Schools
157 open schools are in scope, including 89 primary and 22 secondary schools. Serenity School Eltham is the nearest published school at 87 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE9 5NR
Eltham Town & Avery Hill · Greenwich · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Greenwich
- Constituency
- Eltham and Chislehurst
- Postcode district
- SE9
- Postcode sector
- SE9 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE9 5NR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE9
- Postcode sector
- SE9 5
- Latitude
- 51.444345
- Longitude
- 0.050553
- British National Grid easting
- 542,600
- British National Grid northing
- 173,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Greenwich · E09000011
- Electoral ward
- Eltham Town & Avery Hill · E05014079
- Parish or community
- E43000201
- Westminster constituency
- Eltham and Chislehurst · E14001223
- Output area
- E00008025
- Lower layer super output area
- Greenwich 028C · E01001615
- Middle layer super output area
- Greenwich 028 · E02000340
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 SE9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 157
- Primary
- 89
- Secondary
- 22
- 87 m
Serenity School Eltham
Other independent special school
- 758 m
StreetVibes Media Academy
Other independent school
- 802 m
Eltham Hill School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,395
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 950
- Shoplifting 585
- Anti social behaviour 382
- Vehicle crime 275
- Public order 256
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SE9 5 residents
- 7,887
Age bands in SE9 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.8%
1,602 residents
785 residents
2,416 residents
1,773 residents
1,056 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
36
within 5 km straight-line
ELTHAM MEDICAL PRACTICE
ELTHAM COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, PASSEY PLACE, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 5DQ
ODS code G83680
661 m
ELTHAM PALACE SURGERY
30 PASSEY PLACE, LONDON, SE9 5DQ
ODS code G83015
661 m
EVEREST HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
71 SHERARD ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6ER
ODS code G83027
1.2 km
ELMSTEAD MEDICAL CLINIC
81 WILLIAM BAREFOOT DRIVE, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 3JD
ODS code G83673
1.5 km
NEW ELTHAM AND BLACKFEN MEDICAL CENTRE
52 THAXTED ROAD, NEW ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 3PT
ODS code G83628
2.0 km
WOODLANDS SURGERY
146 HALFWAY STREET, SIDCUP, DA15 8DF
ODS code G83057
2.7 km
THE CHISLEHURST PARTNERSHIP
42 HIGH STREET, CHISLEHURST, BR7 5AQ
ODS code G84010
3.0 km
NIGHTINGALE SURGERY
LEE HEALTH CENTRE, 2 HANDEN ROAD, LONDON, SE12 8NP
ODS code G85727
3.0 km
MANOR BROOK PMS
117 BROOK LANE, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 0EN
ODS code G83001
3.3 km
OAKVIEW FAMILY PRACTICE
190 SHROFFOLD ROAD, BROMLEY, BR1 5NJ
ODS code G85716
3.4 km
ASHDOWN MEDICAL GROUP
7-9 MOORSIDE ROAD, DOWNHAM, BROMLEY, BR1 5EP
ODS code G85057
3.4 km
ICO HEALTH GROUP
MOORSIDE CLINIC, 7-9 MOORSIDE ROAD, BROMLEY, BR1 5EP
ODS code G85104
3.4 km
LEE ROAD SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, 20 LEE ROAD, LONDON, SE3 9RT
ODS code G85046
3.5 km
LEWISHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
308 LEE HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SE13 5PJ
ODS code G85023
3.6 km
TORRIDON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
80 TORRIDON ROAD, LONDON, SE6 1RB
ODS code G85032
3.7 km
LINKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BROOK LANE SURGERY, 27 BROOK LANE, BROMLEY, BR1 4PX
ODS code G84003
3.7 km
BELLEGROVE SURGERY
174 BELLEGROVE ROAD, WELLING, DA16 3RE
ODS code G83009
3.9 km
THE WESTWOOD SURGERY
24 WESTWOOD LANE, WELLING, DA16 2HE
ODS code G83002
3.9 km
INGLETON AVENUE SURGERY
84 INGLETON AVENUE, WELLING, DA16 2JZ
ODS code G83024
3.9 km
WOODLANDS HEALTH CENTRE
4 EDWIN HALL PLACE, LONDON, SE13 6RN
ODS code G85722
4.0 km
Showing 20 of 36 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Royal Blackheath Golf Club
BCT · Eltham
- 0.2 miles
Royal Blackheath Golf Club
BCT · Eltham
- 0.2 miles
Middle Park Avenue /Court Road
BCT · Mottingham
- 0.2 miles
Middle Park Avenue /Court Road
BCT · Mottingham
- 0.3 miles
Mottingham Station
BCT · Mottingham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Greenwich 028C, 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
14,430 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
3,395 published events cover 12 months, averaging 282.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 950 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.