Property market
The five-year median is £618,000 from 7 recorded sales in SW16 5AB. 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 5AB
Streatham Common & Vale · 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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW16 5AB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW16
- Postcode sector
- SW16 5
- Latitude
- 51.418218
- Longitude
- -0.138392
- British National Grid easting
- 529,544
- British National Grid northing
- 170,444
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lambeth · E09000022
- Electoral ward
- Streatham Common & Vale · E05014112
- Parish or community
- E43000212
- Westminster constituency
- Streatham and Croydon North · E14001527
- Output area
- E00015853
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 035E · E01003146
- Middle layer super output area
- Lambeth 035 · E02000652
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
33 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Carnforth Road, London, SW16 5AB | 12 December 2024 | £775,000 |
| 6, Carnforth Road, London, SW16 5AB | 6 August 2024 | £562,000 |
| 11, Carnforth Road, London, SW16 5AB | 23 June 2023 | £605,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 221
- Primary
- 122
- Secondary
- 27
- 491 m
Granton Primary School
Community school
- 495 m
Immanuel and St Andrew Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 649 m
Woodmansterne School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,033
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,294
- Anti social behaviour 973
- Vehicle crime 697
- Shoplifting 558
- Other theft 555
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 111
- Postcode households
- 32
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- SW16 5 residents
- 18,716
60 female, 51 male
Age bands in SW16 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 36.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.9%
3,326 residents
2,083 residents
6,669 residents
4,371 residents
2,006 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SW16 5 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
75
within 5 km
THE VALE SURGERY
STREATHAM VALE, LONDON, SW16 5SE
ODS code G85096
163 m
GREYSWOOD PRACTICE
66 EASTWOOD STREET, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 6PX
ODS code H85011
465 m
STREATHAM PARK SURGERY
91 MITCHAM LANE, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 6LY
ODS code H85052
718 m
STREATHAM COMMON PRACTICE
293 STREATHAM HIGH ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 3NP
ODS code G85014
819 m
FAIRVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
69 FAIRVIEW ROAD, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 5PX
ODS code H83624
1.3 km
PRENTIS MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PRENTIS ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 1XU
ODS code G85021
1.5 km
TOOTING SOUTH MEDICAL CENTRE
22 OTTERBURN STREET, TOOTING, LONDON, SW17 9HQ
ODS code H85680
1.7 km
VALLEY ROAD SURGERY
139 VALLEY ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2XT
ODS code G85044
1.8 km
AT MEDICS STREATHAM PCN EA HUB
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE, 2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code Y05162
1.8 km
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85002
1.8 km
THE EXCHANGE SURGERY
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85647
1.8 km
FIGGES MARSH SURGERY
182 LONDON ROAD, MITCHAM, CR4 3LD
ODS code H85090
1.8 km
WIDE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
WIDE WAY, MITCHAM, CR4 1BP
ODS code H85029
1.8 km
NORBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2B POLLARDS HILL NORTH, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 4NL
ODS code H83009
1.9 km
TAMWORTH HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
341 TAMWORTH LANE, MITCHAM, CR4 1DL
ODS code H85033
2.0 km
MITCHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
55 MORTIMER ROAD, MITCHAM, CR4 3HS
ODS code H85078
2.2 km
THE STREATHAM HILL GROUP PRACTICE
6 LEIGHAM COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW16 2PG
ODS code G85662
2.3 km
GRAFTON MEDICAL PARTNERS
TREVELYAN HOUSE, 160 TOOTING HIGH STREET, LONDON, SW17 0RT
ODS code Y02423
2.4 km
TOOTING BEC SURGERY
313 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7BA
ODS code H85664
2.4 km
LEANDER FAMILY PRACTICE
949 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6JE
ODS code H83042
2.6 km
Showing 20 of 75 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
- 0.1 miles
Streatham Common Station
BCT · Streatham Vale
- 0.1 miles
Streatham Common Station
BCT · Streatham Vale
- 0.1 miles
Streatham Common Rail Station
RLY · Streatham Vale
- 0.1 miles
Streatham Common
RSE · Streatham Vale
- 0.1 miles
Streatham Common
RSE · Streatham Vale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 035E, 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
10,595 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 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.
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
221 open schools are in scope, including 122 primary and 27 secondary schools. Granton Primary School is the nearest published school at 491 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
7,033 published events cover 12 months, averaging 586.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,294 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.