SE1 0ED Southwark

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Borough & Bankside. Region: London.

Streets

Council tax

What each band costs in Southwark in 2026-27: Band D £1,967 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,312£1,530£1,749£1,967£2,404£2,842£3,279£3,935

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band B (43% of about 1,240 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Bankside and Borough District Town Centre, Bankside and Borough District Town Centre, Central Activities Zone, Central Activities Zone, Central Activities Zone.
  • Tree preservation orders: 1 protected tree within 100 m of this postcode.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

  • 4-7 Sudrey Street SE1 1PF, permissioned (50 m)
  • 4-7 Sudrey Street SE1 1PF, permissioned (50 m)
  • Land between Great Suffolk Street and Glasshill Street, not permissioned (110 m)
  • 98,Webber Street,,SE1 0QL (150 m)
  • 94 / Grotto Place And Grotto Podiums,Southwark Bridge Road,,SE1 0EG, permissioned (160 m)
  • London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority, permissioned (170 m)
  • Studio 1 Rushworth Studios 63 Webber Street SE1 0QW, permissioned (190 m)
  • Studio 1 Rushworth Studios 63 Webber Street SE1 0QW, permissioned (190 m)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 5 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 21 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 21 very low.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Height above sea level

The postcode's addresses are about 4 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 68%, gigabit 68% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsElephant and Castle 2.2 million journeys in 2024–25780 m (0.5 miles)
London Waterloo East 6.8 million journeys in 2024–25810 m (0.5 miles)
London Bridge 55 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tramBorough Underground Station340 m
Southwark Underground Station570 m (0.4 miles)
Elephant & Castle Underground Station740 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 72 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Great Suffolk Street Southwark20 m
Bus or coach stationVictoria Station3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Ferry terminalBankside Pier Southwark830 m (0.5 miles)
Car parks6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Borough Road Pay & Stay Car Park210 m
EV charging points36 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Station310 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY10.7 km (6.6 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR25.3 km (16 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Falmouth Road Group Practice590 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies20 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Qrystal Pharmacy250 m
NHS dentists21 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Borough Dental Practice250 m
HospitalGuy's Hospital840 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationSouthwark Police Station230 m
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM550 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,190 m²150 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park 6.4 ha750 m (0.5 miles)
Play area25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 330 m²50 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,070 m²680 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 590 m²880 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 14 parks and gardens, 14 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St George the Martyr, a listed building (Grade II*), 400 m (0.2 miles) east. 252 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 14 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Church of St George the MartyrListed building, Grade II*400 m (0.2 miles) east
Obelisk at the Centre of St George's CircusListed building, Grade II*520 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Kirkaldy's testing works and testing machineListed building, Grade II*590 m (0.4 miles) north-west
St Saviour’s War Memorial, SouthwarkListed building, Grade II*630 m (0.4 miles) north-east
The Globe TheatreScheduled monument690 m (0.4 miles) north
The Rose Theatre, Rose Court, SouthwarkScheduled monument720 m (0.4 miles) north
Roman riverboat, 136m west of Greenwood TheatreScheduled monument740 m (0.5 miles) east
Inner TempleRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Middle TempleRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
King's ReachTidal water1.6 km (1 mile) west
Upper PoolTidal water1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
West DockLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
RedriffWetland3.8 km (2.4 miles) east
Holly Grove ShrubberyWood3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-east
Stave HillHill4 km (2.5 miles) east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)28.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)10.1205
Particles (PM10)17.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; all three are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailwaysAircraft
70 to 743300
55 to 594370
Under 550037

37 of the postcode's 37 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 37 from railways, above the WHO guidelines.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 169 residents in 80 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age3340
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)35%61%
Owned outright11%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented24%17%
Private rented39%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work78%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)under 1%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)75%32%
Travel to work by car or van6%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram10%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)90%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)73%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 5 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Southwark Bridge Road.