Southwark

19°CCloudy

• Today: 22° / 17° · 88% rain
• Tomorrow: 25° / 18° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:30Sunset 19:21

12h 51m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

14US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · London

2429 reported · July 2026▲ 4% YoY

• Theft from the person483
• Violence & sexual offences447
• Other theft370
• Anti-social behaviour358

302 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: London Bridge and West Bermondsey · Metropolitan

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

875 reported road collisions (2024)

215 killed or seriously injured · 964 casualties · 28.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 440 rated 4–5 ★ (387 top)
• 5 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: London Bridge (0.6 km)
• 81 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

£582,473 average▲ 2.2% YoY

Across Southwark · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£2,431 average monthly rent▲ 3.8% YoY

• 1 bed £1,843
• 2 bed £2,306
• 3 bed £2,683

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

10.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.8 times median annual pay (11.4× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 136.8p · AppleGreen (2.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (2.3 km)

78 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 9 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Tyers Estate Block C (0.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres12
• Gyms43
• Sports pitches94
• Playgrounds87

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

307,635 residents in Southwark · 10,659/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 75%
• 65+: 8%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 43 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

3% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£1,967 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (25% of 149,990)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

121 schools · 47,129 pupils

68 primary · 19 secondary · 34 other

Ofsted: 48 of 49 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (98%)

102inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Southwark

223 CQC-registered services

• Care homes13
• GP practices59
• Dentists66
• Homecare agencies61
• Hospitals & hospices5

CQC ratings: 85% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Southwark

• Not in the Green Belt
• 628 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

361 applications decided

94.2% granted · 340 granted, 21 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Neil Coyle

Labour

Bermondsey and Old Southwark

Source: UK Parliament

Green / Liberal Democrat coalition

• Lab 29
• LD 12
• Grn 22

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools45
• GPs & clinics37
• Pharmacies15
• Supermarkets19
• Parks & greens255
• Restaurants & cafés810

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

18,250 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

1,273 jobs advertised · £45,379 avg

e.g. Restaurant Manager, Scooter Delivery Driver, Sociology Teacher – Catholic Girls School – West London

Source: Adzuna

£940 median full-time weekly pay

5.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£36,440 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

60% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 171,229 certificates

7.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

27% low-carbon electricity

Gas 57% · Imports 17% · Nuclear 13% · Biomass 7%

240 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for London · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.5 yrs women · 79.9 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 62.7 women · 62.6 men

52% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.4
• Happiness yesterday7.1
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.8

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Bermondsey and Old Southwark:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership457 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership227 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s211 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office155 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into the impact of Section 28 on LGBTQ people128 local signatures · 25,891 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  List of local nature reserves in Greater London · 0.0 km

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  White Cube · 0.1 km

  White Cube is a contemporary art gallery founded by Jay Jopling in London in 1993. The gallery has two branches in London: White Cube Mason's Yard in central London and White Cube Bermondsey in South East London, as w…

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  Cornerstone (sculpture) · 0.1 km

  Cornerstone is a sculpture in Tanner Park, Southwark, London.

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  Long Lane (Southwark) · 0.2 km

  Long Lane is a main east–west road in Southwark, south London, England.

• Bermondsey Project Space · 0.2 km

  Bermondsey Project Space is a not-for-profit art gallery in Bermondsey, South East London. It was founded in 2015 as Art Bermondsey Project Space and sponsored by Olympus in association with State/F22 magazine. Locat…

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  Fashion and Textile Museum · 0.2 km

  The Fashion and Textile Museum is an English museum.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)