Schools
318 open schools are in scope, including 168 primary and 43 secondary schools. Arco Academy is the nearest published school at 53 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE5 7BF
St Giles · Southwark · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE5 7BF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE5
- Postcode sector
- SE5 7
- Latitude
- 51.475417
- Longitude
- -0.090618
- British National Grid easting
- 532,700
- British National Grid northing
- 176,890
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Southwark · E09000028
- Electoral ward
- St Giles · E05011115
- Parish or community
- E43000218
- Westminster constituency
- Peckham · E14001421
- Output area
- E00177635
- Lower layer super output area
- Southwark 021C · E01003921
- Middle layer super output area
- Southwark 021 · E02000827
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
- 318
- Primary
- 168
- Secondary
- 43
- 53 m
Arco Academy
Other independent school
- 321 m
Brunswick Park Primary School
Community school
- 447 m
Spa School Camberwell
Free schools special
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 14,756
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,233
- Anti social behaviour 1,779
- Shoplifting 1,303
- Other theft 1,286
- Theft from the person 1,173
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 24
- Postcode households
- 24
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- SE5 7 residents
- 12,610
3 female, 21 male
Age bands in SE5 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 38.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.5%
1,866 residents
1,414 residents
4,351 residents
2,670 residents
954 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SE5 7 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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
95
within 5 km
PARKSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
52 CAMBERWELL GREEN, LONDON, SE5 7AQ
ODS code G85030
146 m
CAMBERWELL GREEN SURGERY
17 CAMBERWELL GREEN, LONDON, SE5 7AF
ODS code G85013
216 m
BRUNSWICK PARK FAMILY PRACTICE
40 ST. GILES ROAD, CAMBERWELL, LONDON, SE5 7RF
ODS code G85726
460 m
ST GILES SURGERY
40 ST. GILES ROAD, CAMBERWELL, LONDON, SE5 7RF
ODS code G85042
460 m
THE CORNER SURGERY
99 COLDHARBOUR LANE, LONDON, SE5 9NS
ODS code G85127
731 m
AKERMAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85695
1.0 km
FIVEWAYS PCN EA HUB
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code Y05161
1.0 km
LAMBETH WALK GROUP PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85054
1.0 km
MINET GREEN HEALTH PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85135
1.0 km
THE LISTER PRACTICE
101 PECKHAM ROAD, LONDON, SE15 5LJ
ODS code G85715
1.1 km
THE LISTER PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
101 PECKHAM ROAD, LONDON, SE15 5LJ
ODS code G85134
1.1 km
THE VILLA STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
47 VILLA STREET, LONDON, SE17 2EL
ODS code G85632
1.3 km
VASSALL MEDICAL CENTRE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 89 VASSALL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6NA
ODS code G85073
1.3 km
HERNE HILL ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-3 HERNE HILL ROAD, LONDON, SE24 0AU
ODS code G85690
1.3 km
DMC CHADWICK ROAD
60 CHADWICK ROAD, PECKHAM, LONDON, SE15 4PU
ODS code G85031
1.4 km
PENROSE SURGERY
33 PENROSE STREET, LONDON, SE17 3DW
ODS code G85084
1.4 km
EAST STREET
HAROLD MOODY HEALTH CENTRE, THURLOW STREET, LONDON, SE17 2GN
ODS code G85721
1.4 km
THE ACORN & GAUMONT HOUSE SURGERY
153 PECKHAM HIGH STREET, PECKHAM, LONDON, SE15 5SL
ODS code G85006
1.7 km
OLD KENT ROAD SURGERY
182-184 OLD KENT ROAD, LONDON, SE1 5TY
ODS code G85052
1.8 km
STERNHALL LANE SURGERY
12 STERNHALL LANE, PECKHAM, LONDON, SE15 4NT
ODS code G85119
1.9 km
Showing 20 of 95 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Camberwell Church Street / Camberwell Green
BCT · Camberwell
- 0.1 miles
Camberwell Church Street / Camberwell Green
BCT · Camberwell
- 0.1 miles
Camberwell Green
BCT · Camberwell
- 0.1 miles
Camberwell Green
BCT · Camberwell
- 0.1 miles
Camberwell Green
BCT · Camberwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southwark 021C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,899 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
14,756 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,229.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,233 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.