Schools
350 open schools are in scope, including 149 primary and 38 secondary schools. Garden House School is the nearest published school at 299 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW3 4QT
Royal Hospital · Kensington and Chelsea · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 4QT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW3
- Postcode sector
- SW3 4
- Latitude
- 51.489238
- Longitude
- -0.162064
- British National Grid easting
- 527,700
- British National Grid northing
- 178,300
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 350
- Primary
- 149
- Secondary
- 38
- 299 m
Garden House School
Other independent school
- 407 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 407 m
St. Thomas More Language College
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 14,003
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,564
- Other theft 2,223
- Theft from the person 1,883
- Shoplifting 1,553
- 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.
GP practices
132
within 5 km straight-line
ROYAL HOSPITAL CHELSEA
ROYAL HOSPITAL ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW3 4SR
ODS code E87711
388 m
HEALTH PARTNERS AT VIOLET MELCHETT
30 FLOOD WALK, LONDON, SW3 5RR
ODS code E87004
436 m
THE CHELSEA PRACTICE
43 CHELSEA MANOR STREET, LONDON, SW3 5DD
ODS code E87665
436 m
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 13 PIMLICO ROAD, LONDON, SW1W 8NA
ODS code E87753
762 m
KNIGHTSBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
71-75 PAVILION ROAD, LONDON, SW1X 0ET
ODS code E87738
994 m
BELGRAVIA SURGERY
24 ECCLESTON STREET, BELGRAVIA, LONDON, SW1W 9PY
ODS code E87005
1.1 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
EMPEROR'S GATE SURGERY
FIRST FLOOR, 49 EMPERORS GATE, LONDON, SW7 4HJ
ODS code E87043
1.9 km
KINGS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
529 KINGS ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW10 0UD
ODS code E87063
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 132 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Walpole Street
BCT · Chelsea
- 0.1 miles
Duke of York Square
BCT · Chelsea
- 0.1 miles
Markham Street
BCT · Chelsea
- 0.1 miles
Markham Street
BCT · Chelsea
- 0.1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
14,003 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,166.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,564 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.