Property market
The five-year median is £2,000,000 from 3 recorded sales in SW8 1JZ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Lambeth is £548,034 in June 2026, down 3.3% year on year.
SW8 1JZ
Oval · Lambeth · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW8 1JZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW8
- Postcode sector
- SW8 1
- Latitude
- 51.481565
- Longitude
- -0.121067
- British National Grid easting
- 530,568
- British National Grid northing
- 177,519
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
- E00015627
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 004I · E01033865
- 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
Property
50 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 121, Second Floor Flat, Fentiman Road, London, SW8 1JZ | 20 September 2024 | £707,000 |
| 115, Fentiman Road, London, SW8 1JZ | 6 September 2023 | £2,150,000 |
| 131, Fentiman Road, London, SW8 1JZ | 19 April 2023 | £2,000,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 338
- Primary
- 155
- Secondary
- 38
- 220 m
St Stephen's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 306 m
Wyvil Primary School and Resource Bases for Speech, Language and Communication Needs, and Autism
Foundation school
- 425 m
St Mark's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15,000
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,817
- Theft from the person 2,265
- Anti social behaviour 1,924
- Other theft 1,365
- Shoplifting 1,195
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 122
- Postcode households
- 52
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- SW8 1 residents
- 11,710
51 female, 71 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 1% 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+
- 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
116
within 5 km straight-line
MAWBEY GROUP PRACTICE
MAWBREY BROUGH HEALTH CENTRE, 39 WILCOX CLOSE, LONDON, SW8 2UD
ODS code G85130
384 m
THE SOUTH LAMBETH RD PRACTICE
1 SELWAY HOUSE, 272 SOUTH LAMBETH ROAD, LONDON, SW8 1UL
ODS code G85086
584 m
GRAY'S INN MEDICAL GROUP VAUXHALL
8 JONATHAN STREET, KENNINGTON, LONDON, SE11 5NH
ODS code G85102
938 m
VASSALL MEDICAL CENTRE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 89 VASSALL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6NA
ODS code G85073
981 m
BINFIELD ROAD SURGERY
1 BINFIELD ROAD, LONDON, SW4 6TB
ODS code G85123
1.0 km
THE GRANTHAM PRACTICE
275-277 CLAPHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9BH
ODS code Y00020
1.3 km
AKERMAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85695
1.3 km
FIVEWAYS PCN EA HUB
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code Y05161
1.3 km
LAMBETH WALK GROUP PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85054
1.3 km
MINET GREEN HEALTH PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85135
1.3 km
BECKETT HOUSE PRACTICE
BECKET HOUSE SURGERY, GRANTHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9DL
ODS code G85100
1.4 km
PIMLICO HEALTH AT THE MARVEN SURGERY
46-50 LUPUS STREET, WESTMINSTER, LONDON, SW1V 3EB
ODS code E87034
1.4 km
HURLEY AND RIVERSIDE PRACTICES
EBENEZER HOUSE, KENNINGTON LANE, LONDON, SE11 4HJ
ODS code G85053
1.4 km
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code G85673
1.5 km
STOCKWELLBEING AH
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code Y05187
1.5 km
MILLBANK MEDICAL CENTRE
MEDICAL CENTRE BUILDING, 20 PAGE STREET, LONDON, SW1P 4EN
ODS code E87739
1.5 km
STOCKWELL GROUP PRACTICE
107 STOCKWELL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 9TJ
ODS code G85028
1.5 km
THE DR HICKEY SURGERY FOR THE HOMELESS
3-7 ARNEWAY STREET, LONDON, SW1P 2BG
ODS code E87740
1.7 km
PENROSE SURGERY
33 PENROSE STREET, LONDON, SE17 3DW
ODS code G85084
1.7 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
29 UPPER TACHBROOK STREET, LONDON, SW1V 1SN
ODS code E87002
1.8 km
Showing 20 of 116 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Wheatsheaf Lane
BCT · South Lambeth
- 0.2 miles
Vauxhall Park
BCT · Vauxhall
- 0.2 miles
Wheatsheaf Lane
BCT · South Lambeth
- 0.2 miles
Tate Library
BCT · South Lambeth
- 0.2 miles
Vauxhall Park
BCT · Vauxhall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 004I, 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
22,131 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 18
- Low risk addresses
- 13
- 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
Schools
338 open schools are in scope, including 155 primary and 38 secondary schools. St Stephen's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 220 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
15,000 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,250 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,817 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.