Schools
249 open schools are in scope, including 138 primary and 33 secondary schools. Kelmscott School is the nearest published school at 63 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E17 8BL
Markhouse · Waltham Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Markhouse
- Local authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Walthamstow
- Postcode district
- E17
- Postcode sector
- E17 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E17 8BL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E17
- Postcode sector
- E17 8
- Latitude
- 51.576099
- Longitude
- -0.028671
- British National Grid easting
- 536,700
- British National Grid northing
- 188,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Waltham Forest · E09000031
- Electoral ward
- Markhouse · E05013898
- Parish or community
- E43000221
- Westminster constituency
- Walthamstow · E14001563
- Output area
- E00022373
- Lower layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 018E · E01004449
- Middle layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 018 · E02000912
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
- 249
- Primary
- 138
- Secondary
- 33
- 63 m
Kelmscott School
Community school
- 224 m
St Saviour's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 259 m
Low Hall Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8,911
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,385
- Anti social behaviour 1,219
- Other theft 889
- Theft from the person 721
- Vehicle crime 693
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- E17 8 residents
- 16,329
Age bands in E17 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 38.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.2%
3,219 residents
1,721 residents
6,052 residents
3,495 residents
1,292 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
106
within 5 km straight-line
ST JAMES MEDICAL PRACTICE LIMITED
THE FIRS MEDICAL CENTRE, 26 STEPHENSON ROAD, LONDON, E17 7JT
ODS code F86058
646 m
THE FIRS
26 STEPHENSON ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 7JT
ODS code F86001
646 m
QUEENS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
48 QUEENS ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 8PX
ODS code F86030
704 m
THE MANOR PRACTICE
454 LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 7DY
ODS code F86011
704 m
SEYMOUR MEDICAL CENTRE
266 LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 7LD
ODS code F86006
772 m
GROVE SURGERY
103-105 GROVE ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9BU
ODS code F86062
1.3 km
SMA MEDICAL PRACTICE
693 HIGH ROAD LEYTON, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 6RA
ODS code F86038
1.5 km
DR SHANTIR PRACTICE
354-358 FOREST ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5JL
ODS code F86626
1.5 km
ADDISON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86607
1.6 km
THE BAILEY PRACTICE
COMLEY BANK SITE, 46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86689
1.6 km
THE LYNDHURST SURGERY
53 LYNDHURST DRIVE, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 6JB
ODS code F86088
1.8 km
CRAWLEY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
479 HIGH ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 5EL
ODS code F86044
1.8 km
THE ECCLESBOURNE PRACTICE
ECCLESBOURNE, 1 WARWICK TERRACE, LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E17 9DP
ODS code F86018
2.0 km
THE CLAPTON SURGERY
THEYDON ROAD HEALTH CTR, 14 URBAN HIVE, THEYDON RD, LONDON, E5 9BQ
ODS code F84668
2.0 km
THE RIVERSIDE PRACTICE
14 URBAN HIVE, THEYDON ROAD, LONDON, E5 9BQ
ODS code F84619
2.0 km
SINNOTT MEDICAL CENTRE
8 ST ANDREW'S ROAD, WALTHAMWSTOW, LONDON, E17 6BD
ODS code Y01839
2.0 km
CLAREMONT MEDICAL CENTRE
27 CLAREMONT ROAD, LONDON, E17 5RJ
ODS code F86708
2.1 km
LEYTON HEALTHCARE 4TH FLOOR
4TH FLOOR, OLIVER ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE, 75 OLIVER ROAD, LONDON, E10 5LG
ODS code F86074
2.1 km
HIGHAM HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
258-260 HIGHAM HILL ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5RQ
ODS code F86679
2.1 km
DR DHITAL PRACTICE
6 LINFORD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 3LA
ODS code F86086
2.2 km
Showing 20 of 106 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Queen's Road
BCT · Walthamstow
- 0.1 miles
Queen's Road
BCT · Walthamstow
- 0.2 miles
St Saviour's Church
BCT · Walthamstow
- 0.2 miles
Markhouse Avenue
BCT · Walthamstow
- 0.2 miles
St Saviour's Church
BCT · Walthamstow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Waltham Forest 018E, 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
5,057 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
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
8,911 published events cover 12 months, averaging 742.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,385 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.