Schools
378 open schools are in scope, including 192 primary and 52 secondary schools. Jamiatul Ummah School is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E1 2ND
Shadwell · Tower Hamlets · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Ward
- Shadwell
- 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 2ND
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E1
- Postcode sector
- E1 2
- Latitude
- 51.512678
- Longitude
- -0.058549
- British National Grid easting
- 534,817
- British National Grid northing
- 181,092
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Tower Hamlets · E09000030
- Electoral ward
- Shadwell · E05009332
- Parish or community
- E43000220
- Westminster constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney · E14001086
- Output area
- E00021637
- Lower layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 022C · E01004304
- Middle layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 022 · E02000885
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
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 78, Bigland Street, London, E1 2ND | 22 November 2019 | £375,000 |
| 78, Bigland Street, London, E1 2ND | 12 May 2009 | £240,000 |
| 88, Bigland Street, London, E1 2ND | 7 October 2005 | £100,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 378
- Primary
- 192
- Secondary
- 52
- 0 m
Jamiatul Ummah School
Other independent school
- 100 m
Bigland Green Primary School
Community school
- 186 m
Mulberry School for Girls
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 19,458
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,799
- Anti social behaviour 2,349
- Other theft 2,250
- Shoplifting 1,969
- Theft from the person 1,643
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 84
- 40 female, 44 male
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 4.9
- E1 2 residents
- 8,555
Age bands in E1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- 1,509 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 18.5%
- 1,491 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 40.3%
- 3,244 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 16.8%
- 1,350 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 5.6%
- 452 residents
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider E1 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 82.1%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 82.1%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 82.1%
- Gigabit-capable
- 82.1%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 82.1%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
108
within 5 km straight-line
CITY SQUARE MEDICAL GROUP
14 DEANCROSS STREET, LONDON, E1 2QA
ODS code F84114
261 m
THE JUBILEE STREET PRACTICE LTD
368-376 COMMERCIAL ROAD, LONDON, E1 0LS
ODS code F84031
566 m
GOODMAN'S FIELD HEALTH CENTRE
11 STABLE WALK, LONDON, E1 8ZF
ODS code F84039
696 m
THE WAPPING GROUP PRACTICE
THE WAPPING HEALTH CENTRE, 22 WAPPING LANE, LONDON, E1W 2RL
ODS code F84079
728 m
ALBION HEALTH CENTRE
333 WHITECHAPEL ROAD, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON, E1 1BU
ODS code F84012
819 m
ST. KATHERINE'S DOCK PRACTICE
FLAT 12, NIGHTINGALE HOUSE, 50 THOMAS MORE STREET, LONDON, E1W 1UA
ODS code F84731
925 m
THE SPITALFIELDS PRACTICE
20 OLD MONTAGUE STREET, LONDON, E1 5PB
ODS code F84081
926 m
HEALTH E1
9-11 BRICK LANE, LONDON, E1 6PU
ODS code F84733
1.1 km
THE BLITHEHALE MED.CTR.
10-22 DUNBRIDGE STREET, LONDON, E2 6JA
ODS code F84718
1.3 km
ALBION STREET GROUP PRACTICE
ALBION STREET HEALTH CENTRE, 87 ALBION STREET, LONDON, SE16 7JX
ODS code G85138
1.4 km
HARFORD HEALTH CENTRE
115 HARFORD STREET, LONDON, E1 4FG
ODS code F84087
1.6 km
THE NEW MILL STREET SURGERY
1 WOLSELEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 2BP
ODS code G85705
1.6 km
BETHNAL GREEN HEALTH CTR.
60 FLORIDA STREET, LONDON, E2 6LL
ODS code F84083
1.6 km
XX PLACE HEALTH CENTRE
BANCROFT ROAD, LONDON, E1 4DG
ODS code F84122
1.8 km
BERMONDSEY SPA MEDICAL CENTRE
EYOT HOUSE, 50 OLD JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BL
ODS code G85623
1.9 km
QHS GP CARE HOME SERVICE
50 OLD JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BL
ODS code Y06113
1.9 km
THE LIMEHOUSE PRACTICE
11 GILL STREET, POPLAR, LONDON, E14 8HQ
ODS code F84054
2.1 km
THE MISSION PRACTICE
MISSION MEDICAL PRACTICE, 208 CAMBRIDGE HEATH ROAD, BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON, E2 9LS
ODS code F84016
2.1 km
STROUTS PLACE MEDICAL CENTRE
3 STROUTS PLACE, PELTER STREET, LONDON, E2 7QU
ODS code F84051
2.2 km
SUTTONS WHARF HEALTH CENTRE
26 PALMERS ROAD, LONDON, E2 0FA
ODS code F84123
2.2 km
Showing 20 of 108 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 172 m
Shadwell DLR Station
MET · Shadwell
- 182 m
St George's Town Hall / Shadwell Station
BCT · Shadwell
- 185 m
St George's Town Hall / Shadwell Station
BCT · Shadwell
- 186 m
Shadwell DLR
BCT · Shadwell
- 190 m
Shadwell Rail Station
RSE · Shadwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tower Hamlets 022C, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
3,364 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 7
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
19,458 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,622 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,799 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.