SE12 postcode district: Lewisham and around

SE12 is a postcode district in England, with 514 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in Lewisham, Greenwich and Bromley. It is split between 3 councils: Lewisham (388 postcodes), Greenwich (125) and Bromley (1).

Postcodes in use: 514
Sectors: 4
Councils: 3 councils
Places: 3 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in SE12, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 9
In use before 2020: 505
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 514 postcodes in SE12 that ONS places, 9 are new since 2020 and 505 were in use before 2020.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.4445, longitude 0.0199. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The 5 newest postcodes

SE12 2ERApril 2026 SE12 2EQJanuary 2026 SE12 2ENNovember 2025 SE12 2EEAugust 2023 SE12 2DZDecember 2022

Where the new postcodes lie together

6 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. SE12 2ER, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in SE12?

Ofcom reports on 497 of the 514 postcodes in SE12. At 396 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit396 of 497

Postcodes where every home can get superfast487 of 497

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is SE12 at risk of flooding?

77 of the 514 postcodes in SE12 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 799 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 77 of 514 postcodes High: 295Medium: 504Low: 257Very low: 219

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in SE12?

Homes in SE12 sold for a typical £487,725 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 207 sales, up 8.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£487,725 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£450,000 12 months to August 2025

▲ up 8.4% on the 12 months before

Detached £810,000 10 sales
Semi-detached £697,500 46 sales
Terraced £550,000 79 sales
Flat or maisonette £321,250 72 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it