Schools
378 open schools are in scope, including 197 primary and 49 secondary schools. Brick Lane School is the nearest published school at 288 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E1 6SY
Spitalfields & Banglatown · Tower Hamlets · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Local authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney
- Postcode district
- E1
- Postcode sector
- E1 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E1 6SY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2004
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E1
- Postcode sector
- E1 6
- Latitude
- 51.522295
- Longitude
- -0.075164
- British National Grid easting
- 533,636
- British National Grid northing
- 182,131
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Tower Hamlets · E09000030
- Electoral ward
- Spitalfields & Banglatown · E05009333
- Parish or community
- E43000220
- Westminster constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney · E14001086
- Output area
- E00167178
- Lower layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 009F · E01035669
- Middle layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 009 · E02000872
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
24 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 10, Flat 10, Quaker Street, London, E1 6SY | 15 January 2021 | £785,000 |
| 10, Flat 11, Quaker Street, London, E1 6SY | 5 June 2019 | £775,000 |
| 10, Flat 6, Quaker Street, London, E1 6SY | 27 April 2018 | £611,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 378
- Primary
- 197
- Secondary
- 49
- 288 m
Brick Lane School
Other independent special school
- 432 m
OMG Education
Other independent school
- 449 m
Christ Church CofE School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 28,495
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6,072
- Other theft 4,026
- Theft from the person 3,499
- Shoplifting 2,868
- Anti social behaviour 2,644
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- E1 6 residents
- 4,199
6 female, 11 male
Age bands in E1 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 19.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 50.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 14.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 4.7%
453 residents
822 residents
2,145 residents
612 residents
198 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider E1 6 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
118
within 5 km
HEALTH E1
9-11 BRICK LANE, LONDON, E1 6PU
ODS code F84733
512 m
THE SPITALFIELDS PRACTICE
20 OLD MONTAGUE STREET, LONDON, E1 5PB
ODS code F84081
673 m
THE BLITHEHALE MED.CTR.
10-22 DUNBRIDGE STREET, LONDON, E2 6JA
ODS code F84718
713 m
STROUTS PLACE MEDICAL CENTRE
3 STROUTS PLACE, PELTER STREET, LONDON, E2 7QU
ODS code F84051
803 m
BETHNAL GREEN HEALTH CTR.
60 FLORIDA STREET, LONDON, E2 6LL
ODS code F84083
917 m
GOODMAN'S FIELD HEALTH CENTRE
11 STABLE WALK, LONDON, E1 8ZF
ODS code F84039
1.1 km
ALBION HEALTH CENTRE
333 WHITECHAPEL ROAD, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON, E1 1BU
ODS code F84012
1.2 km
CITY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
CITY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, UNIT 1-3 GROUND FLOOR, CITY HOUSE, 190-196 CITY ROAD, LONDON, EC1V 2QH
ODS code F83064
1.3 km
THE LAWSON PRACTICE
ST LEONARDS, 85 NUTTALL ST, LONDON, N1 5HZ
ODS code F84096
1.3 km
SHOREDITCH PARK SURGERY
6-10 RUSHTON STREET, LONDON, N1 5DR
ODS code F84635
1.5 km
THE HOXTON SURGERY
12 RUSHTON STREET, HOXTON, LONDON, N1 5DR
ODS code F84692
1.5 km
THE NEAMAN PRACTICE
15 HALF MOON COURT, LONDON, EC1A 7HF
ODS code F84640
1.6 km
THE MISSION PRACTICE
MISSION MEDICAL PRACTICE, 208 CAMBRIDGE HEATH ROAD, BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON, E2 9LS
ODS code F84016
1.6 km
CITY SQUARE MEDICAL GROUP
14 DEANCROSS STREET, LONDON, E1 2QA
ODS code F84114
1.7 km
ST. KATHERINE'S DOCK PRACTICE
FLAT 12, NIGHTINGALE HOUSE, 50 THOMAS MORE STREET, LONDON, E1W 1UA
ODS code F84731
1.8 km
DE BEAUVOIR SURGERY
30 HERTFORD ROAD, LONDON, N1 5QT
ODS code F84072
1.8 km
LONDON FIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
38-44 BROADWAY MARKET, LONDON, E8 4QJ
ODS code F84021
1.8 km
THE JUBILEE STREET PRACTICE LTD
368-376 COMMERCIAL ROAD, LONDON, E1 0LS
ODS code F84031
2.0 km
NEW NORTH HEALTH CENTRE
287-293 NEW NORTH ROAD, LONDON, N1 7AA
ODS code F83034
2.0 km
THE WAPPING GROUP PRACTICE
THE WAPPING HEALTH CENTRE, 22 WAPPING LANE, LONDON, E1W 2RL
ODS code F84079
2.1 km
Showing 20 of 118 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Elder Street
BCT · Spitalfields
- 0.1 miles
Shoreditch High Street Rail Station
RLY · Shoreditch
- 0.1 miles
Elder Street
BCT · Spitalfields
- 0.1 miles
Shoreditch High Street Station
RSE · Shoreditch
- 0.1 miles
Shoreditch High Street Station
BCT · Shoreditch
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tower Hamlets 009F, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,139 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
28,495 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2,374.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6,072 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.