Property market
The five-year median is £550,000 from 11 recorded sales in SW17 8RB. 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 8RB
South Balham · Wandsworth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- 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 8RB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW17
- Postcode sector
- SW17 8
- Latitude
- 51.437243
- Longitude
- -0.154683
- British National Grid easting
- 528,358
- British National Grid northing
- 172,531
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
- E00022559
- Lower layer super output area
- Wandsworth 029B · E01004488
- Middle layer super output area
- Wandsworth 029 · E02000951
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
75 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Flat C, Huron Road, London, SW17 8RB | 10 April 2026 | £380,000 |
| 42, Flat 3, Huron Road, London, SW17 8RB | 27 June 2025 | £550,000 |
| 36, Flat C, Huron Road, London, SW17 8RB | 18 December 2024 | £490,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 244
- Primary
- 131
- Secondary
- 31
- 206 m
Rutherford House School
Free schools
- 263 m
St Anselm's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 343 m
Eveline Day School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,785
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,211
- Anti social behaviour 954
- Shoplifting 937
- Vehicle crime 739
- Other theft 643
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 117
- Postcode households
- 42
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- SW17 8 residents
- 18,484
65 female, 52 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 0.6% 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
90
within 5 km
TOOTING BEC SURGERY
313 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7BA
ODS code H85664
306 m
BALHAM PARK SURGERY
236 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7AW
ODS code H85066
367 m
BALHAM HEALTH CENTRE
120 BEDFORD HILL, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 9HS
ODS code H85637
559 m
BEDFORD HILL FAMILY PRACTICE
120-124 BEDFORD HILL, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 9HS
ODS code H85009
559 m
OPEN DOOR SURGERY
47 BOUNDARIES ROAD, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8EU
ODS code H85087
662 m
NIGHTINGALE PRACTICE
105 NIGHTINGALE LANE, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8NB
ODS code H85691
1.4 km
STREATHAM PARK SURGERY
91 MITCHAM LANE, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 6LY
ODS code H85052
1.7 km
THURLEIGH ROAD PRACTICE
88A THURLEIGH ROAD, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8TT
ODS code H85114
1.7 km
GRAFTON MEDICAL PARTNERS
TREVELYAN HOUSE, 160 TOOTING HIGH STREET, LONDON, SW17 0RT
ODS code Y02423
1.8 km
TOOTING SOUTH MEDICAL CENTRE
22 OTTERBURN STREET, TOOTING, LONDON, SW17 9HQ
ODS code H85680
1.8 km
PRENTIS MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PRENTIS ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 1XU
ODS code G85021
1.9 km
THE STREATHAM HILL GROUP PRACTICE
6 LEIGHAM COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW16 2PG
ODS code G85662
2.0 km
AT MEDICS STREATHAM PCN EA HUB
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE, 2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code Y05162
2.0 km
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85002
2.0 km
THE EXCHANGE SURGERY
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85647
2.0 km
GREYSWOOD PRACTICE
66 EASTWOOD STREET, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 6PX
ODS code H85011
2.1 km
CLAPHAM PARK GROUP PRACTICE
72 CLARENCE AVENUE, LONDON, SW4 8JP
ODS code G85109
2.1 km
EDITH CAVELL PRACTICE
41A-41C STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 4TP
ODS code G85724
2.1 km
EARLSFIELD SURGERY
2-4 STEERFORTH STREET, LONDON, SW18 4HH
ODS code H85041
2.3 km
BOLINGBROKE MEDICAL CENTRE
WAKEHURST ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 6BF
ODS code H85077
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 90 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
Upper Tooting Park / Balham High Road
BCT · Tooting Bec
- 0.1 miles
Upper Tooting Park / Balham High Road
BCT · Tooting Bec
- 0.2 miles
St Anselm's Church
BCT · Tooting Bec
- 0.2 miles
Tooting Bec Station
BCT · Tooting Bec
- 0.2 miles
Tooting Bec Underground Station
PLT · Tooting Bec
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wandsworth 029B, 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
23,051 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 2
- 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
244 open schools are in scope, including 131 primary and 31 secondary schools. Rutherford House School is the nearest published school at 206 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
7,785 published events cover 12 months, averaging 648.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,211 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.