Schools
310 open schools are in scope, including 160 primary and 39 secondary schools. JUS Education is the nearest published school at 123 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW2 5BX
Brixton Acre Lane · Lambeth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Brixton Acre Lane
- Local authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Clapham and Brixton Hill
- Postcode district
- SW2
- Postcode sector
- SW2 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW2 5BX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW2
- Postcode sector
- SW2 5
- Latitude
- 51.457123
- Longitude
- -0.121610
- British National Grid easting
- 530,600
- British National Grid northing
- 174,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lambeth · E09000022
- Electoral ward
- Brixton Acre Lane · E05014095
- Parish or community
- E43000212
- Westminster constituency
- Clapham and Brixton Hill · E14001175
- Output area
- E00015215
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 020A · E01003018
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 310
- Primary
- 160
- Secondary
- 39
- 123 m
JUS Education
Other independent special school
- 147 m
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 158 m
South Bank University Sixth Form
Academy 16 to 19 sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15,733
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,064
- Anti social behaviour 1,785
- Theft from the person 1,540
- Shoplifting 1,445
- Other theft 1,355
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SW2 5 residents
- 10,789
Age bands in SW2 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 50%
- Age 45 to 64
- 19%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.8%
982 residents
1,321 residents
4,967 residents
1,889 residents
771 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
101
within 5 km straight-line
BRIXTON HILL GROUP PRACTICE
SURGERY, 22 RALEIGH GARDENS, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW2 1AE
ODS code G85025
544 m
HETHERINGTON AT THE PAVILION
9 BRIGHTON TERRACE, LONDON, SW9 8DJ
ODS code Y03063
620 m
LARC CLINIC (LA)
9 BRIGHTON TERRACE, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW9 8DJ
ODS code Y05163
620 m
HETHERINGTON GROUP PRACTICE
18 HETHERINGTON ROAD, LONDON, SW4 7NU
ODS code G85045
637 m
SANDMERE PRACTICE
10-14 SANDMERE ROAD, CLAPHAM, LONDON, SW4 7QJ
ODS code G85083
738 m
CLAPHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
MARY SEACOLE CENTRE, 89 CLAPHAM HIGH STREET, LONDON, SW4 7DB
ODS code G85011
1.1 km
CLAPHAM PARK GROUP PRACTICE
72 CLARENCE AVENUE, LONDON, SW4 8JP
ODS code G85109
1.1 km
STOCKWELL GROUP PRACTICE
107 STOCKWELL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 9TJ
ODS code G85028
1.2 km
DR CURRAN & PARTNERS
THE CLAPHAM MANOR HEALTH CENTRE, 86 CLAPHAM MANOR STREET, LONDON, SW4 6EB
ODS code G85708
1.3 km
BECKETT HOUSE PRACTICE
BECKET HOUSE SURGERY, GRANTHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9DL
ODS code G85100
1.4 km
GRAFTON SQUARE SURGERY
8B GRAFTON SQUARE, LONDON, SW4 0DE
ODS code G85674
1.5 km
PALACE ROAD SURGERY
1 PALACE ROAD, STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 3DY
ODS code G85041
1.5 km
THE GRANTHAM PRACTICE
275-277 CLAPHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9BH
ODS code Y00020
1.5 km
HERNE HILL GROUP PRACTICE
74 HERNE HILL, HERNE HILL, LONDON, SE24 9QP
ODS code G85016
1.6 km
BROCKWELL PARK SURGERY
117 NORWOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9AE
ODS code G85137
1.7 km
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code G85673
1.7 km
STOCKWELLBEING AH
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code Y05187
1.7 km
BINFIELD ROAD SURGERY
1 BINFIELD ROAD, LONDON, SW4 6TB
ODS code G85123
1.7 km
HERNE HILL ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-3 HERNE HILL ROAD, LONDON, SE24 0AU
ODS code G85690
1.7 km
EDITH CAVELL PRACTICE
41A-41C STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 4TP
ODS code G85724
1.8 km
Showing 20 of 101 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Rush Common
BCT · Brixton
- 0.2 miles
Brixton Water Ln /Brixton Hill
BCT · Brixton
- 0.2 miles
Blenheim Gardens (SW2)
BCT · Clapham Park
- 0.2 miles
Belvedere Place
BCT · Brixton
- 0.2 miles
Rush Common
BCT · Brixton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 020A, 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
15,151 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 2 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
15,733 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,311.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,064 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.