SW12 postcode district: Wandsworth and around
SW12 is a postcode district in England, with 594 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in Wandsworth and Lambeth. It is split between 2 councils: Wandsworth (437 postcodes) and Lambeth (157).
- Postcodes in use
- 594
- Sectors
- 4
- Councils
- 2 councils
- Places
- 2 places
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Every postcode in SW12, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 16
- Some can get gigabit: 64
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 496
- Ofcom gives no figure: 18
Of the 594 postcodes in SW12 that ONS places, 16 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 64 have some that can, 496 can all get it and 18 have no Ofcom figure.
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. 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 51.4463, longitude -0.1491. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
What broadband can you get in SW12?
Ofcom reports on 576 of the 594 postcodes in SW12. At 496 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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 checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is SW12 at risk of flooding?
None of the 594 postcodes in SW12 is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
What do homes sell for in SW12?
Homes in SW12 sold for a typical £700,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 373 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £705,000 from 597 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached 2 sales, too few to price
- Semi-detached £1,503,000 19 sales
- Terraced £1,251,000 104 sales
- Flat or maisonette £575,000 248 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 October 2026.
Postcodes in SW12
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in SW12
Towns and villages with postcodes in SW12, and how many each has here.
Who covers SW12
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
- Wandsworth437
- Lambeth157
Constituencies
- Battersea254
- Tooting183
- Clapham and Brixton Hill156
- Streatham and Croydon North1
Police force areas
- Metropolitan Police594
Next to SW12
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after SW12 in the SW area.
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Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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