Schools
167 open schools are in scope, including 107 primary and 21 secondary schools. Watergate School is the nearest published school at 226 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE6 3QL
Bellingham · Lewisham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bellingham
- Local authority
- Lewisham
- Constituency
- Lewisham East
- Postcode district
- SE6
- Postcode sector
- SE6 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE6 3QL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE6
- Postcode sector
- SE6 3
- Latitude
- 51.425859
- Longitude
- -0.025076
- British National Grid easting
- 537,400
- British National Grid northing
- 171,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lewisham · E09000023
- Electoral ward
- Bellingham · E05013714
- Parish or community
- E43000213
- Westminster constituency
- Lewisham East · E14001331
- Output area
- E00016141
- Lower layer super output area
- Lewisham 034D · E01003192
- Middle layer super output area
- Lewisham 034 · E02000686
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
- 167
- Primary
- 107
- Secondary
- 21
- 226 m
Watergate School
Foundation special school
- 358 m
Elfrida Primary School
Community school
- 426 m
Sedgehill Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,370
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,555
- Shoplifting 832
- Anti social behaviour 617
- Vehicle crime 562
- Other theft 338
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SE6 3 residents
- 12,437
Age bands in SE6 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.2%
2,354 residents
1,455 residents
3,533 residents
3,243 residents
1,333 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
52
within 5 km straight-line
SYDENHAM GREEN GROUP PRACTICE
26 HOLMSHAW CLOSE, SYDENHAM, LONDON, SE26 4TH
ODS code G85024
1.0 km
WOOLSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOLSTONE ROAD, LONDON, SE23 2SG
ODS code G85061
1.6 km
VALE MEDICAL CENTRE
195-197 PERRY VALE, FOREST HILL, LONDON, SE23 2JF
ODS code G85696
1.7 km
BROMLEAG CARE PRACTICE
BECKENHAM CLINIC, 14 THE CRESCENT, BECKENHAM, BR3 1DU
ODS code Y06345
1.8 km
MANOR ROAD SURGERY
14 MANOR ROAD, BECKENHAM, BR3 5LE
ODS code G84008
2.1 km
CORNERWAYS SURGERY
50 MANOR ROAD, BECKENHAM, BR3 5LG
ODS code G84018
2.1 km
MODALITY LEWISHAM (ML)
JENNER HEALTH CENTRE 201-203, STANSTEAD ROAD, FOREST HILL, LONDON, SE23 1HU
ODS code G85004
2.1 km
ONE CARE LAMBETH
JENNER DENTAL SUITE, 14 ST. GERMAN'S ROAD, LONDON, SE23 1RJ
ODS code Y07020
2.2 km
ONE CARE LEWISHAM
THE JENNER DENTAL SUITE, 14 ST GERMANS ROAD, LONDON, SE23 1RJ
ODS code Y08411
2.2 km
SEL SPECIAL ALLOCATION PRACTICE
THE JENNER DENTAL SUITE, 14 ST. GERMANS ROAD, LONDON, SE23 1RJ
ODS code Y06545
2.2 km
SPECIAL ALLOCATION SCHEME (NEL)
JENNER DENTAL CLINIC, 14 ST GERMANS ROAD, LONDON, SE23 1RJ
ODS code Y06592
2.2 km
TORRIDON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
80 TORRIDON ROAD, LONDON, SE6 1RB
ODS code G85032
2.3 km
OAKVIEW FAMILY PRACTICE
190 SHROFFOLD ROAD, BROMLEY, BR1 5NJ
ODS code G85716
2.3 km
ELM HOUSE SURGERY
BECKENHAM BEACON, 379 CROYDON ROAD, BECKENHAM, BR3 3FD
ODS code G84027
2.4 km
ASHDOWN MEDICAL GROUP
7-9 MOORSIDE ROAD, DOWNHAM, BROMLEY, BR1 5EP
ODS code G85057
2.4 km
ICO HEALTH GROUP
MOORSIDE CLINIC, 7-9 MOORSIDE ROAD, BROMLEY, BR1 5EP
ODS code G85104
2.4 km
PARKVIEW SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, 186 BROWNHILL ROAD, CATFORD, LONDON, SE6 1AT
ODS code G85121
2.4 km
LONDON LANE CLINIC
KINNAIRD HOUSE, 37 LONDON LANE, BROMLEY, BR1 4HB
ODS code G84016
2.6 km
NOVUM HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
THE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, HAWSTEAD ROAD, LEWISHAM, LONDON, SE6 4JH
ODS code G85633
2.7 km
WELLS PARK PRACTICE
1 WELLS PARK ROAD, SYDENHAM, LONDON, SE26 6JQ
ODS code G85114
2.7 km
Showing 20 of 52 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
King Alfred Avenue
BCT · Bell Green
- 0.1 miles
King Alfred Avenue
BCT · Bell Green
- 0.1 miles
Farmstead Road
BCT · Bellingham
- 0.1 miles
Farmstead Road
BCT · Bellingham
- 0.2 miles
Greycot Road
BCT · New Beckenham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lewisham 034D, 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
3,540 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
5,370 published events cover 12 months, averaging 447.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,555 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.