London Bridge & Bermondsey West

Southwark · London · population 11,088 · 6 LSOAs

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

34Area Score / 100 ?
  • #4,536 of 6,856 in England
  • #588 of 1,002 in London
  • #18 of 34 in Southwark
  • More deprived (bottom 40%)
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People living here Census 2021

Residents10,785
Median age (est.)32
Density15,374per km²
No qualifications14%
Degree or above52%
No car or van70%

Age

0–14 15%15–24 18%25–44 38%45–64 22%65+ 8%

Tenure

Own outright: 7%Mortgage/shared: 14%Social rent: 50%Private rent: 29%
Own outright 7%Mortgage/shared 14%Social rent 50%Private rent 29%

Households

One person: 36%Couple, no children: 15%Couple with children: 12%Lone parent: 15%Other: 22%
One person 36%Couple, no children 15%Couple with children 12%Lone parent 15%Other 22%

Work (top occupations)

Professional 31% · Associate professional 16% · Managers & directors 15%

All occupation groups
Professional31%
Associate professional16%
Managers & directors15%
Elementary10%
Caring & leisure8%
Administrative8%
Sales & customer service6%
Skilled trades4%
Process & plant4%

Ethnic group

White: 47%Asian: 15%Black: 24%Mixed: 7%Other: 7%
White 47%Asian 15%Black 24%Mixed 7%Other 7%

Religion & identity

Christian 41% · No religion 32% · Muslim 15%

Born outside the UK: 45%

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

London Bridge & Bermondsey West is in the more-deprived bottom 40% of England, ranked #4,536 of 6,856 neighbourhoods nationally, and #18 of 34 in Southwark. It is highly uneven across the seven themes — strong on Education (70) but weak on Living environment (14). Typical homes here sold for about £490,000 over the past year, down 12% across five years (from 79 sales), 9% below the wider Southwark median of £540,000. Typical household take-home income is around £47,937 a year, in the top third of England. Recorded crime ran at 192 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 29 · #4,851
Employment 39 · #4,186
Education 70 · #2,020
Health 28 · #4,899
Crime 32 · #4,666
Housing & access 31 · #4,714
Living environment 14 · #5,907

House prices ?

£490,000median (12m) · +0.1% yr · n=79
TypeMedian (12m)Sales1yr5yr
All homes£490,00079+0.1%-11.7%
DetachedToo few sales to report (n=0)
Semi-detachedToo few sales to report (n=1)
Terraced£932,5006-27.8%
Flat£470,00072-2.1%-12.1%
This area£490,000
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)£47,937±£6,904 · #1,457 of 6,856
After housing costs (equivalised)£41,100
Price-to-income ?10.2×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 ?

17Affordability-adjusted Score / 100
Best-value areas in England →

Recorded crime ?

192 crimes per 1,000 residents · 12 months · 2,133 offences
Southwark125
London102
England83

Rank #6,155 of 6,427 areas with published data (1 = lowest recorded rate).

Category (12 months)Recorded
Violence & sexual offences454
Theft1,048
Burglary120
Vehicle crime85
Criminal damage & arson69
Public order & weapons140
Drugs81
Robbery122
Other14

Anti-social behaviour, recorded separately: 462 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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