Schools
251 open schools are in scope, including 143 primary and 32 secondary schools. The Livity School is the nearest published school at 510 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW2 4UQ
Streatham Hill West & Thornton · Lambeth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Streatham and Croydon North
- Postcode district
- SW2
- Postcode sector
- SW2 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW2 4UQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW2
- Postcode sector
- SW2 4
- Latitude
- 51.440785
- Longitude
- -0.125719
- British National Grid easting
- 530,361
- British National Grid northing
- 172,976
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lambeth · E09000022
- Electoral ward
- Streatham Hill West & Thornton · E05014114
- Parish or community
- E43000212
- Westminster constituency
- Streatham and Croydon North · E14001527
- Output area
- E00177626
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 026B · E01003131
- Middle layer super output area
- Lambeth 026 · E02000643
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 251
- Primary
- 143
- Secondary
- 32
- 510 m
The Livity School
Community special school
- 529 m
Christ Church, Streatham Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 561 m
The Orchard School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,431
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,249
- Anti social behaviour 1,118
- Other theft 651
- Vehicle crime 635
- Shoplifting 543
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SW2 4 residents
- 11,571
Age bands in SW2 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 44.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 6.9%
1,694 residents
1,375 residents
5,300 residents
2,663 residents
817 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.
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
96
within 5 km
EDITH CAVELL PRACTICE
41A-41C STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 4TP
ODS code G85724
86 m
THE STREATHAM HILL GROUP PRACTICE
6 LEIGHAM COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW16 2PG
ODS code G85662
389 m
PALACE ROAD SURGERY
1 PALACE ROAD, STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 3DY
ODS code G85041
489 m
AT MEDICS STREATHAM PCN EA HUB
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE, 2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code Y05162
928 m
STREATHAM HIGH PRACTICE
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85002
928 m
THE EXCHANGE SURGERY
2-8 GRACEFIELD GARDENS, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2ST
ODS code G85647
928 m
PRENTIS MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PRENTIS ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 1XU
ODS code G85021
1.2 km
BRIXTON HILL GROUP PRACTICE
SURGERY, 22 RALEIGH GARDENS, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW2 1AE
ODS code G85025
1.3 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
1.4 km
VALLEY ROAD SURGERY
139 VALLEY ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 2XT
ODS code G85044
1.4 km
BALHAM HEALTH CENTRE
120 BEDFORD HILL, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 9HS
ODS code H85637
1.6 km
BEDFORD HILL FAMILY PRACTICE
120-124 BEDFORD HILL, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 9HS
ODS code H85009
1.6 km
KNIGHTS HILL SURGERY SUITE 1
SUITE 1, WEST NORWOOD HEALTH & LC, WEST NORWOOD, LONDON, SE27 0DF
ODS code G85047
1.8 km
BROCKWELL PARK SURGERY
117 NORWOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9AE
ODS code G85137
1.9 km
BALHAM PARK SURGERY
236 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7AW
ODS code H85066
2.1 km
OPEN DOOR SURGERY
47 BOUNDARIES ROAD, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8EU
ODS code H85087
2.1 km
STREATHAM PARK SURGERY
91 MITCHAM LANE, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 6LY
ODS code H85052
2.1 km
HETHERINGTON GROUP PRACTICE
18 HETHERINGTON ROAD, LONDON, SW4 7NU
ODS code G85045
2.3 km
TOOTING BEC SURGERY
313 BALHAM HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SW17 7BA
ODS code H85664
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 96 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
- 0.0 miles
Barrhill Road
BCT · Streatham Hill
- 0.1 miles
Telford Avenue
BCT · Streatham Hill
- 0.1 miles
Telford Avenue
BCT · Streatham Hill
- 0.1 miles
Streatham Hill Station / Streatham Hill
BCT · Streatham Hill
- 0.1 miles
Streatham Hill Station / Streatham Hill
BCT · Streatham Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 026B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,617 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
7,431 published events cover 12 months, averaging 619.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,249 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.