Schools
287 open schools are in scope, including 130 primary and 32 secondary schools. Thomas's Fulham is the nearest published school at 355 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW6 2GS
Sands End · Hammersmith and Fulham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sands End
- Local authority
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham
- Postcode district
- SW6
- Postcode sector
- SW6 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW6 2GS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2013
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW6
- Postcode sector
- SW6 2
- Latitude
- 51.467187
- Longitude
- -0.187973
- British National Grid easting
- 525,962
- British National Grid northing
- 175,803
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Hammersmith and Fulham · E09000013
- Electoral ward
- Sands End · E05013747
- Parish or community
- E43000203
- Westminster constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham · E14001160
- Output area
- E00009697
- Lower layer super output area
- Hammersmith and Fulham 025D · E01001938
- Middle layer super output area
- Hammersmith and Fulham 025 · E02000396
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 SW6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 287
- Primary
- 130
- Secondary
- 32
- 355 m
Thomas's Fulham
Other independent school
- 583 m
L'Ecole des Petits School
Other independent school
- 597 m
The Hurlingham Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 10,286
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,723
- Anti social behaviour 1,473
- Other theft 1,037
- Shoplifting 886
- Vehicle crime 835
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SW6 2 residents
- 13,849
Age bands in SW6 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 40.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.2%
2,206 residents
1,861 residents
5,779 residents
3,048 residents
1,303 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+
- 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
96
within 5 km straight-line
CHATFIELD HEALTH CARE
CHATFIELD ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 3UJ
ODS code H85047
436 m
SANDS END HEALTH CLINIC
BRIDGE HOUSE CENTRE FOR HEALTH, 1 BROUGHTON APPROACH ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 2FE
ODS code E85128
702 m
CLAPHAM JUNCTION MEDICAL PRACTICE
7 FARRANT HOUSE, WINSTANLEY ROAD, LONDON, SW11 2EJ
ODS code H85088
988 m
HAIDER PRACTICE
162 ST JOHN'S HILL, WANDSWORTH, LONDON, SW11 1SW
ODS code H85075
1.0 km
ST JOHNS HILL SURGERY
ENTRANCE B, 162 ST JOHN'S HILL, WANDSWORTH, LONDON, SW11 1SW
ODS code H85659
1.0 km
THE LILYVILLE SURGERY
PARSONS GREEN HEALTH CENT, 5-7 PARSONS GREEN, LONDON, SW6 4UL
ODS code E85685
1.1 km
JUNCTION HEALTH CENTRE
ARCH 5-7 CLAPHAM J STN, GRANT ROAD, CLAPHAM JUNCTION, LONDON, SW11 2NU
ODS code Y02946
1.2 km
FALCON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
47 FALCON ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 2PH
ODS code H85002
1.2 km
ASHVILLE SURGERY
SWAN HOUSE, PARSONS GREEN LANE, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 4HS
ODS code E85719
1.4 km
TRIANGLE SURGERY
TRIANGLE HOUSE, 2 BROOMHILL ROAD, WANDSWORTH, LONDON, SW18 4HX
ODS code H85082
1.4 km
KINGS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
529 KINGS ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW10 0UD
ODS code E87063
1.5 km
WANDSWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
90-92 GARRATT LANE, WANDSWORTH, LONDON, SW18 4DD
ODS code H85001
1.5 km
CASSIDY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
651A FULHAM ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 5PX
ODS code E85025
1.5 km
THE FULHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
446 FULHAM ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 1BG
ODS code E85118
1.5 km
BRIDGE LANE GROUP PRACTICE
BRIDGE LANE HEALTH CENTRE, 20 BRIDGE LANE, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 3AD
ODS code H85045
1.6 km
BOLINGBROKE MEDICAL CENTRE
WAKEHURST ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 6BF
ODS code H85077
1.8 km
BATTERSEA RISE GROUP PRACTICE
17 BATTERSEA RISE, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 1HG
ODS code H85049
1.8 km
THE GOOD PRACTICE
KINGS ROAD, LONDON, SW10 0LR
ODS code E87762
1.9 km
HEATHBRIDGE PRACTICE
HEATHBRIDGE MED PRACTICE, 125 UPPER RICHMOND ROAD, PUTNEY, LONDON, SW15 2TL
ODS code H85061
2.0 km
BROCKLEBANK HEALTH CENTRE
233 GARRATT LANE, WANDSWORTH, LONDON, SW18 4DU
ODS code H85048
2.1 km
Showing 20 of 96 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Wandsworth Bridge
BCT · Sands End
- 0.0 miles
Wandsworth Bridge /Townmead Rd
BCT · Sands End
- 0.1 miles
Townmead Road
BCT · Sands End
- 0.1 miles
Townmead Road
BCT · Sands End
- 0.1 miles
Sands End / Sainsbury's
BCT · Sands End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hammersmith and Fulham 025D, 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
9,771 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
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
- 1
- 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
10,286 published events cover 12 months, averaging 857.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,723 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.