Schools
260 open schools are in scope, including 142 primary and 34 secondary schools. Oak Lodge School is the nearest published school at 36 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW12 8LX
Balham · Wandsworth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Balham
- Local authority
- Wandsworth
- Constituency
- Tooting
- Postcode district
- SW12
- Postcode sector
- SW12 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW12 8LX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW12
- Postcode sector
- SW12 8
- Latitude
- 51.448706
- Longitude
- -0.157934
- British National Grid easting
- 528,100
- British National Grid northing
- 173,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Wandsworth · E09000032
- Electoral ward
- Balham · E05014009
- Parish or community
- E43000222
- Westminster constituency
- Tooting · E14001550
- Output area
- E00183104
- Lower layer super output area
- Wandsworth 017D · E01004550
- Middle layer super output area
- Wandsworth 017 · E02000939
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 SW12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 260
- Primary
- 142
- Secondary
- 34
- 36 m
Oak Lodge School
Community special school
- 135 m
Holy Ghost Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 186 m
Broomwood Pre-Prep & Broomwood Prep-Girls
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,766
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,582
- Vehicle crime 859
- Shoplifting 839
- Anti social behaviour 839
- Other theft 625
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SW12 8 residents
- 13,021
Age bands in SW12 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 41.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.7%
1,941 residents
1,292 residents
5,361 residents
2,822 residents
1,366 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
97
within 5 km straight-line
NIGHTINGALE PRACTICE
105 NIGHTINGALE LANE, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8NB
ODS code H85691
144 m
THURLEIGH ROAD PRACTICE
88A THURLEIGH ROAD, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8TT
ODS code H85114
489 m
OPEN DOOR SURGERY
47 BOUNDARIES ROAD, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8EU
ODS code H85087
638 m
BALHAM PARK SURGERY
236 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7AW
ODS code H85066
928 m
BEDFORD HILL FAMILY PRACTICE
120-124 BEDFORD HILL, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 9HS
ODS code H85009
1.1 km
BOLINGBROKE MEDICAL CENTRE
WAKEHURST ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 6BF
ODS code H85077
1.1 km
BATTERSEA RISE GROUP PRACTICE
17 BATTERSEA RISE, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 1HG
ODS code H85049
1.4 km
TOOTING BEC SURGERY
313 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7BA
ODS code H85664
1.4 km
CLAPHAM PARK GROUP PRACTICE
72 CLARENCE AVENUE, LONDON, SW4 8JP
ODS code G85109
1.6 km
LAVENDER HILL GROUP PRACTICE
19 POUNTNEY ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 5TU
ODS code H85069
1.9 km
HAIDER PRACTICE
162 ST JOHN'S HILL, WANDSWORTH, LONDON, SW11 1SW
ODS code H85075
1.9 km
ST JOHNS HILL SURGERY
ENTRANCE B, 162 ST JOHN'S HILL, WANDSWORTH, LONDON, SW11 1SW
ODS code H85659
1.9 km
JUNCTION HEALTH CENTRE
ARCH 5-7 CLAPHAM J STN, GRANT ROAD, CLAPHAM JUNCTION, LONDON, SW11 2NU
ODS code Y02946
2.0 km
QUEENSTOWN ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
14 QUEENSTOWN ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW8 3RX
ODS code H85003
2.1 km
GRAFTON SQUARE SURGERY
8B GRAFTON SQUARE, LONDON, SW4 0DE
ODS code G85674
2.2 km
BROCKLEBANK HEALTH CENTRE
233 GARRATT LANE, WANDSWORTH, LONDON, SW18 4DU
ODS code H85048
2.2 km
CLAPHAM JUNCTION MEDICAL PRACTICE
7 FARRANT HOUSE, WINSTANLEY ROAD, LONDON, SW11 2EJ
ODS code H85088
2.2 km
CLAPHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
MARY SEACOLE CENTRE, 89 CLAPHAM HIGH STREET, LONDON, SW4 7DB
ODS code G85011
2.3 km
EARLSFIELD SURGERY
2-4 STEERFORTH STREET, LONDON, SW18 4HH
ODS code H85041
2.4 km
DR CURRAN & PARTNERS
THE CLAPHAM MANOR HEALTH CENTRE, 86 CLAPHAM MANOR STREET, LONDON, SW4 6EB
ODS code G85708
2.4 km
Showing 20 of 97 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Oak Lodge School
BCT · Balham
- 0.1 miles
Oak Lodge School
BCT · Balham
- 0.1 miles
Ramsden Road Balham
BCT · Balham
- 0.2 miles
Ramsden Road Balham
BCT · Balham
- 0.2 miles
Bolingbroke Grove / Ravenslea Road
BCT · Balham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wandsworth 017D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,475 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
6,766 published events cover 12 months, averaging 563.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,582 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.