Schools
163 open schools are in scope, including 103 primary and 19 secondary schools. Greenvale School is the nearest published school at 36 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE6 1UG
Hither Green · Lewisham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hither Green
- Local authority
- Lewisham
- Constituency
- Lewisham East
- Postcode district
- SE6
- Postcode sector
- SE6 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE6 1UG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2004
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE6
- Postcode sector
- SE6 1
- Latitude
- 51.433370
- Longitude
- 0.003461
- British National Grid easting
- 539,361
- British National Grid northing
- 172,389
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lewisham · E09000023
- Electoral ward
- Hither Green · E05013724
- Parish or community
- E43000213
- Westminster constituency
- Lewisham East · E14001331
- Output area
- E00016930
- Lower layer super output area
- Lewisham 026A · E01003346
- Middle layer super output area
- Lewisham 026 · E02000678
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 SE6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 163
- Primary
- 103
- Secondary
- 19
- 36 m
Greenvale School
Community special school
- 94 m
Forster Park Primary School
Community school
- 468 m
New Woodlands School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,737
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,989
- Anti social behaviour 690
- Shoplifting 610
- Vehicle crime 598
- Other theft 359
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SE6 1 residents
- 17,904
Age bands in SE6 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.3%
3,455 residents
2,203 residents
5,064 residents
4,752 residents
1,963 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.
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
43
within 5 km straight-line
OAKVIEW FAMILY PRACTICE
190 SHROFFOLD ROAD, BROMLEY, BR1 5NJ
ODS code G85716
466 m
TORRIDON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
80 TORRIDON ROAD, LONDON, SE6 1RB
ODS code G85032
843 m
ASHDOWN MEDICAL GROUP
7-9 MOORSIDE ROAD, DOWNHAM, BROMLEY, BR1 5EP
ODS code G85057
850 m
ICO HEALTH GROUP
MOORSIDE CLINIC, 7-9 MOORSIDE ROAD, BROMLEY, BR1 5EP
ODS code G85104
850 m
PARKVIEW SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, 186 BROWNHILL ROAD, CATFORD, LONDON, SE6 1AT
ODS code G85121
1.5 km
LINKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BROOK LANE SURGERY, 27 BROOK LANE, BROMLEY, BR1 4PX
ODS code G84003
1.7 km
WOODLANDS HEALTH CENTRE
4 EDWIN HALL PLACE, LONDON, SE13 6RN
ODS code G85722
1.9 km
LONDON LANE CLINIC
KINNAIRD HOUSE, 37 LONDON LANE, BROMLEY, BR1 4HB
ODS code G84016
2.1 km
NIGHTINGALE SURGERY
LEE HEALTH CENTRE, 2 HANDEN ROAD, LONDON, SE12 8NP
ODS code G85727
2.2 km
SUNDRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
84 LONDON LANE, BROMLEY, BR1 4HE
ODS code G84629
2.2 km
NOVUM HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
THE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, HAWSTEAD ROAD, LEWISHAM, LONDON, SE6 4JH
ODS code G85633
2.3 km
HIGHLAND ROAD SURGERY
10 HIGHLAND ROAD, BROMLEY, BR1 4AD
ODS code G84604
2.6 km
LEWISHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
308 LEE HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SE13 5PJ
ODS code G85023
2.8 km
WOOLSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOLSTONE ROAD, LONDON, SE23 2SG
ODS code G85061
2.9 km
TRIANGLE GROUP PRACTICE LIMITED
2 MORLEY ROAD, LEWISHAM, LONDON, SE13 6DQ
ODS code G85120
2.9 km
SYDENHAM GREEN GROUP PRACTICE
26 HOLMSHAW CLOSE, SYDENHAM, LONDON, SE26 4TH
ODS code G85024
3.0 km
MODALITY LEWISHAM (ML)
JENNER HEALTH CENTRE 201-203, STANSTEAD ROAD, FOREST HILL, LONDON, SE23 1HU
ODS code G85004
3.2 km
ONE CARE LAMBETH
JENNER DENTAL SUITE, 14 ST. GERMAN'S ROAD, LONDON, SE23 1RJ
ODS code Y07020
3.3 km
ONE CARE LEWISHAM
THE JENNER DENTAL SUITE, 14 ST GERMANS ROAD, LONDON, SE23 1RJ
ODS code Y08411
3.3 km
SEL SPECIAL ALLOCATION PRACTICE
THE JENNER DENTAL SUITE, 14 ST. GERMANS ROAD, LONDON, SE23 1RJ
ODS code Y06545
3.3 km
Showing 20 of 43 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Greenvale School
BCT · Southend
- 0.0 miles
Greenvale School
BCT · Southend
- 0.1 miles
Crutchley Road
BCT · Grove Park
- 0.1 miles
Castillon Road
BCT · Southend
- 0.1 miles
Castillon Road
BCT · Southend
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lewisham 026A, 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
5,428 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
5,737 published events cover 12 months, averaging 478.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,989 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.