Property market
The five-year median is £410,000 from 2 recorded sales in SW16 2SH. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Lambeth is £548,034 in June 2026, down 3.3% year on year.
SW16 2SH
Knight's Hill · Lambeth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Ward
- Knight's Hill
- Local authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Dulwich and West Norwood
- Postcode district
- SW16
- Postcode sector
- SW16 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW16 2SH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW16
- Postcode sector
- SW16 2
- Latitude
- 51.429452
- Longitude
- -0.113235
- British National Grid easting
- 531,261
- British National Grid northing
- 171,738
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lambeth · E09000022
- Electoral ward
- Knight's Hill · E05014106
- Parish or community
- E43000212
- Westminster constituency
- Dulwich and West Norwood · E14001205
- Output area
- E00015572
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 030A · E01003083
- Middle layer super output area
- Lambeth 030 · E02000647
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
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 19, Chestnut Close, London, SW16 2SH | 17 November 2023 | £460,000 |
| 17, Chestnut Close, London, SW16 2SH | 13 May 2022 | £360,000 |
| 18, Chestnut Close, London, SW16 2SH | 29 May 2020 | £485,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 237
- Primary
- 137
- Secondary
- 29
- 478 m
Sunnyhill Primary School
Community school
- 574 m
Dunraven School
Academy converter
- 575 m
Julian's School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,178
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,087
- Anti social behaviour 1,075
- Shoplifting 709
- Vehicle crime 641
- Other theft 630
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- SW16 2 residents
- 16,272
9 female, 5 male
Age bands in SW16 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 41%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.7%
2,560 residents
1,536 residents
6,480 residents
3,698 residents
1,537 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SW16 2 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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
84
within 5 km
VALLEY ROAD SURGERY
139 VALLEY ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2XT
ODS code G85044
439 m
KNIGHTS HILL SURGERY SUITE 1
SUITE 1, WEST NORWOOD HEALTH & LC, WEST NORWOOD, LONDON, SE27 0DF
ODS code G85047
636 m
AT MEDICS STREATHAM PCN EA HUB
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE, 2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code Y05162
986 m
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85002
986 m
THE EXCHANGE SURGERY
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85647
986 m
THE DEERBROOK SURGERY
216 NORWOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE27 9AW
ODS code G85129
1.1 km
PRENTIS MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PRENTIS ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 1XU
ODS code G85021
1.2 km
THE STREATHAM HILL GROUP PRACTICE
6 LEIGHAM COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW16 2PG
ODS code G85662
1.3 km
NORTH WOOD GROUP PRACTICE
CROWN DALE MEDICAL CENTRE, 61 CROWN DALE, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 3NY
ODS code G85022
1.3 km
EDITH CAVELL PRACTICE
41A-41C STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 4TP
ODS code G85724
1.5 km
STREATHAM COMMON PRACTICE
293 STREATHAM HIGH ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 3NP
ODS code G85014
1.5 km
PALACE ROAD SURGERY
1 PALACE ROAD, STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 3DY
ODS code G85041
1.7 km
THE OLD DAIRY HEALTH CENTRE
19B CROXTED ROAD, WEST DULWICH, LONDON, SE21 8SZ
ODS code G85706
1.7 km
PAXTON GREEN GROUP PRACTICE
PAXTON GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, 1 ALLEYN PARK, LONDON, SE21 8AU
ODS code G85039
1.9 km
STREATHAM PARK SURGERY
91 MITCHAM LANE, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 6LY
ODS code H85052
2.0 km
THE VALE SURGERY
STREATHAM VALE, LONDON, SW16 5SE
ODS code G85096
2.1 km
FAIRVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
69 FAIRVIEW ROAD, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 5PX
ODS code H83624
2.2 km
BROCKWELL PARK SURGERY
117 NORWOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9AE
ODS code G85137
2.3 km
GREYSWOOD PRACTICE
66 EASTWOOD STREET, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 6PX
ODS code H85011
2.5 km
BRIXTON HILL GROUP PRACTICE
SURGERY, 22 RALEIGH GARDENS, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW2 1AE
ODS code G85025
2.6 km
Showing 20 of 84 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Julians Primary School
BCT · West Norwood
- 0.1 miles
Rockhampton Road
BCT · West Norwood
- 0.1 miles
St Peter's Gardens
BCT · West Norwood
- 0.1 miles
Julians Primary School
BCT · West Norwood
- 0.2 miles
St Peters Church (SW16)
BCT · West Norwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 030A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,750 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
Schools
237 open schools are in scope, including 137 primary and 29 secondary schools. Sunnyhill Primary School is the nearest published school at 478 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
7,178 published events cover 12 months, averaging 598.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,087 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.