Schools
349 open schools are in scope, including 149 primary and 38 secondary schools. Garden House School is the nearest published school at 308 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW3 4NW
Royal Hospital · Kensington and Chelsea · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Ward
- Royal Hospital
- Local authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham
- Postcode district
- SW3
- Postcode sector
- SW3 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW3 4NW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW3
- Postcode sector
- SW3 4
- Latitude
- 51.489023
- Longitude
- -0.162116
- British National Grid easting
- 527,697
- British National Grid northing
- 178,276
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Kensington and Chelsea · E09000020
- Electoral ward
- Royal Hospital · E05009403
- Parish or community
- E43000210
- Westminster constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham · E14001160
- Output area
- E00014591
- Lower layer super output area
- Kensington and Chelsea 018E · E01002903
- Middle layer super output area
- Kensington and Chelsea 018 · E02000594
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 SW3
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 15, Wellington Square, London, SW3 4NW | 11 November 2019 | £3,800,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 349
- Primary
- 149
- Secondary
- 38
- 308 m
Garden House School
Other independent school
- 429 m
Christ Church CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 431 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13,943
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,549
- Other theft 2,199
- Theft from the person 1,847
- Shoplifting 1,563
- Anti social behaviour 1,474
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SW3 4 residents
- 4,321
Age bands in SW3 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.8%
427 residents
388 residents
887 residents
1,368 residents
1,182 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
131
within 5 km
ROYAL HOSPITAL CHELSEA
ROYAL HOSPITAL ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW3 4SR
ODS code E87711
379 m
HEALTH PARTNERS AT VIOLET MELCHETT
30 FLOOD WALK, LONDON, SW3 5RR
ODS code E87004
419 m
THE CHELSEA PRACTICE
43 CHELSEA MANOR STREET, LONDON, SW3 5DD
ODS code E87665
419 m
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 13 PIMLICO ROAD, LONDON, SW1W 8NA
ODS code E87753
771 m
KNIGHTSBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
71-75 PAVILION ROAD, LONDON, SW1X 0ET
ODS code E87738
1.0 km
BELGRAVIA SURGERY
24 ECCLESTON STREET, BELGRAVIA, LONDON, SW1W 9PY
ODS code E87005
1.2 km
IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTH CENTRE
40 PRINCES GARDENS, LONDON, SW7 1LY
ODS code E87677
1.3 km
THE GOOD PRACTICE
KINGS ROAD, LONDON, SW10 0LR
ODS code E87762
1.3 km
ROSARY GARDEN SURGERY
45 ROSARY GARDENS, LONDON, SW7 4NQ
ODS code E87048
1.5 km
STANHOPE MEWS SURGERY
7 STANHOPE MEWS WEST, LONDON, SW7 5RB
ODS code E87013
1.5 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
29 UPPER TACHBROOK STREET, LONDON, SW1V 1SN
ODS code E87002
1.7 km
PIMLICO HEALTH AT THE MARVEN SURGERY
46-50 LUPUS STREET, WESTMINSTER, LONDON, SW1V 3EB
ODS code E87034
1.7 km
BRIDGE LANE GROUP PRACTICE
BRIDGE LANE HEALTH CENTRE, 20 BRIDGE LANE, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 3AD
ODS code H85045
1.7 km
BATTERSEA FIELDS PRACTICE
3 AUSTIN ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 5JP
ODS code H85111
1.8 km
THE SURGERY
7 KYNANCE PLACE, LONDON, SW7 4QS
ODS code E87702
1.8 km
KINGS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
529 KINGS ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW10 0UD
ODS code E87063
1.8 km
EMPEROR'S GATE SURGERY
FIRST FLOOR, 49 EMPERORS GATE, LONDON, SW7 4HJ
ODS code E87043
1.9 km
BROMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE
237-335 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, LONDON, SW5 0EA
ODS code E87746
1.9 km
EARLS COURT SURGERY
269 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, EARLS COURT, LONDON, SW5 9JA
ODS code E87750
2.1 km
EARLS COURT MEDICAL CENTRE
248 EARLS COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW5 9AD
ODS code E87047
2.1 km
Showing 20 of 131 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Walpole Street
BCT · Chelsea
- 0.1 miles
Markham Street
BCT · Chelsea
- 0.1 miles
Duke of York Square
BCT · Chelsea
- 0.1 miles
Markham Street
BCT · Chelsea
- 0.2 miles
Duke of York Square
BCT · Chelsea
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kensington and Chelsea 018E, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,737 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
13,943 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,161.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,549 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.