Schools
338 open schools are in scope, including 142 primary and 31 secondary schools. Ashbourne College is the nearest published school at 91 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
W8 5DZ
Queen's Gate · Kensington and Chelsea · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Queen's Gate
- Local authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater
- Postcode district
- W8
- Postcode sector
- W8 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- W8 5DZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- W
- Postcode district
- W8
- Postcode sector
- W8 5
- Latitude
- 51.501916
- Longitude
- -0.189723
- British National Grid easting
- 525,745
- British National Grid northing
- 179,662
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Kensington and Chelsea · E09000020
- Electoral ward
- Queen's Gate · E05009401
- Parish or community
- E43000210
- Westminster constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater · E14001310
- Output area
- E00014520
- Lower layer super output area
- Kensington and Chelsea 010B · E01002889
- Middle layer super output area
- Kensington and Chelsea 010 · E02000586
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 W8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 338
- Primary
- 142
- Secondary
- 31
- 91 m
Ashbourne College
Other independent school
- 173 m
St Mary Abbots CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 365 m
Thomas's Kensington
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 12,779
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,629
- Other theft 2,011
- Anti social behaviour 1,538
- Theft from the person 1,143
- Shoplifting 1,075
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- W8 5 residents
- 4,475
Age bands in W8 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.7%
612 residents
599 residents
1,312 residents
1,450 residents
576 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
126
within 5 km straight-line
SCARSDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
2 SCARSDALE PLACE, LONDON, W8 5SX
ODS code E87715
320 m
HOLLAND PARK SURGERY
LOWER GROUND FLOOR, 12 PHILLIMORE WALK, LONDON, W8 7RX
ODS code E87016
330 m
THE SURGERY
7 KYNANCE PLACE, LONDON, SW7 4QS
ODS code E87702
599 m
EMPEROR'S GATE SURGERY
FIRST FLOOR, 49 EMPERORS GATE, LONDON, SW7 4HJ
ODS code E87043
668 m
THE ABINGDON HEALTH CENTRE
88-92 EARLS COURT ROAD, KENSINGTON, LONDON, W8 6EG
ODS code E87701
827 m
STANHOPE MEWS SURGERY
7 STANHOPE MEWS WEST, LONDON, SW7 5RB
ODS code E87013
990 m
HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE, EARLS COURT
2B HOGARTH ROAD, LONDON, SW5 0PT
ODS code Y03441
1.0 km
EARLS COURT MEDICAL CENTRE
248 EARLS COURT ROAD, LONDON, SW5 9AD
ODS code E87047
1.1 km
LANCASTER GATE MEDICAL CENTRE
LEINSTER TERRACE, LONDON, W2 3ET
ODS code E87722
1.2 km
ROSARY GARDEN SURGERY
45 ROSARY GARDENS, LONDON, SW7 4NQ
ODS code E87048
1.2 km
IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTH CENTRE
40 PRINCES GARDENS, LONDON, SW7 1LY
ODS code E87677
1.3 km
THE PEMBRIDGE VILLAS SURGERY
45A PEMBRIDGE VILLAS, LONDON, W11 3EP
ODS code E87061
1.3 km
BROMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE
237-335 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, LONDON, SW5 0EA
ODS code E87746
1.4 km
PORTLAND ROAD PRACTICE
16 PORTLAND ROAD, LONDON, W11 4LA
ODS code E87029
1.4 km
KENSINGTON PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
75 RUSSELL ROAD, LONDON, W14 8HW
ODS code E87720
1.4 km
EARLS COURT SURGERY
269 OLD BROMPTON ROAD, EARLS COURT, LONDON, SW5 9JA
ODS code E87750
1.5 km
THE GARWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
PICKERING HOUSE, HALLFIELD ESTATE, LONDON, W2 6HF
ODS code E87009
1.5 km
WESTBOURNE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
241 WESTBOURNE GROVE, LONDON, W11 2SE
ODS code E87007
1.6 km
NEWTON MEDICAL CENTRE
BAYSWATER CENTRE 14-18, NEWTON ROAD, LONDON, W2 5LT
ODS code E87681
1.6 km
NORTH FULHAM SURGERY
82 LILLIE ROAD, LONDON, SW6 1TN
ODS code E85008
1.9 km
Showing 20 of 126 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Kensington Palace
BCT · Kensington
- 0.1 miles
Kensington Palace
BCT · Kensington
- 0.1 miles
High Street Kensington Station
BCT · High Street Kensington
- 0.1 miles
High Street Kensington Station
BCT · High Street Kensington
- 0.1 miles
Holland St /High St Kensington
BCT · Kensington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Kensington and Chelsea 010B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,445 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
12,779 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,064.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,629 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.