Property market
The five-year median is £204,000 from 7 recorded sales in SW2 1BF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Lambeth is £548,034 in June 2026, down 3.3% year on year.
SW2 1BF
Brixton Rush Common · Lambeth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Ward
- Brixton Rush Common
- Local authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Clapham and Brixton Hill
- Postcode district
- SW2
- Postcode sector
- SW2 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW2 1BF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2008
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW2
- Postcode sector
- SW2 1
- Latitude
- 51.455425
- Longitude
- -0.115029
- British National Grid easting
- 531,062
- British National Grid northing
- 174,623
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lambeth · E09000022
- Electoral ward
- Brixton Rush Common · E05014097
- Parish or community
- E43000212
- Westminster constituency
- Clapham and Brixton Hill · E14001175
- Output area
- E00016048
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 016E · E01003176
- Middle layer super output area
- Lambeth 016 · E02000633
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 SW2
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Waterfall House, 49, Flat 6, Brixton Water Lane, London, SW2 1BF | 8 August 2025 | £196,000 |
| Waterfall House, 49, Flat 2, Brixton Water Lane, London, SW2 1BF | 28 March 2025 | £210,000 |
| Waterfall House, 49, Flat 16, Brixton Water Lane, London, SW2 1BF | 20 April 2023 | £255,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 301
- Primary
- 157
- Secondary
- 39
- 336 m
Trinity Academy
Free schools
- 337 m
Jubilee Primary School
Community school
- 337 m
South Bank University Sixth Form
Academy 16 to 19 sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13,940
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,795
- Anti social behaviour 1,609
- Other theft 1,221
- Theft from the person 1,214
- Shoplifting 1,084
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 31
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- SW2 1 residents
- 7,678
16 female, 15 male
Age bands in SW2 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 14.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 45.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.1%
963 residents
1,112 residents
3,493 residents
1,578 residents
546 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SW2 1 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
97
within 5 km
BRIXTON HILL GROUP PRACTICE
SURGERY, 22 RALEIGH GARDENS, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW2 1AE
ODS code G85025
499 m
HETHERINGTON AT THE PAVILION
9 BRIGHTON TERRACE, LONDON, SW9 8DJ
ODS code Y03063
697 m
LARC CLINIC (LA)
9 BRIGHTON TERRACE, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW9 8DJ
ODS code Y05163
697 m
HETHERINGTON GROUP PRACTICE
18 HETHERINGTON ROAD, LONDON, SW4 7NU
ODS code G85045
1.1 km
HERNE HILL GROUP PRACTICE
74 HERNE HILL, HERNE HILL, LONDON, SE24 9QP
ODS code G85016
1.1 km
SANDMERE PRACTICE
10-14 SANDMERE ROAD, CLAPHAM, LONDON, SW4 7QJ
ODS code G85083
1.2 km
BROCKWELL PARK SURGERY
117 NORWOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9AE
ODS code G85137
1.2 km
PALACE ROAD SURGERY
1 PALACE ROAD, STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 3DY
ODS code G85041
1.4 km
ELM LODGE SURGERY
2 BURBAGE ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9HJ
ODS code G85051
1.4 km
STOCKWELL GROUP PRACTICE
107 STOCKWELL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 9TJ
ODS code G85028
1.4 km
CLAPHAM PARK GROUP PRACTICE
72 CLARENCE AVENUE, LONDON, SW4 8JP
ODS code G85109
1.5 km
HERNE HILL ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-3 HERNE HILL ROAD, LONDON, SE24 0AU
ODS code G85690
1.5 km
CLAPHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
MARY SEACOLE CENTRE, 89 CLAPHAM HIGH STREET, LONDON, SW4 7DB
ODS code G85011
1.6 km
BECKETT HOUSE PRACTICE
BECKET HOUSE SURGERY, GRANTHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9DL
ODS code G85100
1.7 km
EDITH CAVELL PRACTICE
41A-41C STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 4TP
ODS code G85724
1.7 km
THE GRANTHAM PRACTICE
275-277 CLAPHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9BH
ODS code Y00020
1.8 km
DR CURRAN & PARTNERS
THE CLAPHAM MANOR HEALTH CENTRE, 86 CLAPHAM MANOR STREET, LONDON, SW4 6EB
ODS code G85708
1.8 km
GRAFTON SQUARE SURGERY
8B GRAFTON SQUARE, LONDON, SW4 0DE
ODS code G85674
2.0 km
BINFIELD ROAD SURGERY
1 BINFIELD ROAD, LONDON, SW4 6TB
ODS code G85123
2.0 km
THE DEERBROOK SURGERY
216 NORWOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE27 9AW
ODS code G85129
2.1 km
Showing 20 of 97 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Morval Road
BCT · Brixton
- 0.1 miles
Brixton Water Lane
BCT · Brixton
- 0.1 miles
Morval Road
BCT · Brixton
- 0.1 miles
Brixton Water Lane
BCT · Brixton
- 0.1 miles
Brixton Water Lane
BCT · Brixton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 016E, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,696 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
Schools
301 open schools are in scope, including 157 primary and 39 secondary schools. Trinity Academy is the nearest published school at 336 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
13,940 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,161.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,795 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.