Crap Towns / Southwark / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Southwark?
In January 2026, 2.8% of premises in Southwark couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 5.6 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 19 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 90.3% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 19 | less than 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 4,385 | 2.8% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 141,995 | 90.3% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| City of London | 4.6 km | 11.5 |
| Tower Hamlets | 5.4 km | 3.0 |
| Southwark | – | 2.8 |
| Westminster | 7.4 km | 2.8 |
| Islington | 8.6 km | 1.7 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 8.7 km | 1.1 |
| Lewisham | 4.7 km | 1.0 |
| Hackney | 8.7 km | 0.9 |
| Wandsworth | 8.2 km | 0.8 |
| Lambeth | 3.8 km | 0.8 |
| Greenwich | 9.0 km | 0.5 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |