Schools
157 open schools are in scope, including 90 primary and 25 secondary schools. Whitefield School is the nearest published school at 495 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E17 4AL
Upper Walthamstow · Waltham Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 4AL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 2020
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E17
- Postcode sector
- E17 4
- Latitude
- 51.591889
- Longitude
- 0.003744
- British National Grid easting
- 538,898
- British National Grid northing
- 190,017
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
- E00022457
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 157
- Primary
- 90
- Secondary
- 25
- 495 m
Whitefield School
Academy special converter
- 526 m
The Woodside Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 575 m
Frederick Bremer School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,800
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,342
- Anti social behaviour 677
- Vehicle crime 552
- Other theft 390
- Drugs 325
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- E17 4 residents
- 18,042
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
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
66
within 5 km straight-line
DR DHITAL PRACTICE
6 LINFORD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 3LA
ODS code F86086
656 m
WALTHAM FOREST COMM & FAM HTH SERV LTD
6 LINFORD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 3LA
ODS code F86644
656 m
THE FOREST SURGERY
2 MACDONALD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 4BA
ODS code F86026
684 m
THE ECCLESBOURNE PRACTICE
ECCLESBOURNE, 1 WARWICK TERRACE, LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E17 9DP
ODS code F86018
1.3 km
ADDISON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86607
1.3 km
THE BAILEY PRACTICE
COMLEY BANK SITE, 46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86689
1.3 km
QUEEN MARY PRACTICE
SOUTH WOODFORD HEALTH CENTRE, 114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86658
1.4 km
THE ELMHURST PRACTICE
114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86064
1.4 km
GLEBELANDS PRACTICE
2 GLEBELANDS AVENUE, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2AB
ODS code F86020
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
GROVE SURGERY
103-105 GROVE ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9BU
ODS code F86062
1.7 km
HANDSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
HANDSWORTH AVENUE, HIGHAMS PARK, LONDON, E4 9PD
ODS code F86004
1.8 km
THE PENRHYN SURGERY
2A PENRHYN AVENUE, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5DB
ODS code F86005
2.0 km
WANSTEAD PLACE SURGERY
45 WANSTEAD PLACE, WANSTEAD, LONDON, E11 2SW
ODS code F86032
2.0 km
DR SHANTIR PRACTICE
354-358 FOREST ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5JL
ODS code F86626
2.1 km
QUEENS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
48 QUEENS ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 8PX
ODS code F86030
2.1 km
THE EVERGREEN SURGERY
26 HIGH STREET, LONDON, E11 2AQ
ODS code F86023
2.2 km
RYDAL
375 HIGH ROAD, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 9QJ
ODS code F86012
2.2 km
THE LYNDHURST SURGERY
53 LYNDHURST DRIVE, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 6JB
ODS code F86088
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 66 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 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
Fyfield Road (E17)
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,800 published events cover 12 months, averaging 400 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,342 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.