Schools
342 open schools are in scope, including 146 primary and 38 secondary schools. Cameron Vale School is the nearest published school at 200 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW3 5AA
Chelsea Riverside · Kensington and Chelsea · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Chelsea Riverside
- Local authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham
- Postcode district
- SW3
- Postcode sector
- SW3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW3 5AA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW3
- Postcode sector
- SW3 5
- Latitude
- 51.483839
- Longitude
- -0.174495
- British National Grid easting
- 526,852
- British National Grid northing
- 177,678
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Kensington and Chelsea · E09000020
- Electoral ward
- Chelsea Riverside · E05009391
- Parish or community
- E43000210
- Westminster constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham · E14001160
- Output area
- E00014227
- Lower layer super output area
- Kensington and Chelsea 019B · E01002845
- Middle layer super output area
- Kensington and Chelsea 019 · E02000595
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
- 342
- Primary
- 146
- Secondary
- 38
- 200 m
Cameron Vale School
Other independent school
- 242 m
Park Walk Primary School
Community school
- 378 m
Francis Holland Preparatory School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 11,593
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,641
- Other theft 1,552
- Anti social behaviour 1,482
- Vehicle crime 1,246
- Shoplifting 1,083
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 27
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SW3 5 residents
- 4,404
0 female, 27 male
Age bands in SW3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.2%
503 residents
443 residents
1,191 residents
1,202 residents
792 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SW3 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
124
within 5 km
THE GOOD PRACTICE
KINGS ROAD, LONDON, SW10 0LR
ODS code E87762
280 m
HEALTH PARTNERS AT VIOLET MELCHETT
30 FLOOD WALK, LONDON, SW3 5RR
ODS code E87004
617 m
THE CHELSEA PRACTICE
43 CHELSEA MANOR STREET, LONDON, SW3 5DD
ODS code E87665
617 m
KINGS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
529 KINGS ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW10 0UD
ODS code E87063
811 m
ROSARY GARDEN SURGERY
45 ROSARY GARDENS, LONDON, SW7 4NQ
ODS code E87048
1.1 km
BRIDGE LANE GROUP PRACTICE
BRIDGE LANE HEALTH CENTRE, 20 BRIDGE LANE, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 3AD
ODS code H85045
1.2 km
BROMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE
237-335 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, LONDON, SW5 0EA
ODS code E87746
1.2 km
ROYAL HOSPITAL CHELSEA
ROYAL HOSPITAL ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW3 4SR
ODS code E87711
1.3 km
STANHOPE MEWS SURGERY
7 STANHOPE MEWS WEST, LONDON, SW7 5RB
ODS code E87013
1.3 km
EARLS COURT SURGERY
269 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, EARLS COURT, LONDON, SW5 9JA
ODS code E87750
1.3 km
THE FULHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
446 FULHAM ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 1BG
ODS code E85118
1.3 km
EARLS COURT MEDICAL CENTRE
248 EARLS COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW5 9AD
ODS code E87047
1.5 km
HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE, EARLS COURT
2B HOGARTH ROAD, LONDON, SW5 0PT
ODS code Y03441
1.6 km
EMPEROR'S GATE SURGERY
FIRST FLOOR, 49 EMPERORS GATE, LONDON, SW7 4HJ
ODS code E87043
1.6 km
IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTH CENTRE
40 PRINCES GARDENS, LONDON, SW7 1LY
ODS code E87677
1.7 km
SANDS END HEALTH CLINIC
BRIDGE HOUSE CENTRE FOR HEALTH, 1 BROUGHTON APPROACH ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 2FE
ODS code E85128
1.7 km
FALCON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
47 FALCON ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 2PH
ODS code H85002
1.7 km
THE SURGERY
7 KYNANCE PLACE, LONDON, SW7 4QS
ODS code E87702
1.7 km
NORTH FULHAM SURGERY
82 LILLIE ROAD, LONDON, SW6 1TN
ODS code E85008
1.7 km
BATTERSEA FIELDS PRACTICE
3 AUSTIN ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 5JP
ODS code H85111
1.8 km
Showing 20 of 124 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
Beaufort Street / Kings Road
BCT · Chelsea
- 0.0 miles
Beaufort Street / Kings Road
BCT · Chelsea
- 0.1 miles
Beaufort Street
BCT · Chelsea
- 0.1 miles
Cheyne Walk
BCT · Chelsea
- 0.1 miles
Beaufort Street
BCT · Chelsea
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kensington and Chelsea 019B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
10,009 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
11,593 published events cover 12 months, averaging 966.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,641 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.