Schools
234 open schools are in scope, including 135 primary and 32 secondary schools. Big Creative Academy is the nearest published school at 279 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E17 6DR
St James · Waltham Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- St James
- Local authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Walthamstow
- Postcode district
- E17
- Postcode sector
- E17 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E17 6DR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 April 2015
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E17
- Postcode sector
- E17 6
- Latitude
- 51.589076
- Longitude
- -0.042172
- British National Grid easting
- 535,726
- British National Grid northing
- 189,618
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Waltham Forest · E09000031
- Electoral ward
- St James · E05013899
- Parish or community
- E43000221
- Westminster constituency
- Walthamstow · E14001563
- Output area
- E00185819
- Lower layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 014G · E01034486
- 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
- 234
- Primary
- 135
- Secondary
- 32
- 279 m
Big Creative Academy
Free schools 16 to 19
- 393 m
Willowfield School
Community school
- 506 m
Big Creative Independent School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,123
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,927
- Anti social behaviour 984
- Other theft 677
- Vehicle crime 567
- Theft from the person 560
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
102
within 5 km straight-line
SINNOTT MEDICAL CENTRE
8 ST ANDREW'S ROAD, WALTHAMWSTOW, LONDON, E17 6BD
ODS code Y01839
592 m
HIGHAM HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
258-260 HIGHAM HILL ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5RQ
ODS code F86679
828 m
CLAREMONT MEDICAL CENTRE
27 CLAREMONT ROAD, LONDON, E17 5RJ
ODS code F86708
854 m
ST JAMES MEDICAL PRACTICE LIMITED
THE FIRS MEDICAL CENTRE, 26 STEPHENSON ROAD, LONDON, E17 7JT
ODS code F86058
1.1 km
THE FIRS
26 STEPHENSON ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 7JT
ODS code F86001
1.1 km
DR SHANTIR PRACTICE
354-358 FOREST ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5JL
ODS code F86626
1.1 km
WELBOURNE GP SURGERY, WELBOURNE H C
UNIT 1, WALTER TULL HOUSE, MONUMENT WAY, LONDON, N17 9QX
ODS code F85628
1.6 km
WELBOURNE MED PRAC, WELBOURNE H C
UNIT 1, WALTER TULL HOUSE, MONUMENT WAY, LONDON, N17 9QX
ODS code Y05330
1.6 km
THE PENRHYN SURGERY
2A PENRHYN AVENUE, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5DB
ODS code F86005
1.6 km
QUEENS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
48 QUEENS ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 8PX
ODS code F86030
1.8 km
TYNEMOUTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
TYNEMOUTH ROAD, LONDON, N15 4RH
ODS code F85013
1.8 km
BRUCE GROVE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CTR
463 HIGH ROAD, TOTTENHAM, LONDON, N17 6QB
ODS code F85028
2.0 km
CHARLTON HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
581 HIGH ROAD, LONDON, N17 6SB
ODS code F85017
2.0 km
ADDISON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86607
2.4 km
THE BAILEY PRACTICE
COMLEY BANK SITE, 46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86689
2.4 km
THE MANOR PRACTICE
454 LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 7DY
ODS code F86011
2.4 km
FERNLEA SURGERY
114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH TOTTENHAM, LONDON, N15 6JR
ODS code F85071
2.4 km
GROVE SURGERY
103-105 GROVE ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9BU
ODS code F86062
2.4 km
SEYMOUR MEDICAL CENTRE
266 LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 7LD
ODS code F86006
2.4 km
TOTTENHAM HEALTH CENTRE
759 HIGH ROAD, TOTTENHAM, LONDON, N17 8AH
ODS code F85615
2.5 km
Showing 20 of 102 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Forest Road
BCT · Blackhorse Road
- 0.1 miles
Blenheim Road Walthamstow
BCT · Blackhorse Road
- 0.1 miles
Forest Road
BCT · Blackhorse Road
- 0.1 miles
Blackhorse Road Station
BCT · Blackhorse Road
- 0.1 miles
Blackhorse Road Station
BCT · Blackhorse Road
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Waltham Forest 014G, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,460 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
7,123 published events cover 12 months, averaging 593.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,927 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.