Schools
293 open schools are in scope, including 169 primary and 40 secondary schools. Grove Primary School is the nearest published school at 248 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE5 8LJ
Champion Hill · Southwark · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 8LJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1983
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE5
- Postcode sector
- SE5 8
- Latitude
- 51.467254
- Longitude
- -0.080880
- British National Grid easting
- 533,400
- British National Grid northing
- 176,000
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 293
- Primary
- 169
- Secondary
- 40
- 248 m
Grove Primary School
Academy converter
- 363 m
The Villa
Other independent school
- 526 m
The Belham Primary School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 12,285
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,461
- Anti social behaviour 1,476
- Other theft 1,120
- Theft from the person 1,087
- Vehicle crime 919
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SE5 8 residents
- 14,457
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
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
96
within 5 km straight-line
DMC CHADWICK ROAD
60 CHADWICK ROAD, PECKHAM, LONDON, SE15 4PU
ODS code G85031
467 m
BRUNSWICK PARK FAMILY PRACTICE
40 ST. GILES ROAD, CAMBERWELL, LONDON, SE5 7RF
ODS code G85726
843 m
ST GILES SURGERY
40 ST. GILES ROAD, CAMBERWELL, LONDON, SE5 7RF
ODS code G85042
843 m
TESSA JOWELL GP SURGERY
72H EAST DULWICH GROVE, LONDON, SE22 8EY
ODS code G85132
892 m
THE LISTER PRACTICE
101 PECKHAM ROAD, LONDON, SE15 5LJ
ODS code G85715
892 m
THE LISTER PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
101 PECKHAM ROAD, LONDON, SE15 5LJ
ODS code G85134
892 m
STERNHALL LANE SURGERY
12 STERNHALL LANE, PECKHAM, LONDON, SE15 4NT
ODS code G85119
938 m
THE CORNER SURGERY
99 COLDHARBOUR LANE, LONDON, SE5 9NS
ODS code G85127
1.1 km
CAMBERWELL GREEN SURGERY
17 CAMBERWELL GREEN, LONDON, SE5 7AF
ODS code G85013
1.2 km
THE GARDENS SURGERY
THE GARDENS, LONDON, SE22 9QU
ODS code G85644
1.2 km
PARKSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
52 CAMBERWELL GREEN, LONDON, SE5 7AQ
ODS code G85030
1.3 km
THE ACORN & GAUMONT HOUSE SURGERY
153 PECKHAM HIGH STREET, PECKHAM, LONDON, SE15 5SL
ODS code G85006
1.3 km
HERNE HILL ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-3 HERNE HILL ROAD, LONDON, SE24 0AU
ODS code G85690
1.4 km
THE DULWICH MEDICAL CENTRE
163-169 CRYSTAL PALACE ROAD, EAST DULWICH, LONDON, SE22 9EP
ODS code G85651
1.4 km
THE NUNHEAD SURGERY
58 NUNHEAD GROVE, NUNHEAD, LONDON, SE15 3LY
ODS code G85685
1.6 km
HERNE HILL GROUP PRACTICE
74 HERNE HILL, HERNE HILL, LONDON, SE24 9QP
ODS code G85016
1.8 km
THE THREE ZERO SIX MEDICAL CENTRE
306 MEDICAL CENTRE, 306 LORDSHIP LANE, LONDON, SE22 8LY
ODS code G85091
1.9 km
AKERMAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85695
1.9 km
FIVEWAYS PCN EA HUB
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code Y05161
1.9 km
LAMBETH WALK GROUP PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85054
1.9 km
Showing 20 of 96 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Ivanhoe Road
BCT · East Dulwich
- 0.2 miles
Ivanhoe Road
BCT · East Dulwich
- 0.2 miles
Champion Grove
BCT · East Dulwich
- 0.2 miles
Pytchley Road
BCT · East Dulwich
- 0.2 miles
Champion Hill East Dulwich
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
12,285 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,023.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,461 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.