Schools
358 open schools are in scope, including 147 primary and 40 secondary schools. Eaton House School is the nearest published school at 89 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW1X 8LX
Royal Hospital · Kensington and Chelsea · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Royal Hospital
- Local authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham
- Postcode district
- SW1X
- Postcode sector
- SW1X 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW1X 8LX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 1984
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW1X
- Postcode sector
- SW1X 8
- Latitude
- 51.494540
- Longitude
- -0.156088
- British National Grid easting
- 528,100
- British National Grid northing
- 178,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Kensington and Chelsea · E09000020
- Electoral ward
- Royal Hospital · E05009403
- Parish or community
- E43000210
- Westminster constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham · E14001160
- Output area
- E00014368
- Lower layer super output area
- Kensington and Chelsea 012C · E01002859
- Middle layer super output area
- Kensington and Chelsea 012 · E02000588
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 SW1X
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 358
- Primary
- 147
- Secondary
- 40
- 89 m
Eaton House School
Other independent school
- 92 m
Inchbald School of Design
Miscellaneous
- 129 m
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 14,951
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,544
- Theft from the person 2,502
- Other theft 2,390
- Anti social behaviour 1,668
- Shoplifting 1,664
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SW1X 8 residents
- 1,397
Age bands in SW1X 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
109 residents
122 residents
312 residents
377 residents
255 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
141
within 5 km straight-line
KNIGHTSBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
71-75 PAVILION ROAD, LONDON, SW1X 0ET
ODS code E87738
473 m
BELGRAVIA SURGERY
24 ECCLESTON STREET, BELGRAVIA, LONDON, SW1W 9PY
ODS code E87005
527 m
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 13 PIMLICO ROAD, LONDON, SW1W 8NA
ODS code E87753
544 m
ROYAL HOSPITAL CHELSEA
ROYAL HOSPITAL ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW3 4SR
ODS code E87711
799 m
HEALTH PARTNERS AT VIOLET MELCHETT
30 FLOOD WALK, LONDON, SW3 5RR
ODS code E87004
1.1 km
THE CHELSEA PRACTICE
43 CHELSEA MANOR STREET, LONDON, SW3 5DD
ODS code E87665
1.1 km
IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTH CENTRE
40 PRINCES GARDENS, LONDON, SW7 1LY
ODS code E87677
1.2 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
29 UPPER TACHBROOK STREET, LONDON, SW1V 1SN
ODS code E87002
1.2 km
PIMLICO HEALTH AT THE MARVEN SURGERY
46-50 LUPUS STREET, WESTMINSTER, LONDON, SW1V 3EB
ODS code E87034
1.4 km
THE DR HICKEY SURGERY FOR THE HOMELESS
3-7 ARNEWAY STREET, LONDON, SW1P 2BG
ODS code E87740
1.7 km
STANHOPE MEWS SURGERY
7 STANHOPE MEWS WEST, LONDON, SW7 5RB
ODS code E87013
1.8 km
MILLBANK MEDICAL CENTRE
MEDICAL CENTRE BUILDING, 20 PAGE STREET, LONDON, SW1P 4EN
ODS code E87739
1.8 km
ROSARY GARDEN SURGERY
45 ROSARY GARDENS, LONDON, SW7 4NQ
ODS code E87048
1.9 km
THE SURGERY
7 KYNANCE PLACE, LONDON, SW7 4QS
ODS code E87702
2.0 km
THE GOOD PRACTICE
KINGS ROAD, LONDON, SW10 0LR
ODS code E87762
2.0 km
EMPEROR'S GATE SURGERY
FIRST FLOOR, 49 EMPERORS GATE, LONDON, SW7 4HJ
ODS code E87043
2.1 km
MAYFAIR MEDICAL CENTRE
3-5 WEIGHHOUSE STREET, LONDON, W1K 5LS
ODS code E87648
2.2 km
CONNAUGHT SQUARE PRACTICE
41 CONNAUGHT SQUARE, LONDON, W2 2HL
ODS code E87037
2.2 km
BATTERSEA FIELDS PRACTICE
3 AUSTIN ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 5JP
ODS code H85111
2.3 km
BRIDGE LANE GROUP PRACTICE
BRIDGE LANE HEALTH CENTRE, 20 BRIDGE LANE, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 3AD
ODS code H85045
2.4 km
Showing 20 of 141 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sloane Square
BCT · Sloane Square
- 0.1 miles
Sloane Street / Sloane Square Station
BCT · Brompton
- 0.1 miles
Eaton Square
BCT · Belgravia
- 0.1 miles
Sloane Square
BCT · Sloane Square
- 0.1 miles
Sloane Square
BCT · Sloane Square
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kensington and Chelsea 012C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,158 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
14,951 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,245.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,544 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.