Schools
256 open schools are in scope, including 140 primary and 32 secondary schools. Oak Lodge School is the nearest published school at 171 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW12 8NZ
Balham · Wandsworth · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW12 8NZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW12
- Postcode sector
- SW12 8
- Latitude
- 51.449146
- Longitude
- -0.160766
- British National Grid easting
- 527,902
- British National Grid northing
- 173,844
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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 127, Nightingale Lane, London, SW12 8NZ | 28 April 2017 | £2,090,000 |
| 127, Nightingale Lane, London, SW12 8NZ | 30 August 1996 | £215,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 256
- Primary
- 140
- Secondary
- 32
- 171 m
Oak Lodge School
Community special school
- 185 m
Broomwood Pre-Prep & Broomwood Prep-Girls
Other independent school
- 303 m
Holy Ghost Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,316
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,840
- Shoplifting 1,000
- Anti social behaviour 870
- Vehicle crime 845
- Other theft 637
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- SW12 8 residents
- 13,021
5 female, 4 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SW12 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
102
within 5 km
NIGHTINGALE PRACTICE
105 NIGHTINGALE LANE, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8NB
ODS code H85691
76 m
THURLEIGH ROAD PRACTICE
88A THURLEIGH ROAD, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8TT
ODS code H85114
555 m
OPEN DOOR SURGERY
47 BOUNDARIES ROAD, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8EU
ODS code H85087
757 m
BOLINGBROKE MEDICAL CENTRE
WAKEHURST ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 6BF
ODS code H85077
946 m
BALHAM PARK SURGERY
236 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7AW
ODS code H85066
1.0 km
BALHAM HEALTH CENTRE
120 BEDFORD HILL, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 9HS
ODS code H85637
1.2 km
BEDFORD HILL FAMILY PRACTICE
120-124 BEDFORD HILL, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 9HS
ODS code H85009
1.2 km
BATTERSEA RISE GROUP PRACTICE
17 BATTERSEA RISE, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 1HG
ODS code H85049
1.3 km
TOOTING BEC SURGERY
313 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7BA
ODS code H85664
1.5 km
HAIDER PRACTICE
162 ST JOHN'S HILL, WANDSWORTH, LONDON, SW11 1SW
ODS code H85075
1.8 km
ST JOHNS HILL SURGERY
ENTRANCE B, 162 ST JOHN'S HILL, WANDSWORTH, LONDON, SW11 1SW
ODS code H85659
1.8 km
CLAPHAM PARK GROUP PRACTICE
72 CLARENCE AVENUE, LONDON, SW4 8JP
ODS code G85109
1.8 km
LAVENDER HILL GROUP PRACTICE
19 POUNTNEY ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 5TU
ODS code H85069
1.9 km
JUNCTION HEALTH CENTRE
ARCH 5-7 CLAPHAM J STN, GRANT ROAD, CLAPHAM JUNCTION, LONDON, SW11 2NU
ODS code Y02946
1.9 km
BROCKLEBANK HEALTH CENTRE
233 GARRATT LANE, WANDSWORTH, LONDON, SW18 4DU
ODS code H85048
2.0 km
CLAPHAM JUNCTION MEDICAL PRACTICE
7 FARRANT HOUSE, WINSTANLEY ROAD, LONDON, SW11 2EJ
ODS code H85088
2.1 km
QUEENSTOWN ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
14 QUEENSTOWN ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW8 3RX
ODS code H85003
2.1 km
EARLSFIELD SURGERY
2-4 STEERFORTH STREET, LONDON, SW18 4HH
ODS code H85041
2.2 km
WANDSWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
90-92 GARRATT LANE, WANDSWORTH, LONDON, SW18 4DD
ODS code H85001
2.2 km
GRAFTON SQUARE SURGERY
8B GRAFTON SQUARE, LONDON, SW4 0DE
ODS code G85674
2.2 km
Showing 20 of 102 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
- 0.0 miles
Oak Lodge School
BCT · Balham
- 0.1 miles
Bolingbroke Grove / Ravenslea Road
BCT · Balham
- 0.1 miles
Bolingbroke Grove / Ravenslea Road
BCT · Balham
- 0.1 miles
Oak Lodge School
BCT · Balham
- 0.1 miles
Granard 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.
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
- 3
- 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
7,316 published events cover 12 months, averaging 609.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,840 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.