Southwark

What is it like to live in Southwark?

Homes sold for a typical £525,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, down 3.7% on the 12 months before. At 4,627 of the 5,973 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 12 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2,792 of its 7,236 postcodes. It has at least 69 primary schools, 20 secondary schools and 5 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Peckham Rye, 1.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Southwark?

Homes in Southwark sold for a typical £525,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 2,105 sales, down 3.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

• Detached £1,750,000 22 sales
• Semi-detached £1,360,000 113 sales
• Terraced £875,000 413 sales
• Flat or maisonette £450,000 1,557 sales

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

Across the whole SE1 district, Southwark's main postcode district: a typical £565,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Southwark: 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.

Are new homes being built in Southwark?

451 of the 7,236 postcodes now in use in Southwark came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 47 of the 3,181 homes sold in Southwark were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SE1 district, 2%.

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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Southwark?

Ofcom reports on 5,973 of the 7,236 postcodes in Southwark. At 4,627 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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Southwark at risk of flooding?

2,792 of the 7,236 postcodes in Southwark 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 12 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Southwark?

The open schools at the postcodes in Southwark (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Southwark?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Southwark is Peckham Rye Rail Station, 1.7 km away in a straight line.

• Peckham Rye Rail Station Railway station 1.7 kmCycle
• Peckham Rye Rail Station Railway station 1.7 kmCycle
• South Bermondsey Rail Station Railway station 1.7 kmCycle
• Bermondsey Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 1.8 kmCycle
• Elephant & Castle Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 2.0 kmCycle

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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Southwark?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Southwark, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• East Street Phone 020 7703 4550 700 mWalk
• Old Kent Road Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 020 7252 6272 750 mWalk
• The Villa Street Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 020 7703 7393 800 mWalk
• Silverlock Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 020 7237 4091 1.0 kmWalk
• The Lister Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 020 3474 5570 1.1 kmWalk

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Southwark safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 19,855 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Southwark 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 886, robbery 756, criminal damage and arson 565, bicycle theft 423, other crime 197, possession of weapons 163.

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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Southwark?

Councils

Southwark (7,209) and Lambeth (27)

Parliamentary constituencies

Bermondsey and Old Southwark (3,560), Peckham (2,012), Dulwich and West Norwood (579) and 2 others

Police force area

Metropolitan Police

Region

London

Country

England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.