Schools
238 open schools are in scope, including 138 primary and 30 secondary schools. Royal Docks Academy is the nearest published school at 99 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E16 3HQ
Custom House · Newham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Custom House
- Local authority
- Newham
- Constituency
- West Ham and Beckton
- Postcode district
- E16
- Postcode sector
- E16 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E16 3HQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1985
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E16
- Postcode sector
- E16 3
- Latitude
- 51.511141
- Longitude
- 0.036258
- British National Grid easting
- 541,400
- British National Grid northing
- 181,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Newham · E09000025
- Electoral ward
- Custom House · E05013908
- Parish or community
- E43000215
- Westminster constituency
- West Ham and Beckton · E14001576
- Output area
- E00017768
- Lower layer super output area
- Newham 036D · E01003515
- Middle layer super output area
- Newham 036 · E02000749
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 E16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 238
- Primary
- 138
- Secondary
- 30
- 99 m
Royal Docks Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 365 m
Scott Wilkie Primary School
Academy converter
- 380 m
St Joachim's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,940
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,309
- Vehicle crime 963
- Anti social behaviour 932
- Other theft 840
- Theft from the person 479
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- E16 3 residents
- 14,659
Age bands in E16 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 14.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.7%
2,945 residents
2,090 residents
4,982 residents
3,437 residents
1,120 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
83
within 5 km straight-line
CUSTOM HOUSE SURGERY
16 FREEMASONS ROAD, CANNING TOWN, LONDON, E16 3NA
ODS code F84047
789 m
GLEN ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
1-9 GLEN ROAD, PLAISTOW, LONDON, E13 8RU
ODS code F84092
1.3 km
COMMUNITY DERMATOLOGY CLINIC
63 APPLEBY ROAD, CANNING TOWN, LONDON, E16 1LQ
ODS code F84750
1.4 km
TOLLGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
220 TOLLGATE ROAD, LONDON, E6 5JS
ODS code F84093
1.5 km
THE RUIZ MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 ST. LUKE'S SQUARE, CANNING TOWN, LONDON, E16 1HT
ODS code F84666
1.6 km
THE PRACTICE ALBERT ROAD
KENNARD STREET HEALTH CENTRE, 76 ALBERT ROAD, LONDON, E16 2DY
ODS code Y02928
1.6 km
GREENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
497 BARKING ROAD, PLAISTOW, LONDON, E13 8PS
ODS code F84053
1.7 km
ROYAL DOCKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
ROYAL DOCKS MEDICAL CENTRE, 21 EAST HAM MANOR WAY, BECKTON, LONDON, E6 5NA
ODS code F84717
1.9 km
BALAAM STREET PRACTICE
113 BALAAM STREET, PLAISTOW, LONDON, E13 8AF
ODS code F84681
1.9 km
ESSEX LODGE
GREENGATE STREET, PLAISTOW, LONDON, E13 0AS
ODS code F84052
2.0 km
STAR LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
121 STAR LANE, CANNING TOWN, LONDON, E16 4QH
ODS code F84017
2.0 km
BOLEYN MEDICAL CENTRE
152 BARKING ROAD, EAST HAM, LONDON, E6 3BD
ODS code F84050
2.3 km
THE AZAD PRACTICE
152 BARKING ROAD, EAST HAM, LONDON, E6 3BD
ODS code F84735
2.3 km
ASPIRE MEDICAL CENTRE
269 BARKING ROAD, EAST HAM, LONDON, E6 1FL
ODS code F84010
2.6 km
CENTRAL PARK SURGERY
269 BARKING ROAD, EAST HAM, LONDON, E6 1FL
ODS code F84669
2.6 km
THE PROJECT SURGERY
10 LETTSOM WALK, PLAISTOW, LONDON, E13 0LN
ODS code F84124
2.6 km
GREENWICH PENINSULA
GREENWICH PENINSULA PRACTICE, SCHOOLBANK ROAD, LONDON, SE10 0QN
ODS code Y03755
2.6 km
MARKET STREET HEALTH GROUP
52 MARKET STREET, EAST HAM, LONDON, E6 2RA
ODS code F84004
2.7 km
VALENTINE HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
25-27 JOHN WILSON STREET, WOOLWICH, LONDON, SE18 6PZ
ODS code G83067
2.7 km
TRIVENI PMS
ESCREET SURGERY, ESCREET GROVE, WOOLWICH, LONDON, SE18 5TE
ODS code G83026
2.8 km
Showing 20 of 83 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Victoria Dock Road
BCT · Custom House
- 0.1 miles
Prince Regent Bus Station
BCT · Prince Regent
- 0.1 miles
Victoria Dock Road
BCT · Custom House
- 0.1 miles
Prince Regent Bus Station
BCT · Prince Regent
- 0.1 miles
Prince Regent Bus Station
BCT · Prince Regent
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Newham 036D, 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
4,990 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
7,940 published events cover 12 months, averaging 661.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,309 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.