Schools
321 open schools are in scope, including 139 primary and 32 secondary schools. Collingham is the nearest published school at 474 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW5 9RL
Earl's Court · Kensington and Chelsea · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- 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 9RL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW5
- Postcode sector
- SW5 9
- Latitude
- 51.493828
- Longitude
- -0.194711
- British National Grid easting
- 525,421
- British National Grid northing
- 178,754
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
- E00190369
- Lower layer super output area
- Kensington and Chelsea 015D · E01002851
- Middle layer super output area
- Kensington and Chelsea 015 · E02000591
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 123, Earls Court Road, London, SW5 9RL | 29 March 2020 | £6,250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 321
- Primary
- 139
- Secondary
- 32
- 474 m
Collingham
Other independent school
- 497 m
St Barnabas and St Philip's CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 644 m
Wetherby School, Kensington
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 12,725
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,141
- Other theft 1,730
- Anti social behaviour 1,679
- Shoplifting 1,106
- Vehicle crime 1,052
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- SW5 9 residents
- 7,673
1 female, 2 male
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
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SW5 9 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+
- 88.9%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 88.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 88.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 88.9%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 88.9%
- 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
128
within 5 km
HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE, EARLS COURT
2B HOGARTH ROAD, LONDON, SW5 0PT
ODS code Y03441
189 m
EARLS COURT MEDICAL CENTRE
248 EARLS COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW5 9AD
ODS code E87047
270 m
THE ABINGDON HEALTH CENTRE
88-92 EARLS COURT ROAD, KENSINGTON, LONDON, W8 6EG
ODS code E87701
302 m
BROMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE
237-335 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, LONDON, SW5 0EA
ODS code E87746
594 m
EARLS COURT SURGERY
269 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, EARLS COURT, LONDON, SW5 9JA
ODS code E87750
601 m
EMPEROR'S GATE SURGERY
FIRST FLOOR, 49 EMPERORS GATE, LONDON, SW7 4HJ
ODS code E87043
646 m
SCARSDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
2 SCARSDALE PLACE, LONDON, W8 5SX
ODS code E87715
646 m
THE SURGERY
7 KYNANCE PLACE, LONDON, SW7 4QS
ODS code E87702
824 m
ROSARY GARDEN SURGERY
45 ROSARY GARDENS, LONDON, SW7 4NQ
ODS code E87048
834 m
HOLLAND PARK SURGERY
LOWER GROUND FLOOR, 12 PHILLIMORE WALK, LONDON, W8 7RX
ODS code E87016
844 m
NORTH FULHAM SURGERY
82 LILLIE ROAD, LONDON, SW6 1TN
ODS code E85008
886 m
STANHOPE MEWS SURGERY
7 STANHOPE MEWS WEST, LONDON, SW7 5RB
ODS code E87013
892 m
NORTH END MEDICAL CENTRE
160 NORTH END ROAD, WEST KENSINGTON, LONDON, W14 9PR
ODS code E85003
933 m
KENSINGTON PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
75 RUSSELL ROAD, LONDON, W14 8HW
ODS code E87720
1.1 km
GP AT HAND
139 LILLIE ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 7SX
ODS code E85124
1.2 km
THE FULHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
446 FULHAM ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 1BG
ODS code E85118
1.5 km
KINGS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
529 KINGS ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW10 0UD
ODS code E87063
1.7 km
CASSIDY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
651A FULHAM ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 5PX
ODS code E85025
1.7 km
STERNDALE SURGERY
MILSON ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, 1-13 MILSON ROAD, LONDON, W14 0LJ
ODS code E85125
1.7 km
WEST KENSINGTON GP SURGERY
MILSON ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, 1-13 MILSON ROAD, LONDON, W14 0LJ
ODS code E85074
1.7 km
Showing 20 of 128 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
Nevern Place
BCT · Earls Court
- 0.1 miles
Cromwell Road / Earls Court Rd
BCT · Earls Court
- 0.1 miles
Earls Court Road
BCT · Earls Court
- 0.1 miles
Cromwell Road (W8)
BCT · Earls Court
- 0.1 miles
Earl's Court Station
TMU · Earls Court
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kensington and Chelsea 015D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
3,881 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
12,725 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,060.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,141 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.