SE1 2EA Southwark

Live postcode, introduced June 1997. Ward: North Bermondsey. Region: London.

Streets

  • : 54 addresses

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.

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£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 G (28% of about 740 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), 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: yes, St Saviours Dock (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 8.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

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

No address in this postcode is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 53 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 53 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 100%, gigabit 100% 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 stationsWapping 2.5 million journeys in 2024–251.0 km
London Bridge 55 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km
London Fenchurch Street 11 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km
Underground, metro or tramBermondsey Underground Station620 m
Tower Hill Underground Station1.0 km
Tower Gateway DLR Station1.0 km
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m, 42 within 800 m; nearest Dockhead Bermondsey250 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus5.0 km
Ferry terminalWapping Pier540 m
Car parks7 within 800 m; nearest Q-Park Tower Bridge240 m
EV charging points24 within 1.6 km; nearest ubitricity420 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY8.7 km
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR27.3 km

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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km; nearest The New Mill Street Surgery130 m
Pharmacies23 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest The Wellness Pharmacy410 m
NHS dentists25 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Londent Oral Care410 m
HospitalGuy's Hospital1.2 km
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service820 m
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest ATM630 m

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 garden10 within 800 m; nearest Hermitage Riverside Memorial Gardens 3,670 m²380 m
Largest park within 800 mKing Stairs Gardens 2.6 ha800 m
Play area24 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 420 m²190 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 7,090 m²680 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 970 m²820 m

Within 800 m: 10 parks and gardens, 8.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Roman Catholic Church of The Most Holy Trinity, a listed building (Grade II*), 220 m south-west. 184 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 11 of them Grade I and 7 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Roman Catholic Church of The Most Holy TrinityListed building, Grade II*220 m south-west
Tower Bridge (That Part That Lies Within the Borough of Southwark)Listed building, Grade I520 m north-west
Church of St JamesListed building, Grade II*580 m south-east
Tower Bridge (That Part in London Borough of Tower Hamlets)Listed building, Grade I590 m north-west
Medieval moated manor house, 43m west of Cathay HouseScheduled monument780 m east
Tower of LondonScheduled monument830 m north-west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site830 m north-west
Abbey buildings, BermondseyScheduled monument840 m south-west
Southwark ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km south-east
Finsbury CircusRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.1 km north-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Upper PoolTidal water430 m north-west
St Katharine Docks BasinLake or reservoir580 m north
East DockLake or reservoir620 m north
RedriffWetland1.9 km east
Stave HillHill2.1 km east
Russia Dock WoodlandWood2.2 km east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)24.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.6205
Particles (PM10)15.74015

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

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
Under 555454

None of the postcode's 54 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road or rail traffic.

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: 155 residents in 85 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 age3540
Children under 155%17%
Aged 65 and over5%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)42%61%
Owned outright20%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented55%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work86%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)80%32%
Travel to work by car or vanunder 1%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)92%65%
Work 30 km or more away0%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)88%34%
No qualifications2%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 10 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.

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