# SE6 Postcode district covering Catford, Southend and Hither Green, in Lewisham. SE6 is a postcode district covering Catford, Southend and Hither Green, in Lewisham. Median sale price £470,500 in 2025. Recorded crime 135.1 per 1,000 people. Postcode district. Code SE6. In: [Postcodes](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode) › [SE](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se) Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an SE6 postcode. [How census figures are added up](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/population) ## Key figures - **Median sale price: £470,500** (2025). The median price paid for a home in SE6 was £470,500 in 2025. 352nd most expensive of 2,235. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se6#f-house-sales-median-price - **Population: 57,080** (2021). SE6 had 57,080 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 115th most populated of 2,756. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se6#f-population - **People in radon Affected Area squares: 0%** (2022). About 0% of people in SE6 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se6#f-radon-affected-share - **Gigabit broadband coverage: 90.0%** (January 2026). In SE6, 90.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se6#f-gigabit-coverage ## On the map - [Radon Affected Area by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=SE6) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 0% of people in SE6 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. - [Sales per year by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=SE6) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 520 homes were sold in SE6 in 2025. - [Crime and ASB by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=SE6) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for SE6. - [Population by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=SE6) (Census 2021, England and Wales): SE6 had 57,080 usual residents at the census. ## How SE6 compares Each postcode district against every other postcode district the measure covers. | Measure | SE6 | Rank | Compared with | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Median sale price | £470,500 | 12th cheapest | 28 postcode districts, SE · 2025 | | Population | 57,080 | 5th most populated | 29 postcode districts, SE · 2021 | | People in radon Affected Area squares | 0% | joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 29 postcode districts, SE · 2022 | | Gigabit broadband coverage | 90.0% | 13th lowest | 29 postcode districts, SE · Jan 2026 | ## Is SE6 safe? What police records show In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in SE6 at a rate of 135.1 per 1,000 people. That compares with 133.0 per 1,000 people across the SE postcode area. In August 2026 alone, 642 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in SE6. In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,543), anti-social behaviour (1,594) and other crime (1,209). A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in SE6 was 131.3 per 1,000 people. Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates. Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest. ## Deprivation in SE6, neighbourhood by neighbourhood - Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so SE6 has no single figure. Of its 33 neighbourhoods with a rank: - Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods - Decile 2: 9 neighbourhoods - Decile 3: 7 neighbourhoods - Decile 4: 10 neighbourhoods - Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods - Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England. ## Neighbourhoods in SE6 | Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Lewisham 018A](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003319) | 1,794 | 163.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 84.0% | | [Lewisham 018B](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003320) | 1,586 | 187.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 87.4% | | [Lewisham 018C](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003323) | 1,510 | 88.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% | | [Lewisham 018D](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003325) | 1,816 | 100.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.3% | | [Lewisham 020B](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003318) | 2,075 | 622.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.0% | | [Lewisham 020C](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003321) | 1,748 | 99.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.0% | | [Lewisham 020D](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003322) | 1,631 | 94.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.4% | | [Lewisham 020E](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003324) | 1,688 | 301.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.5% | | [Lewisham 020F](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01034390) | 1,503 | 98.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% | | [Lewisham 020G](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01034391) | 1,625 | 86.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.8% | | [Lewisham 022A](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003217) | 1,930 | 53.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.3% | | [Lewisham 022B](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003218) | 1,551 | 63.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% | | [Lewisham 022C](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003220) | 1,668 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.8% | | [Lewisham 022D](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003222) | 1,573 | 62.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.1% | | [Lewisham 022E](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003224) | 1,732 | 97.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.1% | | [Lewisham 025A](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003216) | 1,672 | 104.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.7% | | [Lewisham 025B](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003219) | 1,723 | 88.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% | | [Lewisham 025C](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003221) | 2,161 | 127.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.2% | | [Lewisham 025D](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003223) | 1,653 | 129.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.8% | | [Lewisham 026D](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003354) | 2,057 | 70.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 91.3% | | [Lewisham 029A](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003193) | 1,799 | 233.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 82.4% | | [Lewisham 029B](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003194) | 1,767 | 135.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 80.0% | | [Lewisham 029C](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003195) | 1,486 | 43.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.7% | | [Lewisham 029D](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003196) | 1,763 | 278.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.3% | | [Lewisham 029E](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003197) | 1,658 | 150.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.0% | | [Lewisham 030A](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003347) | 1,750 | 135.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.4% | | [Lewisham 030B](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003348) | 1,788 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 84.9% | | [Lewisham 030C](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003350) | 1,321 | 134.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.9% | | [Lewisham 030D](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003352) | 2,288 | 91.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 66.2% | | [Lewisham 034A](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003189) | 1,767 | 100.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.6% | | [Lewisham 034C](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003191) | 1,662 | 77.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 78.1% | | [Lewisham 034D](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003192) | 1,789 | 158.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 41.4% | | [Lewisham 038C](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/neighbourhood/e01003241) | 1,591 | 115.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 52.9% | ## Your MP - [Lewisham East](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/lewisham-east): Janet Daby (Labour), MP since July 2024. 92% of the people here. - [Lewisham West and East Dulwich](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/lewisham-west-and-east-dulwich): Ellie Reeves (Labour), MP since July 2024. 7.6% of the people here. As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API. ## Middle areas in SE6 [Beckenham Hill](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/beckenham-hill), [Bellingham & Perry Hill](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/bellingham-and-perry-hill), [Catford Bridge](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/catford-bridge), [Catford East & Mountsfield Park](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/catford-east-and-mountsfield-park), [Corbett Estate](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/corbett-estate), [Culverley Green](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/culverley-green), [Forster Park & Southend](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham/forster-park-and-southend) ## Postcode sectors in SE6 [SE6 1 (231 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se6-1), [SE6 2 (183 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se6-2), [SE6 3 (187 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se6-3), [SE6 4 (222 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se6-4), [SE6 9 (40 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se6-9) ## Council [Lewisham](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham) ## Towns in SE6 [Lewisham](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham) ## Postcode districts next to SE6 [BR1](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/br1), [BR3](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/br3), [SE4](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se4), [SE12](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se12), [SE13](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se13), [SE23](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se23), [SE26](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se26) ## Nearest rail stations [Bellingham (700 m from the middle)](https://openindex.co.uk/map/rail-stations?around=-0.0193,51.4329), [Catford Bridge (850 m from the middle)](https://openindex.co.uk/map/rail-stations?around=-0.0248,51.4447), [Catford (900 m from the middle)](https://openindex.co.uk/map/rail-stations?around=-0.0263,51.4444), [Beckenham Hill (1.6 km from the middle)](https://openindex.co.uk/map/rail-stations?around=-0.0159,51.4246) ## More in the SE postcode area [All SE postcode districts](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se), [Every UK postcode area](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode) ## SE6 in brief SE6 is a postcode district covering Catford, Southend and Hither Green, in Lewisham. About 57,567 people lived in SE6 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £470,500 in 2025 across 520 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 135.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk). The median price paid for a home in SE6 was £470,500 in 2025. SE6 had 57,080 usual residents at the census. About 0% of people in SE6 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. In SE6, 90.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026. ## About - Type: Postcode district - Code: SE6 - Postcode area: [SE](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se) - Constituency: [Lewisham East †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/lewisham-east) - Council: [Lewisham †](https://openindex.co.uk/lewisham) - Area: 7.19 km² - People, mid-2024: 57,567* - Neighbourhoods: 33 - Output areas: 169 * People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact. † Best fit: the constituency, council, region and nation this postcode district mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs. ## Next door [BR1](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/br1), [SE23](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se23), [SE13](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se13), [SE26](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se26), [BR3](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/br3), [SE12](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se12) ## Latest updates for SE6 - August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026. - September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026. - Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026. The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/SE6 ## How to cite Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se6, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se6#f-house-sales-median-price. Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it. Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/se6