Property Diligence

Balham (SW12): an area guide before you move

Balham (SW12) has a recorded-sale median of £700,000, alongside 11 open registered schools and 11 rail, metro or tram access nodes. The sections below set out the wider local picture before you move.

What the district facts say

Budget starting point

Median £700,000 from 841 completed sales.

The median is the clearest broad starting point for this district.

Daily-life picture

11 open schools. 40 bus and 11 rail, metro or tram nodes.

These are the district-level building blocks for everyday life.

District prices

SW12 recorded 841 completed sales in the 24-month sample. The median was £700,000. The £869,402 average is higher because a small number of expensive sales can lift it.

Median recorded sale
£700,000
Average recorded sale
£869,402
Recorded sales
841 (24 months)
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. local 2025-2026 bulk snapshot. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
How this was counted

Postcode district. non-deleted recorded sales in preceding 24 months.

Crime and serious-crime share

Police.uk records 3,361 reports from 2025-07 to 2026-06. Violence and sexual offences, robbery, burglary and weapons-possession reports account for 873, or 26.0% of the total.

Reported crime, 12 months
3,361
Selected report-category share
873 (26.0%)
data.police.uk street-level crime custom download. 2025-07 to 2026-06; seven verified programme forces. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. Police.uk anonymised coordinates assigned to nearest Code-Point Open centroid; selected-category share is not an official severity rate.

Local-area deprivation context

IMD is a Government local-area scale from 1 to 10: 1 is the poorer end, while 10 is the more well-off end. SW12 has a median of 7.0. 0.3% of mapped postcode units are in the poorer 1 to 3 band and 42.6% are in the more well-off 8 to 10 band.

Median IMD decile
7.0 / 10
Postcode units in deciles 1–3
0.3%
Postcode units in deciles 8–10
42.6%
MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation postcode download. 2025. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. distribution of official IMD25 postcode assignments; England only.

Schools

The register lists 11 open establishments in SW12. It is a useful picture of the local school base, across the phases shown in the card below.

Registered school sites
11 (16 plus: 1, Nursery: 1, Primary: 7, Secondary: 2)
DfE Get Information about Schools establishment register. 2026-08-02. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. open GIAS establishments grouped by registered postcode district.

Green space and outdoor sport

OS maps 14 green-space or outdoor-sport sites covering 59.67 hectares, including 1 public parks or gardens. This gives the district a substantial mapped outdoor offer.

Mapped OS green-space sites
14
Mapped site area
59.67 ha
Public parks or gardens
1
OS Open Greenspace. April 2026 programme-city tile manifest. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. OS Open Greenspace April 2026 site polygon geometric centroid assigned to nearest Code-Point Open postcode centroid.

Flood context

The source covers 594 postcode units. 120 have high-risk surrounding addresses and 138 have medium-risk surroundings.

Postcode units in source
594
Units with high-risk surroundings
120
Units with medium-risk surroundings
138
Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data. 2026-07-10. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. sum of Environment Agency postcode source counts by outward postcode; counts concern areas around addresses, not a named property.

Air quality

The 2024 modelled annual-mean NO₂ median is 18.2 µg/m³. 100.0% of mapped units exceed the WHO 10 µg/m³ guideline and 0.0% meet or exceed 40 µg/m³.

Median annual mean NO₂
18.2 µg/m³
Postcode units above WHO 10 µg/m³
100.0%
Postcode units at or above legal 40 µg/m³
0.0%
DEFRA Pollution Climate Mapping annual-mean NO2 grid. 2024. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. DEFRA PCM 2024 1 km modelled annual-mean NO2 looked up at each Code-Point Open postcode centroid; postcode-unit weighted district summary.

Transport access nodes

NaPTAN contains 40 active bus nodes and 11 rail, metro or tram nodes across SW12. Together, they describe the district-wide public-transport network.

Active bus access nodes
40
Active rail, metro or tram nodes
11
NaPTAN. 2026-08-02. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. active NaPTAN access node assigned to nearest Code-Point Open centroid.

Broadband availability

The postcode-unit median maximum advertised download is 1,000 Mbit/s, with 100.0% full-fibre and 100.0% gigabit availability.

Median maximum advertised download
1,000 Mbit/s
Median full-fibre availability
100.0%
Median gigabit availability
100.0%
Ofcom Connected Nations. 2025. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. median across postcode units.

Road safety

DfT records 303 personal-injury collisions in 2022 to 24: 0 fatal, 43 serious and 260 slight.

Reported collisions, 2022–24 (raw count)
303
Fatal
0
Serious
43
Slight
260
DfT STATS19 Road Safety Data. 2022-2024 collision files. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. 2022–24 STATS19 collision assigned to nearest Code-Point Open centroid.

Sources and method

Related guides

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