Schools
326 open schools are in scope, including 143 primary and 32 secondary schools. Collingham is the nearest published school at 424 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW5 9SY
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 9SY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1986
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW5
- Postcode sector
- SW5 9
- Latitude
- 51.491357
- Longitude
- -0.194290
- British National Grid easting
- 525,457
- British National Grid northing
- 178,480
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
- E00014299
- Lower layer super output area
- Kensington and Chelsea 015B · E01002847
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 326
- Primary
- 143
- Secondary
- 32
- 424 m
Collingham
Other independent school
- 574 m
Wetherby School, Kensington
Other independent school
- 583 m
Bousfield Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13,836
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,474
- Anti social behaviour 1,833
- Other theft 1,823
- Shoplifting 1,189
- Vehicle crime 1,143
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.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
125
within 5 km
EARLS COURT MEDICAL CENTRE
248 EARLS COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW5 9AD
ODS code E87047
121 m
HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE, EARLS COURT
2B HOGARTH ROAD, LONDON, SW5 0PT
ODS code Y03441
204 m
EARLS COURT SURGERY
269 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, EARLS COURT, LONDON, SW5 9JA
ODS code E87750
338 m
BROMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE
237-335 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, LONDON, SW5 0EA
ODS code E87746
376 m
THE ABINGDON HEALTH CENTRE
88-92 EARLS COURT ROAD, KENSINGTON, LONDON, W8 6EG
ODS code E87701
561 m
NORTH FULHAM SURGERY
82 LILLIE ROAD, LONDON, SW6 1TN
ODS code E85008
653 m
EMPEROR'S GATE SURGERY
FIRST FLOOR, 49 EMPERORS GATE, LONDON, SW7 4HJ
ODS code E87043
782 m
NORTH END MEDICAL CENTRE
160 NORTH END ROAD, WEST KENSINGTON, LONDON, W14 9PR
ODS code E85003
785 m
ROSARY GARDEN SURGERY
45 ROSARY GARDENS, LONDON, SW7 4NQ
ODS code E87048
787 m
SCARSDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
2 SCARSDALE PLACE, LONDON, W8 5SX
ODS code E87715
905 m
STANHOPE MEWS SURGERY
7 STANHOPE MEWS WEST, LONDON, SW7 5RB
ODS code E87013
927 m
GP AT HAND
139 LILLIE ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 7SX
ODS code E85124
962 m
THE SURGERY
7 KYNANCE PLACE, LONDON, SW7 4QS
ODS code E87702
973 m
HOLLAND PARK SURGERY
LOWER GROUND FLOOR, 12 PHILLIMORE WALK, LONDON, W8 7RX
ODS code E87016
1.1 km
THE FULHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
446 FULHAM ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 1BG
ODS code E85118
1.2 km
KENSINGTON PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
75 RUSSELL ROAD, LONDON, W14 8HW
ODS code E87720
1.2 km
KINGS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
529 KINGS ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW10 0UD
ODS code E87063
1.4 km
CASSIDY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
651A FULHAM ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 5PX
ODS code E85025
1.4 km
THE GOOD PRACTICE
KINGS ROAD, LONDON, SW10 0LR
ODS code E87762
1.5 km
FULHAM CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
322 LILLIE ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 7PP
ODS code E85649
1.7 km
Showing 20 of 125 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Earl's Court Underground Station
PLT · Earls Court
- 0.0 miles
Earl's Court Underground Station
PLT · Earls Court
- 0.0 miles
Earl's Court Underground Station
PLT · Earls Court
- 0.0 miles
Earl's Court Underground Station
PLT · Earls Court
- 0.1 miles
Earl's Court Underground Station
MET · Earls Court
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kensington and Chelsea 015B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,750 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 2 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.
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
- 1
- 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
13,836 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,153 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,474 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.