Property market
The five-year median is £661,250 from 4 recorded sales in E17 8BZ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Waltham Forest is £522,743 in June 2026, up 2.5% year on year.
E17 8BZ
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E17 8BZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E17
- Postcode sector
- E17 8
- Latitude
- 51.576453
- Longitude
- -0.031528
- British National Grid easting
- 536,501
- British National Grid northing
- 188,234
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
- E00022362
- Lower layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 018D · E01004448
- 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
Property
48 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 16, Downsfield Road, London, E17 8BZ | 9 February 2024 | £592,500 |
| 56, Downsfield Road, London, E17 8BZ | 19 December 2023 | £735,000 |
| 22, Downsfield Road, London, E17 8BZ | 16 October 2023 | £730,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 251
- Primary
- 141
- Secondary
- 33
- 196 m
Low Hall Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 237 m
South Grove Primary School
Community school
- 241 m
Kelmscott School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8,398
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,225
- Anti social behaviour 1,153
- Other theft 856
- Theft from the person 691
- Vehicle crime 641
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 83
- Postcode households
- 31
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- E17 8 residents
- 16,329
49 female, 34 male
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
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider E17 8 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
106
within 5 km straight-line
ST JAMES MEDICAL PRACTICE LIMITED
THE FIRS MEDICAL CENTRE, 26 STEPHENSON ROAD, LONDON, E17 7JT
ODS code F86058
494 m
THE FIRS
26 STEPHENSON ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 7JT
ODS code F86001
494 m
SEYMOUR MEDICAL CENTRE
266 LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 7LD
ODS code F86006
850 m
QUEENS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
48 QUEENS ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 8PX
ODS code F86030
854 m
THE MANOR PRACTICE
454 LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 7DY
ODS code F86011
873 m
GROVE SURGERY
103-105 GROVE ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9BU
ODS code F86062
1.5 km
DR SHANTIR PRACTICE
354-358 FOREST ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5JL
ODS code F86626
1.5 km
SMA MEDICAL PRACTICE
693 HIGH ROAD LEYTON, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 6RA
ODS code F86038
1.7 km
ADDISON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86607
1.7 km
THE BAILEY PRACTICE
COMLEY BANK SITE, 46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86689
1.7 km
THE CLAPTON SURGERY
THEYDON ROAD HEALTH CTR, 14 URBAN HIVE, THEYDON RD, LONDON, E5 9BQ
ODS code F84668
1.8 km
THE RIVERSIDE PRACTICE
14 URBAN HIVE, THEYDON ROAD, LONDON, E5 9BQ
ODS code F84619
1.8 km
SINNOTT MEDICAL CENTRE
8 ST ANDREW'S ROAD, WALTHAMWSTOW, LONDON, E17 6BD
ODS code Y01839
1.9 km
CRAWLEY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
479 HIGH ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 5EL
ODS code F86044
1.9 km
THE LYNDHURST SURGERY
53 LYNDHURST DRIVE, LEYTON, LONDON, E10 6JB
ODS code F86088
2.0 km
CLAREMONT MEDICAL CENTRE
27 CLAREMONT ROAD, LONDON, E17 5RJ
ODS code F86708
2.0 km
HIGHAM HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
258-260 HIGHAM HILL ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5RQ
ODS code F86679
2.1 km
THE ECCLESBOURNE PRACTICE
ECCLESBOURNE, 1 WARWICK TERRACE, LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E17 9DP
ODS code F86018
2.1 km
LEYTON HEALTHCARE 4TH FLOOR
4TH FLOOR, OLIVER ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE, 75 OLIVER ROAD, LONDON, E10 5LG
ODS code F86074
2.2 km
HEALY MEDICAL CENTRE
200 UPPER CLAPTON ROAD, LONDON, E5 9DH
ODS code F84720
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
Barn Croft Primary School
BCT · Walthamstow
- 0.2 miles
Markhouse Avenue
BCT · Walthamstow
- 0.2 miles
Barn Croft Primary School
BCT · Walthamstow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Waltham Forest 018D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,494 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
Schools
251 open schools are in scope, including 141 primary and 33 secondary schools. Low Hall Nursery School is the nearest published school at 196 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
8,398 published events cover 12 months, averaging 699.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,225 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.