Property market
The five-year median is £7,500 from 1 recorded sale in E17 3LX. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Waltham Forest is £522,743 in June 2026, up 2.5% year on year.
E17 3LX
Wood Street · Waltham Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Ward
- Wood Street
- Local authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Walthamstow
- Postcode district
- E17
- Postcode sector
- E17 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E17 3LX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E17
- Postcode sector
- E17 3
- Latitude
- 51.587109
- Longitude
- -0.003308
- British National Grid easting
- 538,424
- British National Grid northing
- 189,472
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Waltham Forest · E09000031
- Electoral ward
- Wood Street · E05013903
- Parish or community
- E43000221
- Westminster constituency
- Walthamstow · E14001563
- Output area
- E00022467
- Lower layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 013C · E01004464
- Middle layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 013 · E02000907
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 E17
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 141, Wood Street, London, E17 3LX | 5 November 2021 | £7,500 |
| 165, Wood Street, London, E17 3LX | 26 October 2016 | £824,000 |
| 155, Wood Street, London, E17 3LX | 8 September 2010 | £185,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 181
- Primary
- 104
- Secondary
- 27
- 394 m
St Mary's CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 396 m
Holy Family Catholic School
Voluntary aided school
- 436 m
Our Lady and St George's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,269
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,029
- Anti social behaviour 957
- Vehicle crime 711
- Other theft 685
- Theft from the person 498
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 54
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- E17 3 residents
- 13,205
26 female, 28 male
Age bands in E17 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 36.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.7%
2,944 residents
1,558 residents
4,936 residents
2,955 residents
1,037 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider E17 3 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+
- 97.8%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 91.1%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 91.1%
- Gigabit-capable
- 91.1%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 97.8%
- 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
72
within 5 km straight-line
DR DHITAL PRACTICE
6 LINFORD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 3LA
ODS code F86086
78 m
WALTHAM FOREST COMM & FAM HTH SERV LTD
6 LINFORD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 3LA
ODS code F86644
78 m
ADDISON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86607
590 m
THE BAILEY PRACTICE
COMLEY BANK SITE, 46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86689
590 m
THE ECCLESBOURNE PRACTICE
ECCLESBOURNE, 1 WARWICK TERRACE, LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E17 9DP
ODS code F86018
733 m
THE FOREST SURGERY
2 MACDONALD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 4BA
ODS code F86026
856 m
GROVE SURGERY
103-105 GROVE ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9BU
ODS code F86062
1.0 km
QUEENS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
48 QUEENS ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 8PX
ODS code F86030
1.4 km
DR SHANTIR PRACTICE
354-358 FOREST ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5JL
ODS code F86626
1.6 km
THE LYNDHURST SURGERY
53 LYNDHURST DRIVE, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 6JB
ODS code F86088
1.7 km
THE PENRHYN SURGERY
2A PENRHYN AVENUE, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5DB
ODS code F86005
1.8 km
SMA MEDICAL PRACTICE
693 HIGH ROAD LEYTON, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 6RA
ODS code F86038
1.9 km
THE ALLUM MEDICAL CENTRE
FAIRLOP ROAD, LEYTONSTONE, LONDON, E11 1BN
ODS code F86036
2.0 km
GLEBELANDS PRACTICE
2 GLEBELANDS AVENUE, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2AB
ODS code F86020
2.0 km
QUEEN MARY PRACTICE
SOUTH WOODFORD HEALTH CENTRE, 114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86658
2.1 km
THE ELMHURST PRACTICE
114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86064
2.1 km
WANSTEAD PLACE SURGERY
45 WANSTEAD PLACE, WANSTEAD, LONDON, E11 2SW
ODS code F86032
2.1 km
SOUTHDENE SURGERY
THE SHRUBBERIES, GEORGE LANE, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 1BD
ODS code F86066
2.1 km
THE SHRUBBERIES MEDICAL CENTRE
12 THE SHRUBBERIES, GEORGE LANE, LONDON, E18 1BD
ODS code F86641
2.1 km
DR MOHAMMED GREEN MAN MEDICAL CENTRE
1 HANBURY DRIVE, LEYTONSTONE, LONDON, E11 1GA
ODS code F86621
2.2 km
Showing 20 of 72 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Wood Street Station
BCT · Upper Walthamstow
- 0.0 miles
Wood Street Station
BCT · Upper Walthamstow
- 0.1 miles
Wood Street Rail Station
RLY · Upper Walthamstow
- 0.1 miles
Wood Street Station
RSE · Upper Walthamstow
- 0.1 miles
Wood Street Station
BCT · Upper Walthamstow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Waltham Forest 013C, 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
6,147 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
- 24
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 13
- 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
Schools
181 open schools are in scope, including 104 primary and 27 secondary schools. St Mary's CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 394 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
7,269 published events cover 12 months, averaging 605.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,029 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.