Schools
361 open schools are in scope, including 145 primary and 34 secondary schools. Royal College of Art is the nearest published school at 324 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW7 5EE
Lancaster Gate · Westminster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lancaster Gate
- Local authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater
- Postcode district
- SW7
- Postcode sector
- SW7 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW7 5EE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW7
- Postcode sector
- SW7 5
- Latitude
- 51.501652
- Longitude
- -0.183091
- British National Grid easting
- 526,206
- British National Grid northing
- 179,644
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Westminster · E09000033
- Electoral ward
- Lancaster Gate · E05013798
- Parish or community
- E43000236
- Westminster constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater · E14001310
- Output area
- E00190380
- Lower layer super output area
- Westminster 019G · E01035718
- Middle layer super output area
- Westminster 019 · E02000978
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 SW7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 361
- Primary
- 145
- Secondary
- 34
- 324 m
Royal College of Art
Higher education institutions
- 363 m
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Higher education institutions
- 456 m
Ashbourne College
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13,314
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,657
- Other theft 2,208
- Anti social behaviour 1,553
- Shoplifting 1,346
- Theft from the person 1,294
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SW7 5 residents
- 3,635
Age bands in SW7 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13%
- Age 15 to 24
- 15.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.6%
458 residents
548 residents
1,211 residents
901 residents
410 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
134
within 5 km
THE SURGERY
7 KYNANCE PLACE, LONDON, SW7 4QS
ODS code E87702
459 m
EMPEROR'S GATE SURGERY
FIRST FLOOR, 49 EMPERORS GATE, LONDON, SW7 4HJ
ODS code E87043
635 m
SCARSDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
2 SCARSDALE PLACE, LONDON, W8 5SX
ODS code E87715
655 m
HOLLAND PARK SURGERY
LOWER GROUND FLOOR, 12 PHILLIMORE WALK, LONDON, W8 7RX
ODS code E87016
786 m
STANHOPE MEWS SURGERY
7 STANHOPE MEWS WEST, LONDON, SW7 5RB
ODS code E87013
803 m
IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTH CENTRE
40 PRINCES GARDENS, LONDON, SW7 1LY
ODS code E87677
840 m
ROSARY GARDEN SURGERY
45 ROSARY GARDENS, LONDON, SW7 4NQ
ODS code E87048
1.1 km
LANCASTER GATE MEDICAL CENTRE
LEINSTER TERRACE, LONDON, W2 3ET
ODS code E87722
1.1 km
THE ABINGDON HEALTH CENTRE
88-92 EARLS COURT ROAD, KENSINGTON, LONDON, W8 6EG
ODS code E87701
1.2 km
HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE, EARLS COURT
2B HOGARTH ROAD, LONDON, SW5 0PT
ODS code Y03441
1.2 km
EARLS COURT MEDICAL CENTRE
248 EARLS COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW5 9AD
ODS code E87047
1.3 km
BROMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE
237-335 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, LONDON, SW5 0EA
ODS code E87746
1.4 km
THE GARWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
PICKERING HOUSE, HALLFIELD ESTATE, LONDON, W2 6HF
ODS code E87009
1.5 km
EARLS COURT SURGERY
269 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, EARLS COURT, LONDON, SW5 9JA
ODS code E87750
1.6 km
THE PEMBRIDGE VILLAS SURGERY
45A PEMBRIDGE VILLAS, LONDON, W11 3EP
ODS code E87061
1.6 km
KNIGHTSBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
71-75 PAVILION ROAD, LONDON, SW1X 0ET
ODS code E87738
1.7 km
NEWTON MEDICAL CENTRE
BAYSWATER CENTRE 14-18, NEWTON ROAD, LONDON, W2 5LT
ODS code E87681
1.7 km
WESTBOURNE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
241 WESTBOURNE GROVE, LONDON, W11 2SE
ODS code E87007
1.8 km
PORTLAND ROAD PRACTICE
16 PORTLAND ROAD, LONDON, W11 4LA
ODS code E87029
1.8 km
KENSINGTON PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
75 RUSSELL ROAD, LONDON, W14 8HW
ODS code E87720
1.8 km
Showing 20 of 134 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
Palace Gate
BCT · Kensington
- 0.0 miles
Palace Gate
BCT · Kensington
- 0.0 miles
Palace Gate
BCT · Kensington
- 0.0 miles
Kensington Road / Royal Albert Hall
BCT · Knightsbridge
- 0.0 miles
Palace Gate
BCT · Kensington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Westminster 019G, 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
24,418 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
- 1
- 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
13,314 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,109.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,657 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.