Schools
233 open schools are in scope, including 135 primary and 31 secondary schools. Big Creative Academy is the nearest published school at 159 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E17 6SY
St James · Waltham Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- 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 6SY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E17
- Postcode sector
- E17 6
- Latitude
- 51.589117
- Longitude
- -0.040294
- British National Grid easting
- 535,856
- British National Grid northing
- 189,626
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
- E00185802
- 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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 37, Collendale Road, London, E17 6SY | 9 August 2019 | £312,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 233
- Primary
- 135
- Secondary
- 31
- 159 m
Big Creative Academy
Free schools 16 to 19
- 362 m
Willowfield School
Community school
- 446 m
Stoneydown Park School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,393
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,966
- Anti social behaviour 977
- Other theft 695
- Theft from the person 651
- Vehicle crime 561
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 69
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 3.6
- E17 6 residents
- 19,712
36 female, 33 male
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
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider E17 6 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
99
within 5 km
SINNOTT MEDICAL CENTRE
8 ST ANDREW'S ROAD, WALTHAMWSTOW, LONDON, E17 6BD
ODS code Y01839
517 m
HIGHAM HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
258-260 HIGHAM HILL ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5RQ
ODS code F86679
749 m
CLAREMONT MEDICAL CENTRE
27 CLAREMONT ROAD, LONDON, E17 5RJ
ODS code F86708
766 m
DR SHANTIR PRACTICE
354-358 FOREST ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5JL
ODS code F86626
982 m
ST JAMES MEDICAL PRACTICE LIMITED
THE FIRS MEDICAL CENTRE, 26 STEPHENSON ROAD, LONDON, E17 7JT
ODS code F86058
1.0 km
THE FIRS
26 STEPHENSON ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 7JT
ODS code F86001
1.0 km
THE PENRHYN SURGERY
2A PENRHYN AVENUE, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5DB
ODS code F86005
1.5 km
WELBOURNE GP SURGERY, WELBOURNE H C
UNIT 1, WALTER TULL HOUSE, MONUMENT WAY, LONDON, N17 9QX
ODS code F85628
1.7 km
WELBOURNE MED PRAC, WELBOURNE H C
UNIT 1, WALTER TULL HOUSE, MONUMENT WAY, LONDON, N17 9QX
ODS code Y05330
1.7 km
QUEENS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
48 QUEENS ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 8PX
ODS code F86030
1.7 km
TYNEMOUTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
TYNEMOUTH ROAD, LONDON, N15 4RH
ODS code F85013
2.0 km
BRUCE GROVE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CTR
463 HIGH ROAD, TOTTENHAM, LONDON, N17 6QB
ODS code F85028
2.1 km
CHARLTON HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
581 HIGH ROAD, LONDON, N17 6SB
ODS code F85017
2.1 km
ADDISON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86607
2.3 km
THE BAILEY PRACTICE
COMLEY BANK SITE, 46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86689
2.3 km
GROVE SURGERY
103-105 GROVE ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9BU
ODS code F86062
2.3 km
THE MANOR PRACTICE
454 LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 7DY
ODS code F86011
2.4 km
SEYMOUR MEDICAL CENTRE
266 LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 7LD
ODS code F86006
2.4 km
THE FOREST SURGERY
2 MACDONALD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 4BA
ODS code F86026
2.5 km
FERNLEA SURGERY
114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH TOTTENHAM, LONDON, N15 6JR
ODS code F85071
2.5 km
Showing 20 of 99 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Blenheim Road Walthamstow
BCT · Blackhorse Road
- 0.1 miles
Forest Road
BCT · Blackhorse Road
- 0.1 miles
Forest Road
BCT · Blackhorse Road
- 0.1 miles
Priestley Way
BCT · Higham Hill
- 0.1 miles
Blackhorse Road Station
RSE · 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.
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
- 1
- 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
7,393 published events cover 12 months, averaging 616.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,966 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.