Property market
The five-year median is £345,000 from 1 recorded sale in SW8 2RU. 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 2RU
Stockwell West & Larkhall · Lambeth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Local authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Clapham and Brixton Hill
- Postcode district
- SW8
- Postcode sector
- SW8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW8 2RU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW8
- Postcode sector
- SW8 2
- Latitude
- 51.472110
- Longitude
- -0.134371
- British National Grid easting
- 529,671
- British National Grid northing
- 176,444
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
- Clapham and Brixton Hill · E14001175
- Output area
- E00015589
- Lower layer super output area
- Lambeth 008A · E01003089
- 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
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Donnington House, Flat 15, Union Road, London, SW8 2RU | 14 January 2022 | £345,000 |
| Donnington House, Flat 15, Union Road, London, SW8 2RU | 27 August 2015 | £321,000 |
| Donnington House, Flat 20, Union Road, London, SW8 2RU | 1 August 2014 | £395,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 322
- Primary
- 150
- Secondary
- 38
- 362 m
Larkhall Primary Campus
Community school
- 366 m
Griffin Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 505 m
Allen Edwards Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 14,691
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,540
- Anti social behaviour 1,740
- Theft from the person 1,733
- Shoplifting 1,696
- Other theft 1,316
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 88
- Postcode households
- 24
- Residents per household
- 3.7
- SW8 2 residents
- 12,494
36 female, 52 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 0.7% 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
118
within 5 km
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code G85673
160 m
STOCKWELLBEING AH
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE, 110 UNION ROAD, LONDON, SW8 2SH
ODS code Y05187
160 m
THE GRANTHAM PRACTICE
275-277 CLAPHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9BH
ODS code Y00020
725 m
BINFIELD ROAD SURGERY
1 BINFIELD ROAD, LONDON, SW4 6TB
ODS code G85123
749 m
DR CURRAN & PARTNERS
THE CLAPHAM MANOR HEALTH CENTRE, 86 CLAPHAM MANOR STREET, LONDON, SW4 6EB
ODS code G85708
783 m
BECKETT HOUSE PRACTICE
BECKET HOUSE SURGERY, GRANTHAM ROAD, STOCKWELL, LONDON, SW9 9DL
ODS code G85100
808 m
THE SOUTH LAMBETH RD PRACTICE
1 SELWAY HOUSE, 272 SOUTH LAMBETH ROAD, LONDON, SW8 1UL
ODS code G85086
895 m
GRAFTON SQUARE SURGERY
8B GRAFTON SQUARE, LONDON, SW4 0DE
ODS code G85674
938 m
CLAPHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
MARY SEACOLE CENTRE, 89 CLAPHAM HIGH STREET, LONDON, SW4 7DB
ODS code G85011
1.0 km
MAWBEY GROUP PRACTICE
MAWBREY BROUGH HEALTH CENTRE, 39 WILCOX CLOSE, LONDON, SW8 2UD
ODS code G85130
1.0 km
SANDMERE PRACTICE
10-14 SANDMERE ROAD, CLAPHAM, LONDON, SW4 7QJ
ODS code G85083
1.2 km
QUEENSTOWN ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
14 QUEENSTOWN ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW8 3RX
ODS code H85003
1.2 km
STOCKWELL GROUP PRACTICE
107 STOCKWELL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 9TJ
ODS code G85028
1.3 km
HETHERINGTON GROUP PRACTICE
18 HETHERINGTON ROAD, LONDON, SW4 7NU
ODS code G85045
1.3 km
BATTERSEA FIELDS PRACTICE
3 AUSTIN ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 5JP
ODS code H85111
1.4 km
LAVENDER HILL GROUP PRACTICE
19 POUNTNEY ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, SW11 5TU
ODS code H85069
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
PIMLICO HEALTH AT THE MARVEN SURGERY
46-50 LUPUS STREET, WESTMINSTER, LONDON, SW1V 3EB
ODS code E87034
1.8 km
VASSALL MEDICAL CENTRE
DOCTORS SURGERY, 89 VASSALL ROAD, LONDON, SW9 6NA
ODS code G85073
1.9 km
Showing 20 of 118 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
Union Road Clapham
BCT · Clapham North
- 0.1 miles
Union Road Clapham
BCT · Clapham North
- 0.1 miles
Clyston Street
BCT · Clapham North
- 0.1 miles
Blore Close
BCT · Clapham North
- 0.2 miles
Pensbury Street
BCT · Clapham North
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lambeth 008A, 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
10,136 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
Schools
322 open schools are in scope, including 150 primary and 38 secondary schools. Larkhall Primary Campus is the nearest published school at 362 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
14,691 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,224.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,540 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.