Property market
The five-year median is £1,070,000 from 7 recorded sales in SW8 2LS. 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 2LS
Vauxhall · Lambeth · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW8 2LS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW8
- Postcode sector
- SW8 2
- Latitude
- 51.486017
- Longitude
- -0.125594
- British National Grid easting
- 530,241
- British National Grid northing
- 178,006
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lambeth · E09000022
- Electoral ward
- Vauxhall · E05014117
- Parish or community
- E43000212
- Westminster constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green · E14001559
- Output area
- E00177504
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 004G · E01033208
- 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
88 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 14, Flat 289, St George Wharf, London, SW8 2LS | 29 May 2026 | £500,000 |
| 14, Flat 253, St George Wharf, London, SW8 2LS | 12 November 2025 | £685,000 |
| 14, Flat 282, St George Wharf, London, SW8 2LS | 14 March 2025 | £1,500,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 348
- Primary
- 158
- Secondary
- 37
- 438 m
St Anne's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 482 m
Tachbrook Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 526 m
Wyvil Primary School and Resource Bases for Speech, Language and Communication Needs, and Autism
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 17,755
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,343
- Theft from the person 2,973
- Anti social behaviour 2,154
- Other theft 1,849
- Shoplifting 1,508
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 52
- Postcode households
- 28
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- SW8 2 residents
- 12,494
25 female, 27 male
Age bands in SW8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 16%
- Age 25 to 44
- 41.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 6.7%
1,682 residents
1,944 residents
5,053 residents
2,648 residents
811 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SW8 2 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
120
within 5 km
GRAY'S INN MEDICAL GROUP VAUXHALL
8 JONATHAN STREET, KENNINGTON, LONDON, SE11 5NH
ODS code G85102
664 m
MAWBEY GROUP PRACTICE
MAWBREY BROUGH HEALTH CENTRE, 39 WILCOX CLOSE, LONDON, SW8 2UD
ODS code G85130
750 m
PIMLICO HEALTH AT THE MARVEN SURGERY
46-50 LUPUS STREET, WESTMINSTER, LONDON, SW1V 3EB
ODS code E87034
887 m
MILLBANK MEDICAL CENTRE
MEDICAL CENTRE BUILDING, 20 PAGE STREET, LONDON, SW1P 4EN
ODS code E87739
947 m
THE SOUTH LAMBETH RD PRACTICE
1 SELWAY HOUSE, 272 SOUTH LAMBETH ROAD, LONDON, SW8 1UL
ODS code G85086
1.1 km
THE DR HICKEY SURGERY FOR THE HOMELESS
3-7 ARNEWAY STREET, LONDON, SW1P 2BG
ODS code E87740
1.2 km
VICTORIA MEDICAL CENTRE
29 UPPER TACHBROOK STREET, LONDON, SW1V 1SN
ODS code E87002
1.2 km
HURLEY AND RIVERSIDE PRACTICES
EBENEZER HOUSE, KENNINGTON LANE, LONDON, SE11 4HJ
ODS code G85053
1.4 km
BINFIELD ROAD SURGERY
1 BINFIELD ROAD, LONDON, SW4 6TB
ODS code G85123
1.5 km
VASSALL MEDICAL CENTRE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 89 VASSALL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6NA
ODS code G85073
1.5 km
THE GRANTHAM PRACTICE
275-277 CLAPHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9BH
ODS code Y00020
1.7 km
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code G85673
1.8 km
STOCKWELLBEING AH
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code Y05187
1.8 km
WATERLOO HEALTH CENTRE
114-118 LOWER MARSH, WATERLOO, LONDON, SE1 7AE
ODS code G85136
1.8 km
AKERMAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85695
1.8 km
FIVEWAYS PCN EA HUB
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code Y05161
1.8 km
LAMBETH WALK GROUP PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85054
1.8 km
MINET GREEN HEALTH PRACTICE
AKERMAN HEALTH CENTRE, 60 PATMOS ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6AF
ODS code G85135
1.8 km
BECKETT HOUSE PRACTICE
BECKET HOUSE SURGERY, GRANTHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9DL
ODS code G85100
1.8 km
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE
THE SURGERY, 13 PIMLICO ROAD, LONDON, SW1W 8NA
ODS code E87753
1.9 km
Showing 20 of 120 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Vauxhall St. George Wharf Pier
FTD · Vauxhall
- 0.0 miles
Vauxhall Underground Station
PLT · Vauxhall
- 0.0 miles
Vauxhall
TMU · Vauxhall
- 0.1 miles
Vauxhall
TMU · Vauxhall
- 0.1 miles
Vauxhall Underground Station
MET · Vauxhall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 004G, 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
20,538 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
Schools
348 open schools are in scope, including 158 primary and 37 secondary schools. St Anne's Catholic Primary School is the nearest published school at 438 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
17,755 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,479.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,343 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.