Schools
218 open schools are in scope, including 125 primary and 28 secondary schools. Woodmansterne School is the nearest published school at 474 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW16 5JE
Longthornton · Merton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Longthornton
- Local authority
- Merton
- Constituency
- Mitcham and Morden
- Postcode district
- SW16
- Postcode sector
- SW16 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW16 5JE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2001
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW16
- Postcode sector
- SW16 5
- Latitude
- 51.409581
- Longitude
- -0.140425
- British National Grid easting
- 529,427
- British National Grid northing
- 169,480
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Merton · E09000024
- Electoral ward
- Longthornton · E05013818
- Parish or community
- E43000214
- Westminster constituency
- Mitcham and Morden · E14001371
- Output area
- E00017267
- Lower layer super output area
- Merton 017A · E01003413
- Middle layer super output area
- Merton 017 · E02000705
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
- 218
- Primary
- 125
- Secondary
- 28
- 474 m
Woodmansterne School
Community school
- 563 m
Granton Primary School
Community school
- 649 m
Lonesome Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,075
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,099
- Anti social behaviour 863
- Vehicle crime 605
- Other theft 399
- Shoplifting 360
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SW16 5 residents
- 18,716
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
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
73
within 5 km straight-line
THE VALE SURGERY
STREATHAM VALE, LONDON, SW16 5SE
ODS code G85096
893 m
WIDE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
WIDE WAY, MITCHAM, CR4 1BP
ODS code H85029
959 m
TAMWORTH HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
341 TAMWORTH LANE, MITCHAM, CR4 1DL
ODS code H85033
1.0 km
FAIRVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
69 FAIRVIEW ROAD, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 5PX
ODS code H83624
1.1 km
GREYSWOOD PRACTICE
66 EASTWOOD STREET, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 6PX
ODS code H85011
1.1 km
NORBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2B POLLARDS HILL NORTH, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 4NL
ODS code H83009
1.4 km
STREATHAM COMMON PRACTICE
293 STREATHAM HIGH ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 3NP
ODS code G85014
1.4 km
FIGGES MARSH SURGERY
182 LONDON ROAD, MITCHAM, CR4 3LD
ODS code H85090
1.5 km
STREATHAM PARK SURGERY
91 MITCHAM LANE, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 6LY
ODS code H85052
1.7 km
MITCHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
55 MORTIMER ROAD, MITCHAM, CR4 3HS
ODS code H85078
1.9 km
LEANDER FAMILY PRACTICE
949 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6JE
ODS code H83042
2.0 km
TOOTING SOUTH MEDICAL CENTRE
22 OTTERBURN STREET, TOOTING, LONDON, SW17 9HQ
ODS code H85680
2.0 km
CRICKET GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
75-79 MILES ROAD, MITCHAM, CR4 3DA
ODS code H85038
2.4 km
PRENTIS MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PRENTIS ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 1XU
ODS code G85021
2.4 km
VALLEY ROAD SURGERY
139 VALLEY ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2XT
ODS code G85044
2.6 km
BRIGSTOCK MEDICAL PRACTICE
141 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JN
ODS code H83017
2.7 km
AT MEDICS STREATHAM PCN EA HUB
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE, 2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code Y05162
2.7 km
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85002
2.7 km
THE EXCHANGE SURGERY
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85647
2.7 km
GRAFTON MEDICAL PARTNERS
TREVELYAN HOUSE, 160 TOOTING HIGH STREET, LONDON, SW17 0RT
ODS code Y02423
2.8 km
Showing 20 of 73 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Longthornton Road
BCT · Mitcham
- 0.1 miles
Longthornton Road
BCT · Mitcham
- 0.1 miles
Streatham Park Cemetery
BCT · Streatham Vale
- 0.1 miles
Rowan Crescent
BCT · Streatham Vale
- 0.1 miles
Meopham Road / Woodstock Way
BCT · Streatham Vale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Merton 017A, 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
17,832 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
6,075 published events cover 12 months, averaging 506.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,099 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.