Schools
317 open schools are in scope, including 152 primary and 38 secondary schools. Platanos College is the nearest published school at 217 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SW8 1UG
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 1UG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2024
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW8
- Postcode sector
- SW8 1
- Latitude
- 51.472703
- Longitude
- -0.122511
- British National Grid easting
- 530,493
- British National Grid northing
- 176,531
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
- E00015773
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 008D · E01003126
- Middle layer super output area
- Lambeth 008 · E02000625
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
- 317
- Primary
- 152
- Secondary
- 38
- 217 m
Platanos College
Academy converter
- 326 m
Allen Edwards Primary School
Community school
- 485 m
St Andrew's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 19,165
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,693
- Theft from the person 2,576
- Shoplifting 2,081
- Anti social behaviour 2,017
- Other theft 1,662
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
110
within 5 km straight-line
BINFIELD ROAD SURGERY
1 BINFIELD ROAD, LONDON, SW4 6TB
ODS code G85123
78 m
THE GRANTHAM PRACTICE
275-277 CLAPHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9BH
ODS code Y00020
280 m
BECKETT HOUSE PRACTICE
BECKET HOUSE SURGERY, GRANTHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9DL
ODS code G85100
364 m
THE SOUTH LAMBETH RD PRACTICE
1 SELWAY HOUSE, 272 SOUTH LAMBETH ROAD, LONDON, SW8 1UL
ODS code G85086
437 m
STOCKWELL GROUP PRACTICE
107 STOCKWELL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 9TJ
ODS code G85028
624 m
MAWBEY GROUP PRACTICE
MAWBREY BROUGH HEALTH CENTRE, 39 WILCOX CLOSE, LONDON, SW8 2UD
ODS code G85130
756 m
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code G85673
780 m
STOCKWELLBEING AH
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code Y05187
780 m
VASSALL MEDICAL CENTRE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 89 VASSALL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6NA
ODS code G85073
1.1 km
SANDMERE PRACTICE
10-14 SANDMERE ROAD, CLAPHAM, LONDON, SW4 7QJ
ODS code G85083
1.2 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
DR CURRAN & PARTNERS
THE CLAPHAM MANOR HEALTH CENTRE, 86 CLAPHAM MANOR STREET, LONDON, SW4 6EB
ODS code G85708
1.3 km
HETHERINGTON AT THE PAVILION
9 BRIGHTON TERRACE, LONDON, SW9 8DJ
ODS code Y03063
1.3 km
LARC CLINIC (LA)
9 BRIGHTON TERRACE, BRIXTON, LONDON, SW9 8DJ
ODS code Y05163
1.3 km
CLAPHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
MARY SEACOLE CENTRE, 89 CLAPHAM HIGH STREET, LONDON, SW4 7DB
ODS code G85011
1.3 km
HETHERINGTON GROUP PRACTICE
18 HETHERINGTON ROAD, LONDON, SW4 7NU
ODS code G85045
1.4 km
GRAFTON SQUARE SURGERY
8B GRAFTON SQUARE, LONDON, SW4 0DE
ODS code G85674
1.5 km
Showing 20 of 110 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Stockwell Station
TMU · Stockwell
- 0.0 miles
Binfield Road / Stockwell Station
BCT · Stockwell
- 0.0 miles
Stockwell Station
TMU · Stockwell
- 0.0 miles
Stockwell Underground Station
MET · Stockwell
- 0.1 miles
Stockwell Underground Station
PLT · Stockwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 008D, 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
10,571 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 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
19,165 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,597.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,693 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.