Schools
335 open schools are in scope, including 167 primary and 40 secondary schools. Evolve Academy is the nearest published school at 291 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE5 0SB
Newington · Southwark · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Newington
- Local authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green
- Postcode district
- SE5
- Postcode sector
- SE5 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE5 0SB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1984
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE5
- Postcode sector
- SE5 0
- Latitude
- 51.480280
- Longitude
- -0.107697
- British National Grid easting
- 531,500
- British National Grid northing
- 177,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Southwark · E09000028
- Electoral ward
- Newington · E05011105
- Parish or community
- E43000218
- Westminster constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green · E14001559
- Output area
- E00020134
- Lower layer super output area
- Southwark 017D · E01003993
- Middle layer super output area
- Southwark 017 · E02000823
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 SE5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 335
- Primary
- 167
- Secondary
- 40
- 291 m
Evolve Academy
Academy alternative provision converter
- 318 m
St John the Divine Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 451 m
Christ Church Primary SW9
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 17,972
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,522
- Theft from the person 2,437
- Anti social behaviour 2,200
- Shoplifting 1,760
- Other theft 1,521
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SE5 0 residents
- 11,419
Age bands in SE5 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 37.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.9%
1,790 residents
1,431 residents
4,258 residents
2,888 residents
887 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
109
within 5 km straight-line
VASSALL MEDICAL CENTRE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 89 VASSALL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6NA
ODS code G85073
308 m
AKERMAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85695
537 m
FIVEWAYS PCN EA HUB
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code Y05161
537 m
LAMBETH WALK GROUP PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85054
537 m
MINET GREEN HEALTH PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85135
537 m
PENROSE SURGERY
33 PENROSE STREET, LONDON, SE17 3DW
ODS code G85084
1.1 km
HURLEY AND RIVERSIDE PRACTICES
EBENEZER HOUSE, KENNINGTON LANE, LONDON, SE11 4HJ
ODS code G85053
1.2 km
PARKSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
52 CAMBERWELL GREEN, LONDON, SE5 7AQ
ODS code G85030
1.2 km
CAMBERWELL GREEN SURGERY
17 CAMBERWELL GREEN, LONDON, SE5 7AF
ODS code G85013
1.2 km
THE SOUTH LAMBETH RD PRACTICE
1 SELWAY HOUSE, 272 SOUTH LAMBETH ROAD, LONDON, SW8 1UL
ODS code G85086
1.2 km
MAWBEY GROUP PRACTICE
MAWBREY BROUGH HEALTH CENTRE, 39 WILCOX CLOSE, LONDON, SW8 2UD
ODS code G85130
1.2 km
GRAY'S INN MEDICAL GROUP VAUXHALL
8 JONATHAN STREET, KENNINGTON, LONDON, SE11 5NH
ODS code G85102
1.3 km
BINFIELD ROAD SURGERY
1 BINFIELD ROAD, LONDON, SW4 6TB
ODS code G85123
1.4 km
THE CORNER SURGERY
99 COLDHARBOUR LANE, LONDON, SE5 9NS
ODS code G85127
1.4 km
THE VILLA STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
47 VILLA STREET, LONDON, SE17 2EL
ODS code G85632
1.5 km
STOCKWELL GROUP PRACTICE
107 STOCKWELL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 9TJ
ODS code G85028
1.5 km
THE GRANTHAM PRACTICE
275-277 CLAPHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9BH
ODS code Y00020
1.6 km
BECKETT HOUSE PRACTICE
BECKET HOUSE SURGERY, GRANTHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9DL
ODS code G85100
1.6 km
HERNE HILL ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-3 HERNE HILL ROAD, LONDON, SE24 0AU
ODS code G85690
1.7 km
EAST STREET
HAROLD MOODY HEALTH CENTRE, THURLOW STREET, LONDON, SE17 2GN
ODS code G85721
1.7 km
Showing 20 of 109 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
John Ruskin Street
BCT · Kennington
- 0.1 miles
Kennington Park
BCT · Kennington
- 0.1 miles
John Ruskin Street
BCT · Kennington
- 0.1 miles
Kennington Park
BCT · Kennington
- 0.1 miles
St. Mark's Church Kennington
BCT · Kennington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southwark 017D, 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
10,476 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
17,972 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,497.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,522 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.