Schools
327 open schools are in scope, including 152 primary and 38 secondary schools. Reay Primary School is the nearest published school at 226 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW8 1BX
Oval · Lambeth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Oval
- Local authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green
- Postcode district
- SW8
- Postcode sector
- SW8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW8 1BX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW8
- Postcode sector
- SW8 1
- Latitude
- 51.477205
- Longitude
- -0.118323
- British National Grid easting
- 530,771
- British National Grid northing
- 177,039
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lambeth · E09000022
- Electoral ward
- Oval · E05014108
- Parish or community
- E43000212
- Westminster constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green · E14001559
- Output area
- E00015792
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 004E · E01003129
- Middle layer super output area
- Lambeth 004 · E02000621
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 SW8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 327
- Primary
- 152
- Secondary
- 38
- 226 m
Reay Primary School
Foundation school
- 389 m
Platanos College
Academy converter
- 395 m
St Stephen's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15,937
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,262
- Theft from the person 2,116
- Anti social behaviour 1,943
- Other theft 1,344
- Shoplifting 1,286
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 1
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SW8 1 residents
- 11,710
0 female, 1 male
Age bands in SW8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11%
- Age 15 to 24
- 16.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 41.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.5%
1,304 residents
1,928 residents
4,887 residents
2,602 residents
1,121 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SW8 1 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 33.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 33.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 33.3%
- 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
107
within 5 km straight-line
THE SOUTH LAMBETH RD PRACTICE
1 SELWAY HOUSE, 272 SOUTH LAMBETH ROAD, LONDON, SW8 1UL
ODS code G85086
377 m
MAWBEY GROUP PRACTICE
MAWBREY BROUGH HEALTH CENTRE, 39 WILCOX CLOSE, LONDON, SW8 2UD
ODS code G85130
531 m
BINFIELD ROAD SURGERY
1 BINFIELD ROAD, LONDON, SW4 6TB
ODS code G85123
629 m
VASSALL MEDICAL CENTRE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 89 VASSALL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6NA
ODS code G85073
684 m
THE GRANTHAM PRACTICE
275-277 CLAPHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9BH
ODS code Y00020
858 m
AKERMAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85695
928 m
FIVEWAYS PCN EA HUB
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code Y05161
928 m
LAMBETH WALK GROUP PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85054
928 m
MINET GREEN HEALTH PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85135
928 m
BECKETT HOUSE PRACTICE
BECKET HOUSE SURGERY, GRANTHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9DL
ODS code G85100
931 m
STOCKWELL GROUP PRACTICE
107 STOCKWELL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 9TJ
ODS code G85028
1.0 km
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code G85673
1.3 km
STOCKWELLBEING AH
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code Y05187
1.3 km
GRAY'S INN MEDICAL GROUP VAUXHALL
8 JONATHAN STREET, KENNINGTON, LONDON, SE11 5NH
ODS code G85102
1.4 km
HURLEY AND RIVERSIDE PRACTICES
EBENEZER HOUSE, KENNINGTON LANE, LONDON, SE11 4HJ
ODS code G85053
1.7 km
HETHERINGTON AT THE PAVILION
9 BRIGHTON TERRACE, LONDON, SW9 8DJ
ODS code Y03063
1.7 km
LARC CLINIC (LA)
9 BRIGHTON TERRACE, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW9 8DJ
ODS code Y05163
1.7 km
SANDMERE PRACTICE
10-14 SANDMERE ROAD, CLAPHAM, LONDON, SW4 7QJ
ODS code G85083
1.7 km
CAMBERWELL GREEN SURGERY
17 CAMBERWELL GREEN, LONDON, SE5 7AF
ODS code G85013
1.8 km
THE CORNER SURGERY
99 COLDHARBOUR LANE, LONDON, SE5 9NS
ODS code G85127
1.8 km
Showing 20 of 107 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Albert Square
BCT · South Lambeth
- 0.1 miles
Albert Square
BCT · South Lambeth
- 0.1 miles
Dorset Road
BCT · South Lambeth
- 0.1 miles
Dorset Road
BCT · South Lambeth
- 0.2 miles
Thorne Road
BCT · South Lambeth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 004E, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,218 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
15,937 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,328.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,262 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.