Schools
384 open schools are in scope, including 193 primary and 50 secondary schools. Wapping High School is the nearest published school at 81 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E1 2JN
Whitechapel · Tower Hamlets · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Whitechapel
- Local authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney
- Postcode district
- E1
- Postcode sector
- E1 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E1 2JN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E1
- Postcode sector
- E1 2
- Latitude
- 51.515473
- Longitude
- -0.060117
- British National Grid easting
- 534,700
- British National Grid northing
- 181,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Tower Hamlets · E09000030
- Electoral ward
- Whitechapel · E05009336
- Parish or community
- E43000220
- Westminster constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney · E14001086
- Output area
- E00184124
- Lower layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 021C · E01004321
- Middle layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 021 · E02000884
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore E1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 384
- Primary
- 193
- Secondary
- 50
- 81 m
Wapping High School
Free schools
- 106 m
Daffodil Preparatory School
Other independent school
- 146 m
Mulberry School for Girls
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 22,205
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5,529
- Other theft 2,668
- Anti social behaviour 2,505
- Shoplifting 2,245
- Theft from the person 1,967
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- E1 2 residents
- 8,555
Age bands in E1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 18.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 40.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 16.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 5.6%
1,509 residents
1,491 residents
3,244 residents
1,350 residents
452 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
113
within 5 km straight-line
CITY SQUARE MEDICAL GROUP
14 DEANCROSS STREET, LONDON, E1 2QA
ODS code F84114
391 m
ALBION HEALTH CENTRE
333 WHITECHAPEL ROAD, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON, E1 1BU
ODS code F84012
534 m
GOODMAN'S FIELD HEALTH CENTRE
11 STABLE WALK, LONDON, E1 8ZF
ODS code F84039
622 m
THE SPITALFIELDS PRACTICE
20 OLD MONTAGUE STREET, LONDON, E1 5PB
ODS code F84081
689 m
THE JUBILEE STREET PRACTICE LTD
368-376 COMMERCIAL ROAD, LONDON, E1 0LS
ODS code F84031
698 m
HEALTH E1
9-11 BRICK LANE, LONDON, E1 6PU
ODS code F84733
851 m
THE BLITHEHALE MED.CTR.
10-22 DUNBRIDGE STREET, LONDON, E2 6JA
ODS code F84718
988 m
THE WAPPING GROUP PRACTICE
THE WAPPING HEALTH CENTRE, 22 WAPPING LANE, LONDON, E1W 2RL
ODS code F84079
1.0 km
ST. KATHERINE'S DOCK PRACTICE
FLAT 12, NIGHTINGALE HOUSE, 50 THOMAS MORE STREET, LONDON, E1W 1UA
ODS code F84731
1.1 km
BETHNAL GREEN HEALTH CTR.
60 FLORIDA STREET, LONDON, E2 6LL
ODS code F84083
1.3 km
HARFORD HEALTH CENTRE
115 HARFORD STREET, LONDON, E1 4FG
ODS code F84087
1.6 km
XX PLACE HEALTH CENTRE
BANCROFT ROAD, LONDON, E1 4DG
ODS code F84122
1.6 km
ALBION STREET GROUP PRACTICE
ALBION STREET HEALTH CENTRE, 87 ALBION STREET, LONDON, SE16 7JX
ODS code G85138
1.7 km
THE MISSION PRACTICE
MISSION MEDICAL PRACTICE, 208 CAMBRIDGE HEATH ROAD, BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON, E2 9LS
ODS code F84016
1.8 km
THE NEW MILL STREET SURGERY
1 WOLSELEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 2BP
ODS code G85705
1.8 km
STROUTS PLACE MEDICAL CENTRE
3 STROUTS PLACE, PELTER STREET, LONDON, E2 7QU
ODS code F84051
1.8 km
SUTTONS WHARF HEALTH CENTRE
26 PALMERS ROAD, LONDON, E2 0FA
ODS code F84123
2.0 km
BERMONDSEY SPA MEDICAL CENTRE
EYOT HOUSE, 50 OLD JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BL
ODS code G85623
2.2 km
QHS GP CARE HOME SERVICE
50 OLD JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BL
ODS code Y06113
2.2 km
THE GROVE ROAD SURGERY
IVANHOE HOUSE, 130 GROVE ROAD, LONDON, E3 5TW
ODS code F84055
2.2 km
Showing 20 of 113 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
New Road (E1)
BCT · Shadwell
- 0.1 miles
Commercial Road
BCT · Shadwell
- 0.1 miles
New Road (E1)
BCT · Shadwell
- 0.1 miles
Royal London Hospital
BCT · Whitechapel
- 0.1 miles
Commercial Road
BCT · Shadwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tower Hamlets 021C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,378 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
22,205 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,850.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5,529 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.