Schools
244 open schools are in scope, including 133 primary and 31 secondary schools. Eveline Day School is the nearest published school at 64 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW17 8AB
South Balham · Wandsworth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- South Balham
- Local authority
- Wandsworth
- Constituency
- Tooting
- Postcode district
- SW17
- Postcode sector
- SW17 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW17 8AB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW17
- Postcode sector
- SW17 8
- Latitude
- 51.440550
- Longitude
- -0.153946
- British National Grid easting
- 528,400
- British National Grid northing
- 172,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Wandsworth · E09000032
- Electoral ward
- South Balham · E05014020
- Parish or community
- E43000222
- Westminster constituency
- Tooting · E14001550
- Output area
- E00022541
- Lower layer super output area
- Wandsworth 030B · E01004485
- Middle layer super output area
- Wandsworth 030 · E02000952
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 SW17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 244
- Primary
- 133
- Secondary
- 31
- 64 m
Eveline Day School
Other independent school
- 107 m
Ravenstone Primary School
Academy converter
- 189 m
Rutherford House School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,714
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,889
- Anti social behaviour 845
- Vehicle crime 765
- Shoplifting 732
- Other theft 561
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SW17 8 residents
- 18,484
Age bands in SW17 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 41.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.3%
2,693 residents
2,049 residents
7,338 residents
3,695 residents
1,820 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
90
within 5 km straight-line
BALHAM PARK SURGERY
236 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7AW
ODS code H85066
119 m
OPEN DOOR SURGERY
47 BOUNDARIES ROAD, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8EU
ODS code H85087
312 m
BEDFORD HILL FAMILY PRACTICE
120-124 BEDFORD HILL, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 9HS
ODS code H85009
344 m
TOOTING BEC SURGERY
313 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7BA
ODS code H85664
600 m
NIGHTINGALE PRACTICE
105 NIGHTINGALE LANE, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8NB
ODS code H85691
1.1 km
THURLEIGH ROAD PRACTICE
88A THURLEIGH ROAD, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8TT
ODS code H85114
1.4 km
CLAPHAM PARK GROUP PRACTICE
72 CLARENCE AVENUE, LONDON, SW4 8JP
ODS code G85109
1.8 km
THE STREATHAM HILL GROUP PRACTICE
6 LEIGHAM COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW16 2PG
ODS code G85662
1.9 km
PRENTIS MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PRENTIS ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 1XU
ODS code G85021
2.0 km
STREATHAM PARK SURGERY
91 MITCHAM LANE, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 6LY
ODS code H85052
2.0 km
BOLINGBROKE MEDICAL CENTRE
WAKEHURST ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 6BF
ODS code H85077
2.0 km
EDITH CAVELL PRACTICE
41A-41C STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 4TP
ODS code G85724
2.0 km
GRAFTON MEDICAL PARTNERS
TREVELYAN HOUSE, 160 TOOTING HIGH STREET, LONDON, SW17 0RT
ODS code Y02423
2.1 km
AT MEDICS STREATHAM PCN EA HUB
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE, 2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code Y05162
2.1 km
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85002
2.1 km
THE EXCHANGE SURGERY
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85647
2.1 km
TOOTING SOUTH MEDICAL CENTRE
22 OTTERBURN STREET, TOOTING, LONDON, SW17 9HQ
ODS code H85680
2.2 km
PALACE ROAD SURGERY
1 PALACE ROAD, STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 3DY
ODS code G85041
2.3 km
BATTERSEA RISE GROUP PRACTICE
17 BATTERSEA RISE, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 1HG
ODS code H85049
2.3 km
EARLSFIELD SURGERY
2-4 STEERFORTH STREET, LONDON, SW18 4HH
ODS code H85041
2.4 km
Showing 20 of 90 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Du Cane Court
BCT · Balham
- 0.1 miles
Du Cane Court
BCT · Balham
- 0.1 miles
Upper Tooting Park / Balham High Road
BCT · Tooting Bec
- 0.2 miles
Balham Station
BCT · Balham
- 0.2 miles
Upper Tooting Park / Balham High Road
BCT · Tooting Bec
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wandsworth 030B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,320 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
6,714 published events cover 12 months, averaging 559.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,889 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.