SE2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

463 of the district's 673 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 51.48990, 0.11626, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SE2

Companies House lists 1,804 companies with a registered office in SE2; 61 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 SE2

• London
• Greater London
• Greenwich
• Bexley

Roads filed under SE2

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.

• Abbey Grove
• Abbey Terrace
• Abbey Wood Road
• Amberley Road
• Ampleforth Road
• Andwell Close
• Basildon Road
• Bastion Road
• Bayley Walk
• Belvedere Road
• Bendmore Avenue
• Bevan Road
• Birkdale Road
• Blithdale Road
• Bostall Hill
• Bostall Lane
• Bostall Manorway
• Boxgrove Road
• Bracondale Road
• Brimpsfield Close
• Brinkburn Close
• Brodrick Grove
• Bromholm Road
• Burcharbro Road
• Byland Close
• Camrose Street
• Carnation Street
• Cassilda Road
• Cemetery Road
• Chalcombe Road
• Chancelot Road
• Chantry Close
• Church Manorway
• Clapham Close
• Coltness Crescent
• Combwell Crescent
• Commonwealth Way
• Conference Road
• Congress Road
• Cook Close
• Cookhill Road
• Crumpsall Street
• Dahlia Road
• Dalberg Way
• De Lucy Street
• Devenish Road
• Dianthus Close
• Eastern Way
• Edington Road
• Eynsham Drive
• Federation Road
• Felixstowe Road
• Finchale Road
• Florence Road
• Friars Walk
• Fuchsia Street
• Gatling Road
• Gayton Road
• Glendown Road
• Glenview

Check an address in SE2

Check an address in SE2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SE2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SE2

What does an SE2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SE2 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 463 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 SE2

• DA181.5 km
• SE281.6 km
• DA172.3 km
• DA162.9 km
• SE183.1 km
• DA73.4 km
• DA64.2 km
• DA84.4 km
• IG115.2 km
• DA155.5 km
• SE75.7 km
• RM95.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids