Schools
358 open schools are in scope, including 155 primary and 39 secondary schools. The Grey Coat Hospital is the nearest published school at 7 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW1P 2HF
Vincent Square · Westminster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Vincent Square
- Local authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster
- Postcode district
- SW1P
- Postcode sector
- SW1P 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW1P 2HF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW1P
- Postcode sector
- SW1P 2
- Latitude
- 51.495996
- Longitude
- -0.134419
- British National Grid easting
- 529,600
- British National Grid northing
- 179,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Westminster · E09000033
- Electoral ward
- Vincent Square · E05013807
- Parish or community
- E43000236
- Westminster constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster · E14001172
- Output area
- E00023948
- Lower layer super output area
- Westminster 020A · E01004731
- Middle layer super output area
- Westminster 020 · E02000979
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 SW1P
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 358
- Primary
- 155
- Secondary
- 39
- 7 m
The Grey Coat Hospital
Academy converter
- 110 m
Burdett-Coutts and Townshend Foundation CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 278 m
St Matthew's School, Westminster
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 24,289
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Theft from the person 5,798
- Violence and sexual offences 4,823
- Other theft 4,126
- Anti social behaviour 2,174
- Shoplifting 1,596
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SW1P 2 residents
- 3,249
Age bands in SW1P 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 14.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.7%
303 residents
450 residents
1,047 residents
820 residents
453 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
129
within 5 km straight-line
THE DR HICKEY SURGERY FOR THE HOMELESS
3-7 ARNEWAY STREET, LONDON, SW1P 2BG
ODS code E87740
206 m
MILLBANK MEDICAL CENTRE
MEDICAL CENTRE BUILDING, 20 PAGE STREET, LONDON, SW1P 4EN
ODS code E87739
365 m
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
29 UPPER TACHBROOK STREET, LONDON, SW1V 1SN
ODS code E87002
466 m
PIMLICO HEALTH AT THE MARVEN SURGERY
46-50 LUPUS STREET, WESTMINSTER, LONDON, SW1V 3EB
ODS code E87034
871 m
BELGRAVIA SURGERY
24 ECCLESTON STREET, BELGRAVIA, LONDON, SW1W 9PY
ODS code E87005
986 m
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 13 PIMLICO ROAD, LONDON, SW1W 8NA
ODS code E87753
1.3 km
GRAY'S INN MEDICAL GROUP VAUXHALL
8 JONATHAN STREET, KENNINGTON, LONDON, SE11 5NH
ODS code G85102
1.3 km
WATERLOO HEALTH CENTRE
114-118 LOWER MARSH, WATERLOO, LONDON, SE1 7AE
ODS code G85136
1.5 km
KNIGHTSBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
71-75 PAVILION ROAD, LONDON, SW1X 0ET
ODS code E87738
1.8 km
ROYAL HOSPITAL CHELSEA
ROYAL HOSPITAL ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW3 4SR
ODS code E87711
1.9 km
MAWBEY GROUP PRACTICE
MAWBREY BROUGH HEALTH CENTRE, 39 WILCOX CLOSE, LONDON, SW8 2UD
ODS code G85130
2.0 km
HURLEY AND RIVERSIDE PRACTICES
EBENEZER HOUSE, KENNINGTON LANE, LONDON, SE11 4HJ
ODS code G85053
2.0 km
GREAT CHAPEL STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
4TH FLOOR, SOHO CENTRE FOR HEALTH, 1 FRITH STREET, LONDON, W1D 3HZ
ODS code E87772
2.1 km
SOHO CENTRE FOR HEALTH AND CARE
1ST FLOOR, 30 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W1D 3QS
ODS code E87069
2.1 km
SOHO SQUARE GENERAL PRACTICE
1ST FLOOR, 1 FRITH STREET, LONDON, W1D 3HZ
ODS code E87714
2.1 km
KINGS COLLEGE HEALTH CENTRE
3RD FLOOR, BUSH HOUSE, SOUTH EAST WING, 300 STRAND, LONDON, WC2B 4PJ
ODS code E87768
2.2 km
COVENT GARDEN MEDICAL CENTRE
47 SHORTS GARDENS, LONDON, WC2H 9AA
ODS code E87045
2.2 km
MAYFAIR MEDICAL CENTRE
3-5 WEIGHHOUSE STREET, LONDON, W1K 5LS
ODS code E87648
2.2 km
BLACKFRIARS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BLACKFRIARS MEDICAL PRACT, 45 COLOMBO STREET, LONDON, SE1 8EE
ODS code G85642
2.2 km
NEXUS HEALTH GROUP
PRINCESS STREET GROUP PRACTICE, 2 PRINCESS STREET, LONDON, SE1 6JP
ODS code G85034
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 129 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Strutton Ground
BCT · Westminster
- 0.0 miles
Strutton Ground
BCT · Westminster
- 0.1 miles
St James's Park Station
BCT · St Jamess Park
- 0.1 miles
St James's Park Station
BCT · St Jamess Park
- 0.1 miles
Westminster City Hall
BCT · Westminster
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Westminster 020A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,289 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
24,289 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2,024.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Theft from the person with 5,798 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.