALLEY ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2XT
ODS code G85044
1.5 km
BROCKWELL PARK SURGERY
117 NORWOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9AE
ODS code G85137
2.0 km
AT MEDICS STREATHAM PCN EA HUB
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE, 2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code Y05162
2.0 km
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85002
2.0 km
THE EXCHANGE SURGERY
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85647
2.0 km
THE STREATHAM HILL GROUP PRACTICE
6 LEIGHAM COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW16 2PG
ODS code G85662
2.1 km
PALACE ROAD SURGERY
1 PALACE ROAD, STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 3DY
ODS code G85041
2.1 km
EDITH CAVELL PRACTICE
41A-41C STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 4TP
ODS code G85724
2.2 km
UPPER NORWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
130 CHURCH ROAD, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 2NT
ODS code H83005
2.2 km
PRENTIS MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PRENTIS ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 1XU
ODS code G85021
2.2 km
ELM LODGE SURGERY
2 BURBAGE ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9HJ
ODS code G85051
2.3 km
WELLS PARK PRACTICE
1 WELLS PARK ROAD, SYDENHAM, LONDON, SE26 6JQ
ODS code G85114
2.4 km
STREATHAM COMMON PRACTICE
293 STREATHAM HIGH ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 3NP
ODS code G85014
2.4 km
THE LORDSHIP LANE SURGERY
417 LORDSHIP LANE, EAST DULWICH, LONDON, SE22 8JN
ODS code G85681
2.6 km
THE THREE ZERO SIX MEDICAL CENTRE
306 MEDICAL CENTRE, 306 LORDSHIP LANE, LONDON, SE22 8LY
ODS code G85091
2.7 km
Showing 20 of 93 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Ernest Avenue
BCT · West Norwood
- 0.2 miles
West Norwood Station
BCT · West Norwood
- 0.2 miles
Gipsy Road
BCT · West Norwood
- 0.2 miles
Ernest Avenue
BCT · West Norwood
- 0.2 miles
Robson Road
BCT · West Norwood
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
5,048 published events cover 12 months, averaging 420.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,496 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.