Schools
277 open schools are in scope, including 153 primary and 35 secondary schools. Elm Court School is the nearest published school at 201 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW2 2LX
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 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW2 2LX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW2
- Postcode sector
- SW2 2
- Latitude
- 51.449662
- Longitude
- -0.115684
- British National Grid easting
- 531,033
- British National Grid northing
- 173,981
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
- E00016027
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 020B · E01003171
- Middle layer super output area
- Lambeth 020 · E02000637
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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Ellacombe House, Flat 3, Tulse Hill, London, SW2 2LX | 31 January 2019 | £300,000 |
| Ellacombe House, Flat 15, Tulse Hill, London, SW2 2LX | 18 January 2019 | £135,000 |
| Ellacombe House, Flat 16, Tulse Hill, London, SW2 2LX | 25 September 2017 | £360,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 277
- Primary
- 153
- Secondary
- 35
- 201 m
Elm Court School
Community special school
- 299 m
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 317 m
Jubilee Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 11,074
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,878
- Anti social behaviour 1,400
- Other theft 982
- Vehicle crime 890
- Shoplifting 863
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 52
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- SW2 2 residents
- 11,742
24 female, 28 male
Age bands in SW2 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 41.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.4%
1,855 residents
1,422 residents
4,946 residents
2,795 residents
885 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SW2 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
90
within 5 km straight-line
BRIXTON HILL GROUP PRACTICE
SURGERY, 22 RALEIGH GARDENS, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW2 1AE
ODS code G85025
431 m
PALACE ROAD SURGERY
1 PALACE ROAD, STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 3DY
ODS code G85041
737 m
BROCKWELL PARK SURGERY
117 NORWOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9AE
ODS code G85137
990 m
EDITH CAVELL PRACTICE
41A-41C STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 4TP
ODS code G85724
1.1 km
HETHERINGTON AT THE PAVILION
9 BRIGHTON TERRACE, LONDON, SW9 8DJ
ODS code Y03063
1.3 km
LARC CLINIC (LA)
9 BRIGHTON TERRACE, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW9 8DJ
ODS code Y05163
1.3 km
HERNE HILL GROUP PRACTICE
74 HERNE HILL, HERNE HILL, LONDON, SE24 9QP
ODS code G85016
1.4 km
ELM LODGE SURGERY
2 BURBAGE ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9HJ
ODS code G85051
1.4 km
CLAPHAM PARK GROUP PRACTICE
72 CLARENCE AVENUE, LONDON, SW4 8JP
ODS code G85109
1.4 km
THE DEERBROOK SURGERY
216 NORWOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE27 9AW
ODS code G85129
1.5 km
HETHERINGTON GROUP PRACTICE
18 HETHERINGTON ROAD, LONDON, SW4 7NU
ODS code G85045
1.5 km
THE STREATHAM HILL GROUP PRACTICE
6 LEIGHAM COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW16 2PG
ODS code G85662
1.6 km
SANDMERE PRACTICE
10-14 SANDMERE ROAD, CLAPHAM, LONDON, SW4 7QJ
ODS code G85083
1.7 km
CLAPHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
MARY SEACOLE CENTRE, 89 CLAPHAM HIGH STREET, LONDON, SW4 7DB
ODS code G85011
1.9 km
STOCKWELL GROUP PRACTICE
107 STOCKWELL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 9TJ
ODS code G85028
2.0 km
AT MEDICS STREATHAM PCN EA HUB
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE, 2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code Y05162
2.1 km
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85002
2.1 km
THE EXCHANGE SURGERY
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85647
2.1 km
HERNE HILL ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-3 HERNE HILL ROAD, LONDON, SE24 0AU
ODS code G85690
2.1 km
KNIGHTS HILL SURGERY SUITE 1
SUITE 1, WEST NORWOOD HEALTH & LC, WEST NORWOOD, LONDON, SE27 0DF
ODS code G85047
2.1 km
Showing 20 of 90 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Craignair Road
BCT · Tulse Hill
- 0.2 miles
Craignair Road
BCT · Tulse Hill
- 0.2 miles
Jubilee Primary School
BCT · Herne Hill
- 0.2 miles
Jubilee Primary School
BCT · Herne Hill
- 0.3 miles
Jebb Avenue / Brixton Prison
BCT · Clapham Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 020B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,861 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
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
11,074 published events cover 12 months, averaging 922.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,878 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.