Schools
349 open schools are in scope, including 150 primary and 40 secondary schools. Fairley House School is the nearest published school at 88 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW1V 2RT
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
- SW1V
- Postcode sector
- SW1V 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW1V 2RT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 1985
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW1V
- Postcode sector
- SW1V 2
- Latitude
- 51.490583
- Longitude
- -0.132753
- British National Grid easting
- 529,731
- British National Grid northing
- 178,501
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
- E00024028
- Lower layer super output area
- Westminster 021E · E01004747
- Middle layer super output area
- Westminster 021 · E02000980
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 SW1V
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 349
- Primary
- 150
- Secondary
- 40
- 88 m
Fairley House School
Other independent special school
- 143 m
Westminster Under School
Other independent school
- 185 m
Millbank Gardens Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 18,090
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,099
- Theft from the person 3,744
- Other theft 2,408
- Anti social behaviour 1,908
- Shoplifting 1,197
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 58
- Postcode households
- 49
- Residents per household
- 1.2
- SW1V 2 residents
- 5,635
29 female, 29 male
Age bands in SW1V 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 38.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.4%
527 residents
612 residents
2,138 residents
1,467 residents
797 residents
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SW1V 2 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
127
within 5 km
PIMLICO HEALTH AT THE MARVEN SURGERY
46-50 LUPUS STREET, WESTMINSTER, LONDON, SW1V 3EB
ODS code E87034
421 m
MILLBANK MEDICAL CENTRE
MEDICAL CENTRE BUILDING, 20 PAGE STREET, LONDON, SW1P 4EN
ODS code E87739
422 m
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
29 UPPER TACHBROOK STREET, LONDON, SW1V 1SN
ODS code E87002
503 m
THE DR HICKEY SURGERY FOR THE HOMELESS
3-7 ARNEWAY STREET, LONDON, SW1P 2BG
ODS code E87740
582 m
GRAY'S INN MEDICAL GROUP VAUXHALL
8 JONATHAN STREET, KENNINGTON, LONDON, SE11 5NH
ODS code G85102
1.0 km
BELGRAVIA SURGERY
24 ECCLESTON STREET, BELGRAVIA, LONDON, SW1W 9PY
ODS code E87005
1.2 km
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 13 PIMLICO ROAD, LONDON, SW1W 8NA
ODS code E87753
1.3 km
MAWBEY GROUP PRACTICE
MAWBREY BROUGH HEALTH CENTRE, 39 WILCOX CLOSE, LONDON, SW8 2UD
ODS code G85130
1.4 km
THE SOUTH LAMBETH RD PRACTICE
1 SELWAY HOUSE, 272 SOUTH LAMBETH ROAD, LONDON, SW8 1UL
ODS code G85086
1.7 km
WATERLOO HEALTH CENTRE
114-118 LOWER MARSH, WATERLOO, LONDON, SE1 7AE
ODS code G85136
1.7 km
ROYAL HOSPITAL CHELSEA
ROYAL HOSPITAL ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW3 4SR
ODS code E87711
1.7 km
HURLEY AND RIVERSIDE PRACTICES
EBENEZER HOUSE, KENNINGTON LANE, LONDON, SE11 4HJ
ODS code G85053
1.8 km
KNIGHTSBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
71-75 PAVILION ROAD, LONDON, SW1X 0ET
ODS code E87738
2.1 km
BINFIELD ROAD SURGERY
1 BINFIELD ROAD, LONDON, SW4 6TB
ODS code G85123
2.1 km
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code G85673
2.2 km
STOCKWELLBEING AH
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code Y05187
2.2 km
NEXUS HEALTH GROUP
PRINCESS STREET GROUP PRACTICE, 2 PRINCESS STREET, LONDON, SE1 6JP
ODS code G85034
2.2 km
VASSALL MEDICAL CENTRE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 89 VASSALL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6NA
ODS code G85073
2.2 km
THE GRANTHAM PRACTICE
275-277 CLAPHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9BH
ODS code Y00020
2.3 km
HEALTH PARTNERS AT VIOLET MELCHETT
30 FLOOD WALK, LONDON, SW3 5RR
ODS code E87004
2.4 km
Showing 20 of 127 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
Pimlico Station
BCT · Pimlico
- 0.0 miles
Pimlico Station
BCT · Pimlico
- 0.1 miles
Pimlico Station
TMU · Pimlico
- 0.1 miles
Pimlico Station
BCT · Pimlico
- 0.1 miles
Pimlico Station
TMU · Pimlico
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Westminster 021E, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,909 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
- 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
Recorded crime
18,090 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,507.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,099 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.