Butler's Wharf and Queen's Walk

Southwark · London · population 5,198 · 5 LSOAs

Approximate neighbourhood (MSOA) boundary. © OpenStreetMap contributors; boundary © ONS / Crown copyright.

92Area Score / 100 ?
  • #567 of 6,856 in England
  • #61 of 1,002 in London
  • #1 of 34 in Southwark
  • Least deprived 10% in England
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People living here Census 2021

Residents5,314
Median age (est.)33
Density14,234per km²
No qualifications3%
Degree or above82%
No car or van67%

Age

0–14 5%15–24 10%25–44 58%45–64 21%65+ 6%

Tenure

Own outright: 15%Mortgage/shared: 17%Social rent: 7%Private rent: 61%
Own outright 15%Mortgage/shared 17%Social rent 7%Private rent 61%

Households

One person: 43%Couple, no children: 31%Couple with children: 6%Lone parent: 3%Other: 16%
One person 43%Couple, no children 31%Couple with children 6%Lone parent 3%Other 16%

Work (top occupations)

Professional 44% · Managers & directors 24% · Associate professional 19%

All occupation groups
Professional44%
Managers & directors24%
Associate professional19%
Administrative5%
Skilled trades2%
Elementary2%
Caring & leisure1%
Sales & customer service1%
Process & plant1%

Ethnic group

White: 73%Asian: 14%Black: 4%Mixed: 6%Other: 3%
White 73%Asian 14%Black 4%Mixed 6%Other 3%

Religion & identity

No religion 49% · Christian 33% · Hindu 4%

Born outside the UK: 50%

Census 2021 (ONS), Crown copyright, OGL v3.0. Shares are of each question's own respondents (e.g. education is % of residents aged 16+). Figures date from March 2021 and change slowly between censuses.

In summary

Butler's Wharf and Queen's Walk is one of the least-deprived 10% of neighbourhoods in England, ranked #567 of 6,856 neighbourhoods nationally, and #1 of 34 in Southwark. It is highly uneven across the seven themes — strong on Employment (100) but weak on Living environment (23). Typical homes here sold for about £700,000 over the past year, down 15% across five years (from 99 sales), 30% above the wider Southwark median of £540,000. It pairs low deprivation with well-above-average prices, so on our affordability-adjusted measure it lands at #6,117 of 6,851 — you pay for the postcode here. Typical household take-home income is around £81,570 a year, among England's highest. Recorded crime ran at 239 incidents per 1,000 residents over the past year, well above the England rate of 83.

Themed scores ?

Each 0–100, higher = less deprived on that theme. National rank shown.

Income 99 · #80
Employment 100 · #12
Education 98 · #169
Health 71 · #1,993
Crime 87 · #876
Housing & access 47 · #3,645
Living environment 23 · #5,249

House prices ?

£700,000median (12m) · -2.8% yr · n=99
TypeMedian (12m)Sales1yr5yr
All homes£700,00099-2.8%-15.3%
DetachedToo few sales to report (n=0)
Semi-detachedToo few sales to report (n=0)
TerracedToo few sales to report (n=1)
Flat£700,00098-2.1%-13.3%
This area£700,000
Southwark£540,000
London£525,512
England£300,000
Annual median price, all homes. Small samples can be volatile.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Household income

Net household income (a year)£81,570±£14,734 · #4 of 6,856
After housing costs (equivalised)£63,550
Price-to-income ?8.6×typical home ÷ net income — more stretched than the England figure of 7.5×

Model-based ONS estimates (FYE 2023) with 95% confidence intervals — a guide to the typical household, not a measurement. How income estimates work →

Affordability-adjusted Score ?

11Affordability-adjusted Score / 100
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Recorded crime ?

239 crimes per 1,000 residents · 12 months · 1,242 offences
Southwark125
London102
England83

Rank #6,270 of 6,427 areas with published data (1 = lowest recorded rate).

Category (12 months)Recorded
Violence & sexual offences175
Theft797
Burglary73
Vehicle crime17
Criminal damage & arson40
Public order & weapons49
Drugs33
Robbery47
Other11

Anti-social behaviour, recorded separately: 137 incidents.

Recorded incidents, not convictions. Crimes are counted where they happen while residents are counted where they live, so busy town-centre, retail and nightlife areas show high per-resident rates because visitors bring incidents with them. Street-level crime data © Crown copyright, data.police.uk, OGL v3.0. More on crime figures →

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