Schools
315 open schools are in scope, including 157 primary and 40 secondary schools. The Elms Academy is the nearest published school at 195 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW4 9BU
Clapham Common & Abbeville · Lambeth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Local authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Clapham and Brixton Hill
- Postcode district
- SW4
- Postcode sector
- SW4 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW4 9BU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 February 2020
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW4
- Postcode sector
- SW4 9
- Latitude
- 51.457372
- Longitude
- -0.138355
- British National Grid easting
- 529,436
- British National Grid northing
- 174,798
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lambeth · E09000022
- Electoral ward
- Clapham Common & Abbeville · E05014099
- Parish or community
- E43000212
- Westminster constituency
- Clapham and Brixton Hill · E14001175
- Output area
- E00015254
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 019E · E01003033
- Middle layer super output area
- Lambeth 019 · E02000636
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 SW4
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Thornton Park, Market Units, Block B, Clapham Common South Side, London, SW4 9BU | 16 January 2020 | £11,000,000 |
| South Side Business Park, 44, Clapham Common South Side, London, SW4 9BU | 4 May 2016 | £35,520,018 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 315
- Primary
- 157
- Secondary
- 40
- 195 m
The Elms Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 196 m
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 278 m
South Bank Colleges
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 11,595
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,877
- Anti social behaviour 1,422
- Other theft 1,173
- Vehicle crime 1,173
- Theft from the person 959
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SW4 9 residents
- 8,148
Age bands in SW4 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 42.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.2%
1,138 residents
954 residents
3,227 residents
1,656 residents
623 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
107
within 5 km straight-line
CLAPHAM PARK GROUP PRACTICE
72 CLARENCE AVENUE, LONDON, SW4 8JP
ODS code G85109
646 m
CLAPHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
MARY SEACOLE CENTRE, 89 CLAPHAM HIGH STREET, LONDON, SW4 7DB
ODS code G85011
717 m
GRAFTON SQUARE SURGERY
8B GRAFTON SQUARE, LONDON, SW4 0DE
ODS code G85674
777 m
HETHERINGTON GROUP PRACTICE
18 HETHERINGTON ROAD, LONDON, SW4 7NU
ODS code G85045
809 m
DR CURRAN & PARTNERS
THE CLAPHAM MANOR HEALTH CENTRE, 86 CLAPHAM MANOR STREET, LONDON, SW4 6EB
ODS code G85708
880 m
SANDMERE PRACTICE
10-14 SANDMERE ROAD, CLAPHAM, LONDON, SW4 7QJ
ODS code G85083
947 m
THURLEIGH ROAD PRACTICE
88A THURLEIGH ROAD, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8TT
ODS code H85114
1.3 km
QUEENSTOWN ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
14 QUEENSTOWN ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW8 3RX
ODS code H85003
1.3 km
BRIXTON HILL GROUP PRACTICE
SURGERY, 22 RALEIGH GARDENS, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW2 1AE
ODS code G85025
1.4 km
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code G85673
1.5 km
STOCKWELLBEING AH
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code Y05187
1.5 km
HETHERINGTON AT THE PAVILION
9 BRIGHTON TERRACE, LONDON, SW9 8DJ
ODS code Y03063
1.6 km
LARC CLINIC (LA)
9 BRIGHTON TERRACE, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW9 8DJ
ODS code Y05163
1.6 km
LAVENDER HILL GROUP PRACTICE
19 POUNTNEY ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 5TU
ODS code H85069
1.6 km
BECKETT HOUSE PRACTICE
BECKET HOUSE SURGERY, GRANTHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9DL
ODS code G85100
1.7 km
NIGHTINGALE PRACTICE
105 NIGHTINGALE LANE, BALHAM, LONDON, SW12 8NB
ODS code H85691
1.7 km
THE GRANTHAM PRACTICE
275-277 CLAPHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9BH
ODS code Y00020
1.8 km
BATTERSEA RISE GROUP PRACTICE
17 BATTERSEA RISE, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 1HG
ODS code H85049
1.8 km
STOCKWELL GROUP PRACTICE
107 STOCKWELL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 9TJ
ODS code G85028
1.9 km
PALACE ROAD SURGERY
1 PALACE ROAD, STREATHAM HILL, LONDON, SW2 3DY
ODS code G85041
1.9 km
Showing 20 of 107 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Clapham Common
BCT · Clapham Common
- 0.3 miles
Clapham Common
BCT · Clapham Common
- 0.3 miles
Long Road / Clapham Common
BCT · Clapham Common
- 0.3 miles
Clapham Common
BCT · Clapham Common
- 0.3 miles
Clapham Common
BCT · Clapham Common
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 019E, 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
23,846 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
11,595 published events cover 12 months, averaging 966.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,877 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.