Schools
156 open schools are in scope, including 90 primary and 25 secondary schools. Whitefield School is the nearest published school at 441 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E17 4AJ
Upper Walthamstow · Waltham Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Ward
- Upper Walthamstow
- Local authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Walthamstow
- Postcode district
- E17
- Postcode sector
- E17 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E17 4AJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E17
- Postcode sector
- E17 4
- Latitude
- 51.592842
- Longitude
- 0.003757
- British National Grid easting
- 538,896
- British National Grid northing
- 190,123
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Waltham Forest · E09000031
- Electoral ward
- Upper Walthamstow · E05013900
- Parish or community
- E43000221
- Westminster constituency
- Walthamstow · E14001563
- Output area
- E00022458
- Lower layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 013D · E01004469
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 26, Hylands Road, London, E17 4AJ | 24 June 2015 | £176,000 |
| 12, Hylands Road, London, E17 4AJ | 12 August 2002 | £72,000 |
| 12, Hylands Road, London, E17 4AJ | 5 October 1998 | £20,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 156
- Primary
- 90
- Secondary
- 25
- 441 m
Whitefield School
Academy special converter
- 530 m
Frederick Bremer School
Community school
- 553 m
The Woodside Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,756
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,334
- Anti social behaviour 675
- Vehicle crime 546
- Other theft 391
- Burglary 320
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 84
- Postcode households
- 45
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- E17 4 residents
- 18,042
45 female, 39 male
Age bands in E17 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 36.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.4%
3,474 residents
1,858 residents
6,255 residents
4,214 residents
1,454 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider E17 4 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
63
within 5 km
THE FOREST SURGERY
2 MACDONALD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 4BA
ODS code F86026
643 m
DR DHITAL PRACTICE
6 LINFORD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 3LA
ODS code F86086
734 m
WALTHAM FOREST COMM & FAM HTH SERV LTD
6 LINFORD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 3LA
ODS code F86644
734 m
QUEEN MARY PRACTICE
SOUTH WOODFORD HEALTH CENTRE, 114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86658
1.3 km
THE ELMHURST PRACTICE
114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86064
1.3 km
ADDISON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86607
1.4 km
THE BAILEY PRACTICE
COMLEY BANK SITE, 46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86689
1.4 km
GLEBELANDS PRACTICE
2 GLEBELANDS AVENUE, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2AB
ODS code F86020
1.4 km
THE ECCLESBOURNE PRACTICE
ECCLESBOURNE, 1 WARWICK TERRACE, LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E17 9DP
ODS code F86018
1.4 km
SOUTHDENE SURGERY
THE SHRUBBERIES, GEORGE LANE, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 1BD
ODS code F86066
1.5 km
THE SHRUBBERIES MEDICAL CENTRE
12 THE SHRUBBERIES, GEORGE LANE, LONDON, E18 1BD
ODS code F86641
1.5 km
HANDSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
HANDSWORTH AVENUE, HIGHAMS PARK, LONDON, E4 9PD
ODS code F86004
1.7 km
GROVE SURGERY
103-105 GROVE ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9BU
ODS code F86062
1.8 km
THE PENRHYN SURGERY
2A PENRHYN AVENUE, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5DB
ODS code F86005
2.0 km
RYDAL
375 HIGH ROAD, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 9QJ
ODS code F86012
2.1 km
DR SHANTIR PRACTICE
354-358 FOREST ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5JL
ODS code F86626
2.1 km
WANSTEAD PLACE SURGERY
45 WANSTEAD PLACE, WANSTEAD, LONDON, E11 2SW
ODS code F86032
2.1 km
QUEENS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
48 QUEENS ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 8PX
ODS code F86030
2.2 km
THE EVERGREEN SURGERY
26 HIGH STREET, LONDON, E11 2AQ
ODS code F86023
2.2 km
THE LYNDHURST SURGERY
53 LYNDHURST DRIVE, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 6JB
ODS code F86088
2.4 km
Showing 20 of 63 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Hillcrest Road (E17)
BCT · Upper Walthamstow
- 0.1 miles
Beacontree Avenue
BCT · Upper Walthamstow
- 0.1 miles
Hale End Road
BCT · Upper Walthamstow
- 0.2 miles
Hale End Road
BCT · Upper Walthamstow
- 0.2 miles
Forest Road Upper Walthamstow
BCT · Upper Walthamstow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Waltham Forest 013D, 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
5,318 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
4,756 published events cover 12 months, averaging 396.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,334 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.