Schools
318 open schools are in scope, including 149 primary and 37 secondary schools. Platanos College is the nearest published school at 240 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW8 1JL
Stockwell West & Larkhall · Lambeth · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 1JL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2001
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW8
- Postcode sector
- SW8 1
- Latitude
- 51.475868
- Longitude
- -0.121301
- British National Grid easting
- 530,568
- British National Grid northing
- 176,885
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lambeth · E09000022
- Electoral ward
- Stockwell West & Larkhall · E05014111
- Parish or community
- E43000212
- Westminster constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green · E14001559
- Output area
- E00015760
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 006E · E01003125
- Middle layer super output area
- Lambeth 006 · E02000623
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
- 318
- Primary
- 149
- Secondary
- 37
- 240 m
Platanos College
Academy converter
- 436 m
St Stephen's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 444 m
Herbert Morrison Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 17,048
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,354
- Theft from the person 2,290
- Anti social behaviour 1,911
- Shoplifting 1,756
- Other theft 1,470
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SW8 1 residents
- 11,710
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
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.
GP practices
108
within 5 km straight-line
THE SOUTH LAMBETH RD PRACTICE
1 SELWAY HOUSE, 272 SOUTH LAMBETH ROAD, LONDON, SW8 1UL
ODS code G85086
181 m
BINFIELD ROAD SURGERY
1 BINFIELD ROAD, LONDON, SW4 6TB
ODS code G85123
395 m
MAWBEY GROUP PRACTICE
MAWBREY BROUGH HEALTH CENTRE, 39 WILCOX CLOSE, LONDON, SW8 2UD
ODS code G85130
467 m
THE GRANTHAM PRACTICE
275-277 CLAPHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9BH
ODS code Y00020
638 m
BECKETT HOUSE PRACTICE
BECKET HOUSE SURGERY, GRANTHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9DL
ODS code G85100
726 m
STOCKWELL GROUP PRACTICE
107 STOCKWELL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 9TJ
ODS code G85028
910 m
VASSALL MEDICAL CENTRE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 89 VASSALL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6NA
ODS code G85073
910 m
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code G85673
1.0 km
STOCKWELLBEING AH
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code Y05187
1.0 km
AKERMAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85695
1.1 km
FIVEWAYS PCN EA HUB
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code Y05161
1.1 km
LAMBETH WALK GROUP PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85054
1.1 km
MINET GREEN HEALTH PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85135
1.1 km
SANDMERE PRACTICE
10-14 SANDMERE ROAD, CLAPHAM, LONDON, SW4 7QJ
ODS code G85083
1.5 km
GRAY'S INN MEDICAL GROUP VAUXHALL
8 JONATHAN STREET, KENNINGTON, LONDON, SE11 5NH
ODS code G85102
1.6 km
DR CURRAN & PARTNERS
THE CLAPHAM MANOR HEALTH CENTRE, 86 CLAPHAM MANOR STREET, LONDON, SW4 6EB
ODS code G85708
1.6 km
HETHERINGTON AT THE PAVILION
9 BRIGHTON TERRACE, LONDON, SW9 8DJ
ODS code Y03063
1.6 km
LARC CLINIC (LA)
9 BRIGHTON TERRACE, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW9 8DJ
ODS code Y05163
1.6 km
CLAPHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
MARY SEACOLE CENTRE, 89 CLAPHAM HIGH STREET, LONDON, SW4 7DB
ODS code G85011
1.7 km
HETHERINGTON GROUP PRACTICE
18 HETHERINGTON ROAD, LONDON, SW4 7NU
ODS code G85045
1.7 km
Showing 20 of 108 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lansdowne Way
BCT · Stockwell
- 0.1 miles
Thorne Road
BCT · South Lambeth
- 0.1 miles
Lansdowne Way
BCT · Stockwell
- 0.1 miles
Albert Square
BCT · South Lambeth
- 0.1 miles
Lansdowne Way
BCT · Stockwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 006E, 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
8,770 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
17,048 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,420.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,354 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.