Schools
350 open schools are in scope, including 145 primary and 35 secondary schools. Queen's Gate School is the nearest published school at 17 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW7 5LF
Courtfield · Kensington and Chelsea · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Courtfield
- Local authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater
- Postcode district
- SW7
- Postcode sector
- SW7 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW7 5LF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW7
- Postcode sector
- SW7 5
- Latitude
- 51.494792
- Longitude
- -0.178567
- British National Grid easting
- 526,539
- British National Grid northing
- 178,889
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Kensington and Chelsea · E09000020
- Electoral ward
- Courtfield · E05009393
- Parish or community
- E43000210
- Westminster constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater · E14001310
- Output area
- E00014101
- Lower layer super output area
- Kensington and Chelsea 016F · E01035713
- Middle layer super output area
- Kensington and Chelsea 016 · E02000592
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
- 350
- Primary
- 145
- Secondary
- 35
- 17 m
Queen's Gate School
Other independent school
- 99 m
Glendower Preparatory School
Other independent school
- 138 m
Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13,701
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,789
- Other theft 2,016
- Shoplifting 1,745
- Anti social behaviour 1,528
- Vehicle crime 1,486
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
133
within 5 km
STANHOPE MEWS SURGERY
7 STANHOPE MEWS WEST, LONDON, SW7 5RB
ODS code E87013
235 m
ROSARY GARDEN SURGERY
45 ROSARY GARDENS, LONDON, SW7 4NQ
ODS code E87048
431 m
THE SURGERY
7 KYNANCE PLACE, LONDON, SW7 4QS
ODS code E87702
520 m
EMPEROR'S GATE SURGERY
FIRST FLOOR, 49 EMPERORS GATE, LONDON, SW7 4HJ
ODS code E87043
563 m
IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTH CENTRE
40 PRINCES GARDENS, LONDON, SW7 1LY
ODS code E87677
627 m
BROMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE
237-335 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, LONDON, SW5 0EA
ODS code E87746
984 m
HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE, EARLS COURT
2B HOGARTH ROAD, LONDON, SW5 0PT
ODS code Y03441
993 m
EARLS COURT MEDICAL CENTRE
248 EARLS COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW5 9AD
ODS code E87047
1.0 km
SCARSDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
2 SCARSDALE PLACE, LONDON, W8 5SX
ODS code E87715
1.0 km
EARLS COURT SURGERY
269 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, EARLS COURT, LONDON, SW5 9JA
ODS code E87750
1.1 km
HEALTH PARTNERS AT VIOLET MELCHETT
30 FLOOD WALK, LONDON, SW3 5RR
ODS code E87004
1.2 km
THE CHELSEA PRACTICE
43 CHELSEA MANOR STREET, LONDON, SW3 5DD
ODS code E87665
1.2 km
THE ABINGDON HEALTH CENTRE
88-92 EARLS COURT ROAD, KENSINGTON, LONDON, W8 6EG
ODS code E87701
1.3 km
HOLLAND PARK SURGERY
LOWER GROUND FLOOR, 12 PHILLIMORE WALK, LONDON, W8 7RX
ODS code E87016
1.3 km
KNIGHTSBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
71-75 PAVILION ROAD, LONDON, SW1X 0ET
ODS code E87738
1.3 km
THE GOOD PRACTICE
KINGS ROAD, LONDON, SW10 0LR
ODS code E87762
1.4 km
KINGS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
529 KINGS ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW10 0UD
ODS code E87063
1.7 km
ROYAL HOSPITAL CHELSEA
ROYAL HOSPITAL ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW3 4SR
ODS code E87711
1.7 km
NORTH FULHAM SURGERY
82 LILLIE ROAD, LONDON, SW6 1TN
ODS code E85008
1.7 km
THE FULHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
446 FULHAM ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, SW6 1BG
ODS code E85118
1.9 km
Showing 20 of 133 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
Natural History Museum /Cromwell Road
BCT · South Kensington
- 0.0 miles
Harrington Road
BCT · South Kensington
- 0.1 miles
Natural History Museum /Queens Gate
BCT · South Kensington
- 0.1 miles
Stanhope Gardens
BCT · South Kensington
- 0.1 miles
Natural History Museum /Cromwell Road
BCT · South Kensington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kensington and Chelsea 016F, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,218 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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
13,701 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,141.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,789 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.