SE17 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

685 of the district's 1,197 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 51.48835, -0.09339, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SE17

Companies House lists 2,184 companies with a registered office in SE17; 31 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for SE17

• London
• Southwark
• Greater London

Roads filed under SE17

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Alberta Street
• Aldbridge Street
• Alsace Road
• Alvey Street
• Ambergate Street
• Amelia Street
• Angel Lane
• Arnside Street
• Ash Avenue
• Asolando Drive
• Aylesbury Road
• Bagshot Street
• Balfour Street
• Barlow Street
• Baytree Mews
• Beaconsfield Road
• Beckford Place
• Beckway Street
• Berryfield Road
• Blackwood Street
• Bodley Way
• Borrett Close
• Boundary Lane
• Boyson Road
• Bradenham Close
• Braganza Street
• Brandon Street
• Brettell Street
• Bronti Close
• Browning Street
• Burton Grove
• Cadiz Street
• Canterbury Place
• Carter Place
• Carter Street
• Catesby Street
• Chalmer's Walk
• Chapter Road
• Charleston Street
• Chatham Street
• Chatteris Way
• Cherrill Street
• Colworth Grove
• Comus Place
• Congreve Street
• Content Street
• Cook's Road
• Copley Close
• Cotham Street
• Crail Row
• Crampton Street
• Crosslet Street
• Dale Road
• Danson Mews
• Dartford Street
• Darwin Street
• Date Street
• Dawes Street
• Deacon Street
• Dean's Buildings

Check an address in SE17

Check an address in SE17

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SE17" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SE17

What does an SE17 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SE17 district of the SE (South East London) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is London. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 685 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest SE17

• SE1P1.0 km
• SE11.2 km
• SE111.3 km
• SE51.6 km
• EC4R2.5 km
• SW92.5 km
• EC3R2.6 km
• SE152.6 km
• EC4V2.7 km
• EC4N2.7 km
• EC3M2.7 km
• SW1P2.7 km
• Every district
• How a British address is written
• Check any address

distance between the districts' centroids