Schools
326 open schools are in scope, including 142 primary and 34 secondary schools. Collingham is the nearest published school at 468 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW5 9BU
Earl's Court · Kensington and Chelsea · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Earl's Court
- Local authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater
- Postcode district
- SW5
- Postcode sector
- SW5 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW5 9BU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1983
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW5
- Postcode sector
- SW5 9
- Latitude
- 51.489730
- Longitude
- -0.193735
- British National Grid easting
- 525,500
- 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
- Earl's Court · E05009395
- Parish or community
- E43000210
- Westminster constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater · E14001310
- Output area
- E00014272
- Lower layer super output area
- Kensington and Chelsea 017B · E01002849
- Middle layer super output area
- Kensington and Chelsea 017 · E02000593
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 SW5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 326
- Primary
- 142
- Secondary
- 34
- 468 m
Collingham
Other independent school
- 533 m
Bousfield Primary School
Community school
- 579 m
Wetherby School, Kensington
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 14,151
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,558
- Anti social behaviour 1,873
- Other theft 1,831
- Shoplifting 1,229
- Vehicle crime 1,191
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SW5 9 residents
- 7,673
Age bands in SW5 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 17.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 37.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.9%
764 residents
1,355 residents
2,875 residents
1,769 residents
916 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
125
within 5 km straight-line
EARLS COURT SURGERY
269 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, EARLS COURT, LONDON, SW5 9JA
ODS code E87750
171 m
EARLS COURT MEDICAL CENTRE
248 EARLS COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW5 9AD
ODS code E87047
238 m
BROMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE
237-335 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, LONDON, SW5 0EA
ODS code E87746
272 m
HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE, EARLS COURT
2B HOGARTH ROAD, LONDON, SW5 0PT
ODS code Y03441
354 m
NORTH FULHAM SURGERY
82 LILLIE ROAD, LONDON, SW6 1TN
ODS code E85008
537 m
THE ABINGDON HEALTH CENTRE
88-92 EARLS COURT ROAD, KENSINGTON, LONDON, W8 6EG
ODS code E87701
745 m
NORTH END MEDICAL CENTRE
160 NORTH END ROAD, WEST KENSINGTON, LONDON, W14 9PR
ODS code E85003
748 m
ROSARY GARDEN SURGERY
45 ROSARY GARDENS, LONDON, SW7 4NQ
ODS code E87048
789 m
GP AT HAND
139 LILLIE ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 7SX
ODS code E85124
863 m
EMPEROR'S GATE SURGERY
FIRST FLOOR, 49 EMPERORS GATE, LONDON, SW7 4HJ
ODS code E87043
895 m
STANHOPE MEWS SURGERY
7 STANHOPE MEWS WEST, LONDON, SW7 5RB
ODS code E87013
977 m
THE FULHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
446 FULHAM ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 1BG
ODS code E85118
1.0 km
SCARSDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
2 SCARSDALE PLACE, LONDON, W8 5SX
ODS code E87715
1.1 km
THE SURGERY
7 KYNANCE PLACE, LONDON, SW7 4QS
ODS code E87702
1.1 km
KINGS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
529 KINGS ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW10 0UD
ODS code E87063
1.2 km
CASSIDY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
651A FULHAM ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 5PX
ODS code E85025
1.2 km
HOLLAND PARK SURGERY
LOWER GROUND FLOOR, 12 PHILLIMORE WALK, LONDON, W8 7RX
ODS code E87016
1.3 km
KENSINGTON PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
75 RUSSELL ROAD, LONDON, W14 8HW
ODS code E87720
1.3 km
THE GOOD PRACTICE
KINGS ROAD, LONDON, SW10 0LR
ODS code E87762
1.3 km
ASHVILLE SURGERY
SWAN HOUSE, PARSONS GREEN LANE, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 4HS
ODS code E85719
1.6 km
Showing 20 of 125 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Earls Court Square
BCT · West Brompton
- 0.0 miles
Earl's Court Station
BCT · Earls Court
- 0.1 miles
Earl's Court Station
BCT · Earls Court
- 0.1 miles
Warwick Road (SW5)
BCT · West Brompton
- 0.1 miles
Earl's Court Station
TMU · Earls Court
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kensington and Chelsea 017B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,996 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
14,151 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,179.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,558 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.