Schools
232 open schools are in scope, including 136 primary and 30 secondary schools. Silburn Reid is the nearest published school at 70 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW16 3HU
Knight's Hill · Lambeth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Knight's Hill
- Local authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Dulwich and West Norwood
- Postcode district
- SW16
- Postcode sector
- SW16 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW16 3HU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1983
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW16
- Postcode sector
- SW16 3
- Latitude
- 51.423507
- Longitude
- -0.111481
- British National Grid easting
- 531,400
- British National Grid northing
- 171,080
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
- E00015547
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 031E · E01003087
- Middle layer super output area
- Lambeth 031 · E02000648
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 232
- Primary
- 136
- Secondary
- 30
- 70 m
Silburn Reid
Miscellaneous
- 157 m
Crown Lane Primary School
Community school
- 436 m
St Joseph's College
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,755
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,724
- Anti social behaviour 871
- Vehicle crime 579
- Other theft 512
- Shoplifting 455
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SW16 3 residents
- 9,584
Age bands in SW16 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.9%
1,512 residents
940 residents
2,709 residents
2,398 residents
1,643 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
80
within 5 km straight-line
VALLEY ROAD SURGERY
139 VALLEY ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2XT
ODS code G85044
791 m
NORTH WOOD GROUP PRACTICE
CROWN DALE MEDICAL CENTRE, 61 CROWN DALE, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 3NY
ODS code G85022
909 m
KNIGHTS HILL SURGERY SUITE 1
SUITE 1, WEST NORWOOD HEALTH & LC, WEST NORWOOD, LONDON, SE27 0DF
ODS code G85047
1.0 km
STREATHAM COMMON PRACTICE
293 STREATHAM HIGH ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 3NP
ODS code G85014
1.2 km
AT MEDICS STREATHAM PCN EA HUB
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE, 2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code Y05162
1.4 km
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85002
1.4 km
THE EXCHANGE SURGERY
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85647
1.4 km
PRENTIS MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PRENTIS ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 1XU
ODS code G85021
1.5 km
THE DEERBROOK SURGERY
216 NORWOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE27 9AW
ODS code G85129
1.6 km
FAIRVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
69 FAIRVIEW ROAD, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 5PX
ODS code H83624
1.7 km
THE STREATHAM HILL GROUP PRACTICE
6 LEIGHAM COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW16 2PG
ODS code G85662
1.9 km
THE VALE SURGERY
STREATHAM VALE, LONDON, SW16 5SE
ODS code G85096
1.9 km
PAXTON GREEN GROUP PRACTICE
PAXTON GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, 1 ALLEYN PARK, LONDON, SE21 8AU
ODS code G85039
1.9 km
THE OLD DAIRY HEALTH CENTRE
19B CROXTED ROAD, WEST DULWICH, LONDON, SE21 8SZ
ODS code G85706
2.0 km
STREATHAM PARK SURGERY
91 MITCHAM LANE, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 6LY
ODS code H85052
2.1 km
EDITH CAVELL PRACTICE
41A-41C STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 4TP
ODS code G85724
2.2 km
UPPER NORWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
130 CHURCH ROAD, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 2NT
ODS code H83005
2.2 km
NORBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2B POLLARDS HILL NORTH, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 4NL
ODS code H83009
2.3 km
PALACE ROAD SURGERY
1 PALACE ROAD, STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 3DY
ODS code G85041
2.3 km
MERSHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
30 NORBURY ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8JN
ODS code H83609
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 80 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ryecroft Road
BCT · West Norwood
- 0.1 miles
Ryecroft Road
BCT · West Norwood
- 0.1 miles
Streatham Comn N/Leigham Ct Rd
BCT · Streatham Common
- 0.1 miles
Leigham Court Road / Streatham Common
BCT · Streatham Common
- 0.1 miles
Leigham Court Road / Streatham Common
BCT · Streatham Common
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 031E, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
3,061 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
5,755 published events cover 12 months, averaging 479.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,724 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.