Schools
300 open schools are in scope, including 175 primary and 40 secondary schools. The Villa is the nearest published school at 125 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE5 8QH
St Giles · Southwark · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE5 8QH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE5
- Postcode sector
- SE5 8
- Latitude
- 51.470886
- Longitude
- -0.078597
- British National Grid easting
- 533,548
- British National Grid northing
- 176,408
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
- E00019701
- Lower layer super output area
- Southwark 024B · E01003914
- 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
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Ashford House, 90, Flat 2, Bushey Hill Road, London, SE5 8QH | 29 November 2013 | £399,950 |
| Ashford House, 90, Flat 3, Bushey Hill Road, London, SE5 8QH | 28 November 2013 | £414,000 |
| Ashford House, 90, Flat 2, Bushey Hill Road, London, SE5 8QH | 28 October 2011 | £283,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 300
- Primary
- 175
- Secondary
- 40
- 125 m
The Villa
Other independent school
- 372 m
Harris Academy Peckham
Academy sponsor led
- 382 m
Camberwell College of Arts
Miscellaneous
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13,042
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,712
- Anti social behaviour 1,591
- Other theft 1,165
- Theft from the person 1,131
- Vehicle crime 934
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- SE5 8 residents
- 14,457
4 female, 5 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 0.1% 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
99
within 5 km
DMC CHADWICK ROAD
60 CHADWICK ROAD, PECKHAM, LONDON, SE15 4PU
ODS code G85031
453 m
THE LISTER PRACTICE
101 PECKHAM ROAD, LONDON, SE15 5LJ
ODS code G85715
459 m
THE LISTER PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
101 PECKHAM ROAD, LONDON, SE15 5LJ
ODS code G85134
459 m
BRUNSWICK PARK FAMILY PRACTICE
40 ST. GILES ROAD, CAMBERWELL, LONDON, SE5 7RF
ODS code G85726
561 m
ST GILES SURGERY
40 ST. GILES ROAD, CAMBERWELL, LONDON, SE5 7RF
ODS code G85042
561 m
STERNHALL LANE SURGERY
12 STERNHALL LANE, PECKHAM, LONDON, SE15 4NT
ODS code G85119
902 m
THE ACORN & GAUMONT HOUSE SURGERY
153 PECKHAM HIGH STREET, PECKHAM, LONDON, SE15 5SL
ODS code G85006
919 m
CAMBERWELL GREEN SURGERY
17 CAMBERWELL GREEN, LONDON, SE5 7AF
ODS code G85013
1.1 km
PARKSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
52 CAMBERWELL GREEN, LONDON, SE5 7AQ
ODS code G85030
1.1 km
THE CORNER SURGERY
99 COLDHARBOUR LANE, LONDON, SE5 9NS
ODS code G85127
1.2 km
TESSA JOWELL GP SURGERY
72H EAST DULWICH GROVE, LONDON, SE22 8EY
ODS code G85132
1.3 km
THE GARDENS SURGERY
THE GARDENS, LONDON, SE22 9QU
ODS code G85644
1.4 km
THE NUNHEAD SURGERY
58 NUNHEAD GROVE, NUNHEAD, LONDON, SE15 3LY
ODS code G85685
1.6 km
HERNE HILL ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-3 HERNE HILL ROAD, LONDON, SE24 0AU
ODS code G85690
1.6 km
THE DULWICH MEDICAL CENTRE
163-169 CRYSTAL PALACE ROAD, EAST DULWICH, LONDON, SE22 9EP
ODS code G85651
1.8 km
THE VILLA STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
47 VILLA STREET, LONDON, SE17 2EL
ODS code G85632
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
MINET GREEN HEALTH PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85135
1.9 km
Showing 20 of 99 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
- 0.2 miles
Peckham Road / Southampton Way
BCT · Peckham
- 0.2 miles
Peckham Road / Southampton Way
BCT · Peckham
- 0.3 miles
Vestry Road
BCT · Camberwell
- 0.3 miles
Harris Academy / Peckham
BCT · Peckham
- 0.3 miles
Harris Academy / Peckham
BCT · Peckham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Southwark 024B, 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
14,306 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
13,042 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,086.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,712 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.