Schools
192 open schools are in scope, including 106 primary and 23 secondary schools. Rowan Wood School is the nearest published school at 356 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE3 8AU
Blackheath Westcombe · Greenwich · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Blackheath Westcombe
- Local authority
- Greenwich
- Constituency
- Greenwich and Woolwich
- Postcode district
- SE3
- Postcode sector
- SE3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE3 8AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1988
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE3
- Postcode sector
- SE3 8
- Latitude
- 51.469032
- Longitude
- 0.027182
- British National Grid easting
- 540,900
- British National Grid northing
- 176,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Greenwich · E09000011
- Electoral ward
- Blackheath Westcombe · E05014073
- Parish or community
- E43000201
- Westminster constituency
- Greenwich and Woolwich · E14001257
- Output area
- E00007853
- Lower layer super output area
- Greenwich 021B · E01001582
- Middle layer super output area
- Greenwich 021 · E02000333
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 SE3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 192
- Primary
- 106
- Secondary
- 23
- 356 m
Rowan Wood School
Free schools special
- 366 m
Kidbrooke Park Primary School
Academy converter
- 483 m
Thomas Tallis School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,022
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,402
- Anti social behaviour 555
- Vehicle crime 346
- Other theft 316
- Shoplifting 275
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SE3 8 residents
- 10,105
Age bands in SE3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.3%
1,792 residents
1,124 residents
2,976 residents
2,662 residents
1,426 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
52
within 5 km straight-line
MANOR BROOK PMS
117 BROOK LANE, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 0EN
ODS code G83001
147 m
BLACKHEATH STANDARD PMS
BLACKHEATH SURGERY, 11-13 CHARLTON ROAD, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 7HB
ODS code G83013
1.1 km
LEE ROAD SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, 20 LEE ROAD, LONDON, SE3 9RT
ODS code G85046
1.4 km
FAIRFIELD PMS
THE FAIRFIELD CENTRE, 41- 43 FAIRFIELD GROVE, CHARLTON, LONDON, SE7 8TX
ODS code G83044
1.8 km
LEWISHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
308 LEE HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SE13 5PJ
ODS code G85023
2.0 km
NIGHTINGALE SURGERY
LEE HEALTH CENTRE, 2 HANDEN ROAD, LONDON, SE12 8NP
ODS code G85727
2.2 km
EVEREST HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
71 SHERARD ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6ER
ODS code G83027
2.2 km
VANBRUGH GROUP PRACTICE
LEVEL 2, GREENWICH CENTRE, 12 LAMBARDE SQUARE, LONDON, SE10 9GB
ODS code G83021
2.3 km
WOODLANDS SURGERY
2 WOODLAND WALK, OFF TRAFALGAR ROAD, LONDON, SE10 9UB
ODS code G83651
2.4 km
BURNEY STREET PMS
48 BURNEY STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8EX
ODS code G83065
2.8 km
ELTHAM MEDICAL PRACTICE
ELTHAM COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, PASSEY PLACE, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 5DQ
ODS code G83680
2.8 km
ELTHAM PALACE SURGERY
30 PASSEY PLACE, LONDON, SE9 5DQ
ODS code G83015
2.8 km
PRIMECARE PMS (SOUTH STREET)
SOUTH ST MEDICAL CENTRE, 71A GREENWICH SOUTH STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8NT
ODS code G83058
2.9 km
GREENWICH PENINSULA
GREENWICH PENINSULA PRACTICE, SCHOOLBANK ROAD, LONDON, SE10 0QN
ODS code Y03755
2.9 km
PLUMBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
32-33 PLUMBRIDGE STREET, LONDON, SE10 8PA
ODS code G83641
2.9 km
TRIANGLE GROUP PRACTICE LIMITED
2 MORLEY ROAD, LEWISHAM, LONDON, SE13 6DQ
ODS code G85120
2.9 km
ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTRE PMS
13A RIPON ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 3PS
ODS code G83030
2.9 km
WOODLANDS HEALTH CENTRE
4 EDWIN HALL PLACE, LONDON, SE13 6RN
ODS code G85722
3.1 km
TRIVENI PMS
ESCREET SURGERY, ESCREET GROVE, WOOLWICH, LONDON, SE18 5TE
ODS code G83026
3.2 km
ST MARKS PMS
24 WROTTESLEY ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 3EP
ODS code G83039
3.4 km
Showing 20 of 52 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Wricklemarsh Rd Rochester Way
BCT · Kidbrooke
- 0.1 miles
Woolacombe Road
BCT · Kidbrooke
- 0.1 miles
The Dover Patrol/Brook Lane
BCT · Kidbrooke
- 0.2 miles
Eastbrook Road
BCT · Kidbrooke
- 0.2 miles
Woolacombe Road
BCT · Kidbrooke
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Greenwich 021B, 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
13,179 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,022 published events cover 12 months, averaging 335.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,402 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.