Property market
The five-year median is £735,000 from 1 recorded sale in SW17 8LR. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Wandsworth is £680,105 in June 2026, down 5.2% year on year.
SW17 8LR
Tooting Bec · Wandsworth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Ward
- Tooting Bec
- Local authority
- Wandsworth
- Constituency
- Tooting
- Postcode district
- SW17
- Postcode sector
- SW17 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW17 8LR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW17
- Postcode sector
- SW17 8
- Latitude
- 51.431513
- Longitude
- -0.163719
- British National Grid easting
- 527,746
- British National Grid northing
- 171,878
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Wandsworth · E09000032
- Electoral ward
- Tooting Bec · E05014023
- Parish or community
- E43000222
- Westminster constituency
- Tooting · E14001550
- Output area
- E00023260
- Lower layer super output area
- Wandsworth 032C · E01004612
- Middle layer super output area
- Wandsworth 032 · E02000954
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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Defoe Place, London, SW17 8LR | 14 September 2023 | £735,000 |
| 4, Defoe Place, London, SW17 8LR | 22 August 2005 | £174,200 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 232
- Primary
- 121
- Secondary
- 29
- 89 m
Al Risalah Boys' School
Other independent school
- 105 m
Al Risalah Secondary School
Other independent school
- 309 m
Gatton (VA) Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,901
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,540
- Anti social behaviour 1,007
- Shoplifting 744
- Other theft 670
- Vehicle crime 618
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 19
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 3.8
- SW17 8 residents
- 18,484
11 female, 8 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SW17 8 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
80
within 5 km
TOOTING BEC SURGERY
313 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7BA
ODS code H85664
614 m
GRAFTON MEDICAL PARTNERS
TREVELYAN HOUSE, 160 TOOTING HIGH STREET, LONDON, SW17 0RT
ODS code Y02423
877 m
TOOTING SOUTH MEDICAL CENTRE
22 OTTERBURN STREET, TOOTING, LONDON, SW17 9HQ
ODS code H85680
1.1 km
BALHAM PARK SURGERY
236 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7AW
ODS code H85066
1.1 km
OPEN DOOR SURGERY
47 BOUNDARIES ROAD, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8EU
ODS code H85087
1.4 km
BALHAM HEALTH CENTRE
120 BEDFORD HILL, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 9HS
ODS code H85637
1.5 km
BEDFORD HILL FAMILY PRACTICE
120-124 BEDFORD HILL, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 9HS
ODS code H85009
1.5 km
COLLIERS WOOD SURGERY
58 HIGH STREET COLLIERS WOOD, COLLIERS WOOD, LONDON, SW19 2BY
ODS code H85649
1.5 km
STREATHAM PARK SURGERY
91 MITCHAM LANE, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 6LY
ODS code H85052
1.8 km
RIVERHOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
EAST ROAD, WIMBLEDON, LONDON, SW19 1YG
ODS code H85092
1.8 km
EARLSFIELD SURGERY
2-4 STEERFORTH STREET, LONDON, SW18 4HH
ODS code H85041
1.8 km
GREYSWOOD PRACTICE
66 EASTWOOD STREET, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 6PX
ODS code H85011
1.9 km
NIGHTINGALE PRACTICE
105 NIGHTINGALE LANE, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8NB
ODS code H85691
2.0 km
MERTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
12-17 ABBEY PARADE, SOUTH WIMBLEDON, LONDON, SW19 1DG
ODS code H85634
2.3 km
FIGGES MARSH SURGERY
182 LONDON ROAD, MITCHAM, CR4 3LD
ODS code H85090
2.3 km
PRENTIS MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PRENTIS ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 1XU
ODS code G85021
2.3 km
MITCHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
55 MORTIMER ROAD, MITCHAM, CR4 3HS
ODS code H85078
2.4 km
THURLEIGH ROAD PRACTICE
88A THURLEIGH ROAD, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8TT
ODS code H85114
2.4 km
THE VALE SURGERY
STREATHAM VALE, LONDON, SW16 5SE
ODS code G85096
2.5 km
AT MEDICS STREATHAM PCN EA HUB
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE, 2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code Y05162
2.6 km
Showing 20 of 80 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
- 0.0 miles
Hebdon Road
BCT · Upper Tooting
- 0.1 miles
Lynwood Road (SW17)
BCT · Upper Tooting
- 0.1 miles
Broadwater Road
BCT · Tooting Graveney
- 0.1 miles
Lynwood Road (SW17)
BCT · Upper Tooting
- 0.2 miles
Broadwater Road
BCT · Tooting Graveney
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wandsworth 032C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,678 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
232 open schools are in scope, including 121 primary and 29 secondary schools. Al Risalah Boys' School is the nearest published school at 89 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
7,901 published events cover 12 months, averaging 658.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,540 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.