Schools
250 open schools are in scope, including 135 primary and 32 secondary schools. Hornsby House School is the nearest published school at 1 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW12 8RS
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 8RS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW12
- Postcode sector
- SW12 8
- Latitude
- 51.444764
- Longitude
- -0.156553
- British National Grid easting
- 528,207
- British National Grid northing
- 173,364
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
- E00022869
- Lower layer super output area
- Wandsworth 027B · E01004545
- Middle layer super output area
- Wandsworth 027 · E02000949
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
- 250
- Primary
- 135
- Secondary
- 32
- 1 m
Hornsby House School
Other independent school
- 77 m
Chestnut Grove Academy
Academy converter
- 226 m
Balham Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,602
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,839
- Anti social behaviour 824
- Vehicle crime 795
- Shoplifting 717
- Other theft 535
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.
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
98
within 5 km straight-line
OPEN DOOR SURGERY
47 BOUNDARIES ROAD, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8EU
ODS code H85087
190 m
BALHAM PARK SURGERY
236 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7AW
ODS code H85066
480 m
NIGHTINGALE PRACTICE
105 NIGHTINGALE LANE, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8NB
ODS code H85691
556 m
BALHAM HEALTH CENTRE
120 BEDFORD HILL, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 9HS
ODS code H85637
685 m
BEDFORD HILL FAMILY PRACTICE
120-124 BEDFORD HILL, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 9HS
ODS code H85009
685 m
THURLEIGH ROAD PRACTICE
88A THURLEIGH ROAD, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8TT
ODS code H85114
896 m
TOOTING BEC SURGERY
313 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7BA
ODS code H85664
984 m
BOLINGBROKE MEDICAL CENTRE
WAKEHURST ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 6BF
ODS code H85077
1.5 km
CLAPHAM PARK GROUP PRACTICE
72 CLARENCE AVENUE, LONDON, SW4 8JP
ODS code G85109
1.7 km
BATTERSEA RISE GROUP PRACTICE
17 BATTERSEA RISE, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 1HG
ODS code H85049
1.8 km
EDITH CAVELL PRACTICE
41A-41C STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 4TP
ODS code G85724
2.3 km
THE STREATHAM HILL GROUP PRACTICE
6 LEIGHAM COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW16 2PG
ODS code G85662
2.3 km
EARLSFIELD SURGERY
2-4 STEERFORTH STREET, LONDON, SW18 4HH
ODS code H85041
2.3 km
BROCKLEBANK HEALTH CENTRE
233 GARRATT LANE, WANDSWORTH, LONDON, SW18 4DU
ODS code H85048
2.3 km
HAIDER PRACTICE
162 ST JOHN'S HILL, WANDSWORTH, LONDON, SW11 1SW
ODS code H85075
2.3 km
ST JOHNS HILL SURGERY
ENTRANCE B, 162 ST JOHN'S HILL, WANDSWORTH, LONDON, SW11 1SW
ODS code H85659
2.3 km
LAVENDER HILL GROUP PRACTICE
19 POUNTNEY ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 5TU
ODS code H85069
2.4 km
GRAFTON MEDICAL PARTNERS
TREVELYAN HOUSE, 160 TOOTING HIGH STREET, LONDON, SW17 0RT
ODS code Y02423
2.4 km
PRENTIS MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PRENTIS ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 1XU
ODS code G85021
2.4 km
GRAFTON SQUARE SURGERY
8B GRAFTON SQUARE, LONDON, SW4 0DE
ODS code G85674
2.5 km
Showing 20 of 98 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Balham Station
TMU · Balham
- 0.2 miles
Balham Station
TMU · Balham
- 0.2 miles
Balham Station
BCT · Balham
- 0.2 miles
Balham Underground Station
MET · Balham
- 0.2 miles
Hildreth Street Market
BCT · Balham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wandsworth 027B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,165 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 0
- 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
6,602 published events cover 12 months, averaging 550.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,839 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.