Schools
230 open schools are in scope, including 129 primary and 33 secondary schools. Big Creative Academy is the nearest published school at 286 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E17 6BP
Higham Hill · Waltham Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Higham Hill
- Local authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Walthamstow
- Postcode district
- E17
- Postcode sector
- E17 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E17 6BP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 2011
- Terminated
- 1 February 2014
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E17
- Postcode sector
- E17 6
- Latitude
- 51.591002
- Longitude
- -0.037946
- British National Grid easting
- 536,013
- British National Grid northing
- 189,840
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Waltham Forest · E09000031
- Electoral ward
- Higham Hill · E05013892
- Parish or community
- E43000221
- Westminster constituency
- Walthamstow · E14001563
- Output area
- E00185826
- Lower layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 014D · E01004404
- Middle layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 014 · E02000908
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
- 230
- Primary
- 129
- Secondary
- 33
- 286 m
Big Creative Academy
Free schools 16 to 19
- 321 m
Big Creative Independent School
Other independent school
- 334 m
Hillyfield Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,102
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,903
- Anti social behaviour 955
- Other theft 668
- Theft from the person 607
- Vehicle crime 551
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- E17 6 residents
- 19,712
Age bands in E17 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 43.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.2%
3,602 residents
2,113 residents
8,494 residents
4,040 residents
1,420 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
94
within 5 km straight-line
SINNOTT MEDICAL CENTRE
8 ST ANDREW'S ROAD, WALTHAMWSTOW, LONDON, E17 6BD
ODS code Y01839
260 m
HIGHAM HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
258-260 HIGHAM HILL ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5RQ
ODS code F86679
485 m
CLAREMONT MEDICAL CENTRE
27 CLAREMONT ROAD, LONDON, E17 5RJ
ODS code F86708
501 m
DR SHANTIR PRACTICE
354-358 FOREST ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5JL
ODS code F86626
830 m
THE PENRHYN SURGERY
2A PENRHYN AVENUE, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5DB
ODS code F86005
1.2 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL PRACTICE LIMITED
THE FIRS MEDICAL CENTRE, 26 STEPHENSON ROAD, LONDON, E17 7JT
ODS code F86058
1.2 km
THE FIRS
26 STEPHENSON ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 7JT
ODS code F86001
1.2 km
QUEENS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
48 QUEENS ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 8PX
ODS code F86030
1.7 km
WELBOURNE GP SURGERY, WELBOURNE H C
UNIT 1, WALTER TULL HOUSE, MONUMENT WAY, LONDON, N17 9QX
ODS code F85628
1.9 km
WELBOURNE MED PRAC, WELBOURNE H C
UNIT 1, WALTER TULL HOUSE, MONUMENT WAY, LONDON, N17 9QX
ODS code Y05330
1.9 km
TYNEMOUTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
TYNEMOUTH ROAD, LONDON, N15 4RH
ODS code F85013
2.2 km
ADDISON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86607
2.2 km
THE BAILEY PRACTICE
COMLEY BANK SITE, 46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86689
2.2 km
CHARLTON HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
581 HIGH ROAD, LONDON, N17 6SB
ODS code F85017
2.2 km
BRUCE GROVE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CTR
463 HIGH ROAD, TOTTENHAM, LONDON, N17 6QB
ODS code F85028
2.2 km
GROVE SURGERY
103-105 GROVE ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9BU
ODS code F86062
2.3 km
THE FOREST SURGERY
2 MACDONALD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 4BA
ODS code F86026
2.3 km
DR DHITAL PRACTICE
6 LINFORD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 3LA
ODS code F86086
2.4 km
WALTHAM FOREST COMM & FAM HTH SERV LTD
6 LINFORD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 3LA
ODS code F86644
2.4 km
THE MANOR PRACTICE
454 LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 7DY
ODS code F86011
2.5 km
Showing 20 of 94 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Priestley Way
BCT · Higham Hill
- 0.1 miles
Priestley Way
BCT · Higham Hill
- 0.1 miles
Blenheim Road Walthamstow
BCT · Blackhorse Road
- 0.2 miles
Shakespeare Road / Walthamstow
BCT · Higham Hill
- 0.2 miles
Shakespeare Road / Walthamstow
BCT · Higham Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Waltham Forest 014D, 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
9,392 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
7,102 published events cover 12 months, averaging 591.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,903 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.