Clapham

What is it like to live in Clapham?

Homes sold for a typical £295,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 2.8% on the 12 months before. At 65 of the 83 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 41 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 16 of its 84 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Bedford, 3.5 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Clapham?

Homes in Clapham sold for a typical £295,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 46 sales, up 2.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

• Detached £597,500 6 sales
• Semi-detached £300,000 22 sales
• Terraced £260,000 17 sales
• Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

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

Across the whole MK41 district, Clapham's main postcode district: a typical £350,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Clapham: 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

Are new homes being built in Clapham?

1 of the 84 postcodes now in use in Clapham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 83 homes sold in Clapham were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the MK41 district, 0%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Clapham?

Ofcom reports on 83 of the 84 postcodes in Clapham. At 65 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.

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

Is Clapham at risk of flooding?

16 of the 84 postcodes in Clapham 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 41 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

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

Which schools are in Clapham?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Clapham. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Clapham?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Clapham is Bedford Rail Station, 3.5 km away in a straight line.

• Bedford Rail Station Railway station 3.5 kmCycle
• Bedford St Johns Rail Station Railway station 4.5 kmCycle
• Kempston Hardwick Rail Station Railway station 8.1 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Clapham?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Clapham. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Priory Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2026 · Phone 01234 262040 550 mWalk

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Clapham safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 257 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Clapham over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: burglary 6, drugs 3, possession of weapons 3, bicycle theft 2, theft from the person 1, robbery 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Clapham?

Council

Bedford

Parliamentary constituency

North Bedfordshire

Police force area

Bedfordshire

Region

East of England

Country

England

MP

Richard Fuller (Conservative)

All 84 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

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