SW2 postcode district: Lambeth and around
SW2 is a postcode district in England, with 1,034 postcodes in use in 6 sectors. It has postcodes in Lambeth. Its council is Lambeth.
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Every postcode in SW2, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 43
- Some can get gigabit: 74
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 891
- Ofcom gives no figure: 26
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together
Of the 1,034 postcodes in SW2 that ONS places, 43 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 74 have some that can, 891 can all get it and 26 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. 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.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.4493, longitude -0.1198. 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.
Postcodes without gigabit
43 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.
Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together
- 14 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. SW2 2QD, is the one nearest the middle of them.
What broadband can you get in SW2?
Ofcom reports on 1,008 of the 1,034 postcodes in SW2. At 891 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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 SW2 at risk of flooding?
None of the 1,034 postcodes in SW2 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 SW2?
Homes in SW2 sold for a typical £502,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 519 sales, down 7.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached 3 sales, too few to price
- Semi-detached £1,000,000 27 sales
- Terraced £900,000 103 sales
- Flat or maisonette £450,000 386 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 SW2
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
Places in SW2
Towns and villages with postcodes in SW2, and how many each has here.
Who covers SW2
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
- Lambeth1,034
Constituencies
- Clapham and Brixton Hill660
- Streatham and Croydon North261
- Dulwich and West Norwood113
Police force areas
- Metropolitan Police1,034
Next to SW2
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after SW2 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.
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.
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