Property market
The five-year median is £630,000 from 18 recorded sales in SE5 8LH. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Southwark is £582,473 in June 2026, up 2.2% year on year.
SE5 8LH
Champion Hill · Southwark · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Ward
- Champion Hill
- Local authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Dulwich and West Norwood
- Postcode district
- SE5
- Postcode sector
- SE5 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE5 8LH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE5
- Postcode sector
- SE5 8
- Latitude
- 51.467468
- Longitude
- -0.079143
- British National Grid easting
- 533,520
- British National Grid northing
- 176,027
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Southwark · E09000028
- Electoral ward
- Champion Hill · E05011097
- Parish or community
- E43000218
- Westminster constituency
- Dulwich and West Norwood · E14001205
- Output area
- E00020384
- Lower layer super output area
- Southwark 024E · E01004052
- Middle layer super output area
- Southwark 024 · E02000830
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
Property
118 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Highgrove House, 26, Flat 1, Grove Park, London, SE5 8LH | 12 May 2026 | £700,000 |
| Damson House, 17a, Grove Park, London, SE5 8LH | 3 October 2025 | £3,350,000 |
| 23, Flat 2, Grove Park, London, SE5 8LH | 25 September 2025 | £635,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 294
- Primary
- 171
- Secondary
- 40
- 285 m
The Villa
Other independent school
- 345 m
Grove Primary School
Academy converter
- 418 m
The Belham Primary School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 12,426
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,535
- Anti social behaviour 1,446
- Other theft 1,122
- Theft from the person 1,076
- Vehicle crime 937
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 99
- Postcode households
- 48
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- SE5 8 residents
- 14,457
46 female, 53 male
Age bands in SE5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 38.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.8%
2,258 residents
2,077 residents
5,966 residents
3,727 residents
1,361 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SE5 8 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
95
within 5 km
DMC CHADWICK ROAD
60 CHADWICK ROAD, PECKHAM, LONDON, SE15 4PU
ODS code G85031
344 m
STERNHALL LANE SURGERY
12 STERNHALL LANE, PECKHAM, LONDON, SE15 4NT
ODS code G85119
819 m
THE LISTER PRACTICE
101 PECKHAM ROAD, LONDON, SE15 5LJ
ODS code G85715
827 m
THE LISTER PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
101 PECKHAM ROAD, LONDON, SE15 5LJ
ODS code G85134
827 m
BRUNSWICK PARK FAMILY PRACTICE
40 ST. GILES ROAD, CAMBERWELL, LONDON, SE5 7RF
ODS code G85726
861 m
ST GILES SURGERY
40 ST. GILES ROAD, CAMBERWELL, LONDON, SE5 7RF
ODS code G85042
861 m
TESSA JOWELL GP SURGERY
72H EAST DULWICH GROVE, LONDON, SE22 8EY
ODS code G85132
921 m
THE GARDENS SURGERY
THE GARDENS, LONDON, SE22 9QU
ODS code G85644
1.1 km
THE ACORN & GAUMONT HOUSE SURGERY
153 PECKHAM HIGH STREET, PECKHAM, LONDON, SE15 5SL
ODS code G85006
1.2 km
THE CORNER SURGERY
99 COLDHARBOUR LANE, LONDON, SE5 9NS
ODS code G85127
1.2 km
CAMBERWELL GREEN SURGERY
17 CAMBERWELL GREEN, LONDON, SE5 7AF
ODS code G85013
1.3 km
PARKSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
52 CAMBERWELL GREEN, LONDON, SE5 7AQ
ODS code G85030
1.3 km
THE DULWICH MEDICAL CENTRE
163-169 CRYSTAL PALACE ROAD, EAST DULWICH, LONDON, SE22 9EP
ODS code G85651
1.4 km
HERNE HILL ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-3 HERNE HILL ROAD, LONDON, SE24 0AU
ODS code G85690
1.5 km
THE NUNHEAD SURGERY
58 NUNHEAD GROVE, NUNHEAD, LONDON, SE15 3LY
ODS code G85685
1.5 km
THE THREE ZERO SIX MEDICAL CENTRE
306 MEDICAL CENTRE, 306 LORDSHIP LANE, LONDON, SE22 8LY
ODS code G85091
1.9 km
HERNE HILL GROUP PRACTICE
74 HERNE HILL, HERNE HILL, LONDON, SE24 9QP
ODS code G85016
1.9 km
FOREST HILL GROUP PRACTICE
1 FOREST HILL ROAD, DULWICH, LONDON, SE22 0SQ
ODS code G85001
2.0 km
AKERMAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85695
2.0 km
FIVEWAYS PCN EA HUB
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code Y05161
2.0 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ivanhoe Road
BCT · East Dulwich
- 0.1 miles
Ivanhoe Road
BCT · East Dulwich
- 0.2 miles
Copleston Road
BCT · East Dulwich
- 0.2 miles
Copleston Road
BCT · East Dulwich
- 0.2 miles
Pytchley Road
BCT · East Dulwich
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southwark 024E, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,160 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
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
- 7
- 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
Schools
294 open schools are in scope, including 171 primary and 40 secondary schools. The Villa is the nearest published school at 285 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
12,426 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,035.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,535 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.