Schools
315 open schools are in scope, including 156 primary and 39 secondary schools. JUS Education is the nearest published school at 378 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW2 5JR
Brixton Acre Lane · Lambeth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- 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 5JR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW2
- Postcode sector
- SW2 5
- Latitude
- 51.459063
- Longitude
- -0.125949
- British National Grid easting
- 530,293
- British National Grid northing
- 175,008
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
- E00015217
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 015A · E01003019
- Middle layer super output area
- Lambeth 015 · E02000632
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
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 14b, Strathleven Road, London, SW2 5JR | 19 February 2010 | £307,500 |
| 16, Strathleven Road, London, SW2 5JR | 29 September 2006 | £435,000 |
| 14b, Strathleven Road, London, SW2 5JR | 29 September 2006 | £279,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 315
- Primary
- 156
- Secondary
- 39
- 378 m
JUS Education
Other independent special school
- 382 m
Harris Clapham Sixth Form
Free schools 16 to 19
- 468 m
Sudbourne Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15,882
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,059
- Anti social behaviour 1,819
- Theft from the person 1,569
- Shoplifting 1,473
- Other theft 1,414
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- SW2 5 residents
- 10,789
8 female, 5 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SW2 5 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
106
within 5 km straight-line
HETHERINGTON GROUP PRACTICE
18 HETHERINGTON ROAD, LONDON, SW4 7NU
ODS code G85045
274 m
SANDMERE PRACTICE
10-14 SANDMERE ROAD, CLAPHAM, LONDON, SW4 7QJ
ODS code G85083
410 m
CLAPHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
MARY SEACOLE CENTRE, 89 CLAPHAM HIGH STREET, LONDON, SW4 7DB
ODS code G85011
699 m
HETHERINGTON AT THE PAVILION
9 BRIGHTON TERRACE, LONDON, SW9 8DJ
ODS code Y03063
725 m
LARC CLINIC (LA)
9 BRIGHTON TERRACE, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW9 8DJ
ODS code Y05163
725 m
BRIXTON HILL GROUP PRACTICE
SURGERY, 22 RALEIGH GARDENS, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW2 1AE
ODS code G85025
851 m
DR CURRAN & PARTNERS
THE CLAPHAM MANOR HEALTH CENTRE, 86 CLAPHAM MANOR STREET, LONDON, SW4 6EB
ODS code G85708
973 m
CLAPHAM PARK GROUP PRACTICE
72 CLARENCE AVENUE, LONDON, SW4 8JP
ODS code G85109
1.0 km
GRAFTON SQUARE SURGERY
8B GRAFTON SQUARE, LONDON, SW4 0DE
ODS code G85674
1.1 km
STOCKWELL GROUP PRACTICE
107 STOCKWELL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 9TJ
ODS code G85028
1.2 km
BECKETT HOUSE PRACTICE
BECKET HOUSE SURGERY, GRANTHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9DL
ODS code G85100
1.2 km
THE GRANTHAM PRACTICE
275-277 CLAPHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9BH
ODS code Y00020
1.3 km
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code G85673
1.4 km
STOCKWELLBEING AH
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code Y05187
1.4 km
BINFIELD ROAD SURGERY
1 BINFIELD ROAD, LONDON, SW4 6TB
ODS code G85123
1.5 km
PALACE ROAD SURGERY
1 PALACE ROAD, STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 3DY
ODS code G85041
1.7 km
QUEENSTOWN ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
14 QUEENSTOWN ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW8 3RX
ODS code H85003
1.9 km
HERNE HILL ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-3 HERNE HILL ROAD, LONDON, SE24 0AU
ODS code G85690
1.9 km
HERNE HILL GROUP PRACTICE
74 HERNE HILL, HERNE HILL, LONDON, SE24 9QP
ODS code G85016
1.9 km
THE SOUTH LAMBETH RD PRACTICE
1 SELWAY HOUSE, 272 SOUTH LAMBETH ROAD, LONDON, SW8 1UL
ODS code G85086
2.0 km
Showing 20 of 106 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Solon Road
BCT · Brixton
- 0.1 miles
Solon Road
BCT · Brixton
- 0.2 miles
Lyham Road
BCT · Clapham Park
- 0.2 miles
Lyham Road
BCT · Clapham Park
- 0.2 miles
Clapham Park Road
BCT · Clapham Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 015A, 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
21,253 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
- 3
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
15,882 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,323.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,059 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.