SE5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

883 of the district's 1,564 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 51.47391, -0.09147, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SE5

Companies House lists 3,213 companies with a registered office in SE5; 220 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 SE5

• London
• Greater London
• Southwark
• Camberwell
• Lambeth
• Bermondsey

Roads filed under SE5

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.

• Acland Crescent
• Ada Road
• Addington Square
• Albany Mews
• Albany Road
• Albrighton Road
• Allendale Close
• Anderton Close
• Arnould Avenue
• Artichoke Place
• Ashworth Close
• Avondale Rise
• Badsworth Road
• Baldwin Crescent
• Bantry Street
• Basingdon Way
• Bath Passage
• Bavent Road
• Beaulieu Close
• Belham Walk
• Bengeworth Road
• Benhill Road
• Bessemer Road
• Bethwin Road
• Bicknell Road
• Blanchedowne
• Blucher Road
• Bolton Crescent
• Bonsor Street
• Bowyer Place
• Bowyer Street
• Branch Street
• Brief Street
• Brisbane Street
• Bromar Road
• Broome Way
• Brunswick Park
• Brunswick Villas
• Bullace Row
• Bushey Hill Road
• Calais Street
• Caldecot Road
• Caldew Street
• Camberwell Church Street
• Camberwell Glebe
• Camberwell Green
• Camberwell Grove
• Camberwell New Road
• Camberwell Passage
• Camberwell Road
• Camberwell Station Road
• Cambria Road
• Canal Street
• Canning Cross
• Carew Street
• Caspian Street
• Champion Grove
• Champion Hill
• Champion Park
• Chiswell Street

Check an address in SE5

Check an address in SE5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SE5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SE5

What does an SE5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SE5 district of the SE (South East London) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Camberwell. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 883 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 SE5

• SE171.6 km
• SW91.6 km
• SE151.8 km
• SE242.1 km
• SE1P2.2 km
• SE112.2 km
• SE222.5 km
• SE12.8 km
• SW82.8 km
• SW1P3.4 km
• SW23.4 km
• SE143.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids