Schools
244 open schools are in scope, including 139 primary and 32 secondary schools. The Livity School is the nearest published school at 358 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW16 1BX
Streatham St Leonard's · Lambeth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Local authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Streatham and Croydon North
- Postcode district
- SW16
- Postcode sector
- SW16 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW16 1BX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW16
- Postcode sector
- SW16 1
- Latitude
- 51.436108
- Longitude
- -0.128443
- British National Grid easting
- 530,185
- British National Grid northing
- 172,451
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lambeth · E09000022
- Electoral ward
- Streatham St Leonard's · E05014115
- Parish or community
- E43000212
- Westminster constituency
- Streatham and Croydon North · E14001527
- Output area
- E00015737
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 029B · E01003117
- Middle layer super output area
- Lambeth 029 · E02000646
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 SW16
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| De Montfort Court, Flat 7, Streatham High Road, London, SW16 1BX | 15 May 2015 | £425,000 |
| De Montfort Court, Flat 4, Streatham High Road, London, SW16 1BX | 7 October 2013 | £325,000 |
| De Montfort Court, Flat 5, Streatham High Road, London, SW16 1BX | 22 December 2004 | £150,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 244
- Primary
- 139
- Secondary
- 32
- 358 m
The Livity School
Community special school
- 487 m
Maypole School (Leigham Court)
Other independent special school
- 578 m
Burlington House School Tooting
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,163
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,172
- Anti social behaviour 1,114
- Vehicle crime 632
- Other theft 625
- Shoplifting 546
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 21
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- SW16 1 residents
- 11,537
16 female, 5 male
Age bands in SW16 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 40%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.3%
1,951 residents
1,127 residents
4,813 residents
2,772 residents
1,360 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SW16 1 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
94
within 5 km
THE STREATHAM HILL GROUP PRACTICE
6 LEIGHAM COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW16 2PG
ODS code G85662
197 m
AT MEDICS STREATHAM PCN EA HUB
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE, 2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code Y05162
426 m
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85002
426 m
THE EXCHANGE SURGERY
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85647
426 m
EDITH CAVELL PRACTICE
41A-41C STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 4TP
ODS code G85724
621 m
PRENTIS MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PRENTIS ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 1XU
ODS code G85021
636 m
PALACE ROAD SURGERY
1 PALACE ROAD, STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 3DY
ODS code G85041
1.0 km
VALLEY ROAD SURGERY
139 VALLEY ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2XT
ODS code G85044
1.0 km
BALHAM HEALTH CENTRE
120 BEDFORD HILL, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 9HS
ODS code H85637
1.5 km
BEDFORD HILL FAMILY PRACTICE
120-124 BEDFORD HILL, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 9HS
ODS code H85009
1.5 km
STREATHAM PARK SURGERY
91 MITCHAM LANE, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 6LY
ODS code H85052
1.6 km
THE DEERBROOK SURGERY
216 NORWOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE27 9AW
ODS code G85129
1.6 km
KNIGHTS HILL SURGERY SUITE 1
SUITE 1, WEST NORWOOD HEALTH & LC, WEST NORWOOD, LONDON, SE27 0DF
ODS code G85047
1.7 km
CLAPHAM PARK GROUP PRACTICE
72 CLARENCE AVENUE, LONDON, SW4 8JP
ODS code G85109
1.8 km
BRIXTON HILL GROUP PRACTICE
SURGERY, 22 RALEIGH GARDENS, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW2 1AE
ODS code G85025
1.9 km
STREATHAM COMMON PRACTICE
293 STREATHAM HIGH ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 3NP
ODS code G85014
1.9 km
BALHAM PARK SURGERY
236 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7AW
ODS code H85066
2.0 km
OPEN DOOR SURGERY
47 BOUNDARIES ROAD, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8EU
ODS code H85087
2.0 km
TOOTING BEC SURGERY
313 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7BA
ODS code H85664
2.1 km
GREYSWOOD PRACTICE
66 EASTWOOD STREET, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 6PX
ODS code H85011
2.2 km
Showing 20 of 94 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
Mount Ephraim Road
BCT · Streatham
- 0.0 miles
Mount Ephraim Road
BCT · Streatham
- 0.1 miles
Leigham Court Road
BCT · Streatham Hill
- 0.1 miles
Leigham Court Road
BCT · Streatham Hill
- 0.1 miles
Kingscourt Road
BCT · Streatham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 029B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,252 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
7,163 published events cover 12 months, averaging 596.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,172 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.