Wandsworth
Wandsworth is covered by postcode districts SW1P, SW11, SW12, SW15, SW17, SW18 and 12 more. It is mostly in the Wandsworth council area: 6,230 of its 6,251 postcodes. The others are in Lambeth and Richmond upon Thames.
Every postcode in Wandsworth, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 64
- At medium risk at worst: 103
- At low risk at worst: 300
- At very low risk only: 713
- Not on the at-risk list: 5,071
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 6,251 postcodes in Wandsworth that ONS places, 64 have a home or business at high risk, 103 are at medium risk at worst, 300 are at low risk at worst, 713 are at very low risk only and 5,071 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
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 51.4553, longitude -0.1786. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 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.
The postcodes at high risk
64 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 95 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SW18 4QD, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 45 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SW18 4GB, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 9 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SW17 0BA, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Wandsworth?
Homes sold for a typical £625,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, down 3.8% on the 12 months before. At 4,428 of the 5,670 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3,455 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1,180 of its 6,251 postcodes. It has at least 72 primary schools, 17 secondary schools and 2 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 Wandsworth Town, 900 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
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 Wandsworth?
Homes in Wandsworth sold for a typical £625,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 3,474 sales, down 3.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £2,550,000 34 sales
- Semi-detached £1,476,000 161 sales
- Terraced £1,000,000 930 sales
- Flat or maisonette £500,000 2,349 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole SW11 district, Wandsworth's main postcode district: a typical £730,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Wandsworth: 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 Wandsworth?
454 of the 6,251 postcodes now in use in Wandsworth came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 300 of the 5,233 homes sold in Wandsworth were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SW11 district, 13%.
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
| Period | In Wandsworth | Across the SW11 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 45 of 3,474 (1%) | 19 of 834 (2%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 300 of 5,233 (6%) | 173 of 1,371 (13%) |
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 Wandsworth?
Ofcom reports on 5,670 of the 6,251 postcodes in Wandsworth. At 4,428 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 Wandsworth at risk of flooding?
1,180 of the 6,251 postcodes in Wandsworth 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 3,455 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 Wandsworth?
The open schools at the postcodes in Wandsworth (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.
Primary
- Wandsworth Preparatory School400 m 80 pupils, 150 places
- Allfarthing Primary School550 m 397 pupils, 409 places
- Swaffield School650 m
- St Faith's CofE Primary School700 m 187 pupils, 201 places
- ARK John Archer Primary Academy800 m 195 pupils, 419 places
- Anglo Portuguese School of London900 m 159 pupils, 210 places
- Dolphin School (Incorporating Noahs Ark Nursery Schools)900 m 140 pupils, 311 places
- Belleville Primary School1.0 km 1,031 pupils, 922 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Wandsworth?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Wandsworth is Wandsworth Town Rail Station, 900 m away in a straight line.
- Wandsworth Town Rail Station Railway station 900 mWalk
- Clapham Junction Rail Station Railway station 1.1 kmWalk
- Clapham Junction Rail Station Railway station 1.1 kmWalk
- Clapham South Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 2.2 kmCycle
- Balham Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 2.2 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 Wandsworth?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Wandsworth, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Haider Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2024 · Phone 020 8812 4170 550 mWalk
- St Johns Hill Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 020 8812 5350 550 mWalk
- Bolingbroke Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 020 7801 1460 750 mWalk
- Wandsworth Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 020 3006 2741 950 mWalk
- Brocklebank Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 020 3818 8270 1.0 kmWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Wandsworth safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 9,633 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Wandsworth 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
- 784 September 2025
- 922 October 2025
- 778 November 2025
- 675 December 2025
- 735 January 2026
- 722 February 2026
- 716 March 2026
- 828 April 2026
- 877 May 2026
- 802 June 2026
- 941 July 2026
- 853 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: criminal damage and arson 276, robbery 262, theft from the person 247, bicycle theft 227, other crime 143, possession of weapons 61.
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.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Wandsworth?
- Councils
- Wandsworth (6,230), Lambeth (20) and Richmond upon Thames (1)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Battersea (2,450), Putney (2,093), Tooting (1,687) and 4 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.
Moving to Wandsworth
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Wandsworth is in Wandsworth; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Wandsworth about council tax Council tax, on wandsworth.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Wandsworth
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Wandsworth postcodes
6,251 postcodes in use in Wandsworth, by district:
Those districts are all in the SW postcode area.
Check a Wandsworth postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Wandsworth
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Wandsworth's £625,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Wandsworth
- What is the postcode for Wandsworth?
- Postcode districts SW1P, SW11, SW12, SW15, SW17, SW18 and 12 more, with 6,251 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Wandsworth?
- A typical £625,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 3,474 sales, down 3.8% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Wandsworth?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Wandsworth Preparatory School, Allfarthing Primary School and Swaffield School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Emanuel School, Ark Bolingbroke Academy and Thames Christian School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Wandsworth have a railway station?
- Yes: Wandsworth Town station, 900 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Wandsworth?
- Ofcom reports on 5,670 of the 6,251 postcodes in Wandsworth. At 4,428 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Wandsworth at risk of flooding?
- 1,180 of the 6,251 postcodes in Wandsworth 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 3,455 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Wandsworth?
- 454 of the 6,251 postcodes now in use in Wandsworth came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 300 of the 5,233 homes sold in Wandsworth were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SW11 district, 13%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
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. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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