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E1W 1AZ

St Katharine's & Wapping · Tower Hamlets · England

Updated September 2026

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Post town
London
Ward
St Katharine's & Wapping
Local authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Poplar and Limehouse
Postcode district
E1W
Postcode sector
E1W 1

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode Distance
E1W 1BF 1 m
E1W 1AH 73 m
E1W 1AJ 73 m
E1W 1AT 92 m
E1W 1AP 93 m
Complete postcode fields and official codes
Postcode
E1W 1AZ
Status
Current
Introduced
1 December 1999
Terminated
Not published
Postcode area
E
Postcode district
E1W
Postcode sector
E1W 1
Latitude
51.508094
Longitude
-0.071786
British National Grid easting
533,912
British National Grid northing
180,558

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country
England · E92000001
Region
London · E12000007
Local authority district
Tower Hamlets · E09000030
Electoral ward
St Katharine's & Wapping · E05009330
Parish or community
E43000220
Westminster constituency
Poplar and Limehouse · E14001430
Output area
E00021628
Lower layer super output area
Tower Hamlets 027B · E01004293
Middle layer super output area
Tower Hamlets 027 · E02000890

Postcode source versions

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Property

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1 recorded sale at this postcode
Address Date Price
Commodity Quay, Ground Floor Restaurant, East Smithfield, London, E1W 1AZ 26 March 2018 £240,000

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools
396
Primary
201
Secondary
56

  1. Mulberry Academy London Dock

    Free schools

    399 m

  2. St Paul's Whitechapel Church of England Primary School

    Voluntary aided school

    470 m

  3. English Martyrs Roman Catholic Primary School

    Voluntary aided school

    528 m

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events
23,865
Months covered
12
Latest month
June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

  • Violence and sexual offences 4,850
  • Other theft 4,183
  • Theft from the person 3,589
  • Anti social behaviour 2,144
  • Shoplifting 2,111

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents
Not supplied
Postcode households
Not supplied
Residents per household
Not available
E1W 1 residents
2,226

Age bands in E1W 1

Wider postcode sector
Age 0 to 14
10%

240 residents

Age 15 to 24
8.3%

200 residents

Age 25 to 44
46.9%

1,129 residents

Age 45 to 64
25%

601 residents

Age 65 and over
9.8%

236 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.

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

122

within 5 km straight-line

  • ST. KATHERINE'S DOCK PRACTICE

    FLAT 12, NIGHTINGALE HOUSE, 50 THOMAS MORE STREET, LONDON, E1W 1UA

    ODS code F84731

    274 m

  • GOODMAN'S FIELD HEALTH CENTRE

    11 STABLE WALK, LONDON, E1 8ZF

    ODS code F84039

    641 m

  • THE NEW MILL STREET SURGERY

    1 WOLSELEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 2BP

    ODS code G85705

    823 m

  • THE WAPPING GROUP PRACTICE

    THE WAPPING HEALTH CENTRE, 22 WAPPING LANE, LONDON, E1W 2RL

    ODS code F84079

    919 m

  • THE SPITALFIELDS PRACTICE

    20 OLD MONTAGUE STREET, LONDON, E1 5PB

    ODS code F84081

    1.0 km

  • HEALTH E1

    9-11 BRICK LANE, LONDON, E1 6PU

    ODS code F84733

    1.1 km

  • BERMONDSEY SPA MEDICAL CENTRE

    EYOT HOUSE, 50 OLD JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BL

    ODS code G85623

    1.3 km

  • QHS GP CARE HOME SERVICE

    50 OLD JAMAICA ROAD, LONDON, SE16 4BL

    ODS code Y06113

    1.3 km

  • CITY SQUARE MEDICAL GROUP

    14 DEANCROSS STREET, LONDON, E1 2QA

    ODS code F84114

    1.3 km

  • THE JUBILEE STREET PRACTICE LTD

    368-376 COMMERCIAL ROAD, LONDON, E1 0LS

    ODS code F84031

    1.6 km

  • ALBION HEALTH CENTRE

    333 WHITECHAPEL ROAD, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON, E1 1BU

    ODS code F84012

    1.7 km

  • ALBION STREET GROUP PRACTICE

    ALBION STREET HEALTH CENTRE, 87 ALBION STREET, LONDON, SE16 7JX

    ODS code G85138

    1.7 km

  • THE BLITHEHALE MED.CTR.

    10-22 DUNBRIDGE STREET, LONDON, E2 6JA

    ODS code F84718

    1.8 km

  • FALMOUTH ROAD GROUP PRACTICE

    78 FALMOUTH ROAD, LONDON, SE1 4JW

    ODS code G85029

    2.0 km

  • OLD KENT ROAD SURGERY

    182-184 OLD KENT ROAD, LONDON, SE1 5TY

    ODS code G85052

    2.1 km

  • BETHNAL GREEN HEALTH CTR.

    60 FLORIDA STREET, LONDON, E2 6LL

    ODS code F84083

    2.2 km

  • THE NEAMAN PRACTICE

    15 HALF MOON COURT, LONDON, EC1A 7HF

    ODS code F84640

    2.2 km

  • PARK MEDICAL CENTRE

    57 HAWKSTONE ROAD, LONDON, SE16 2PE

    ODS code G85125

    2.3 km

  • BLACKFRIARS MEDICAL PRACTICE

    BLACKFRIARS MEDICAL PRACT, 45 COLOMBO STREET, LONDON, SE1 8EE

    ODS code G85642

    2.4 km

  • STROUTS PLACE MEDICAL CENTRE

    3 STROUTS PLACE, PELTER STREET, LONDON, E2 7QU

    ODS code F84051

    2.4 km

Showing 20 of 122 matching practices.

Nearby transport

  • St Katherine Dock

    BCT · Wapping

    0.0 miles

  • St Katherine Dock

    BCT · Wapping

    0.0 miles

  • Tower Hill / Tower Gateway Station

    BCT · Tower Gateway

    0.1 miles

  • Tower Bridge Quay

    FTD · Wapping

    0.1 miles

  • Tower Bridge Quay

    FER · Wapping

    0.2 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tower Hamlets 027B, 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

9 of 10

Overall England rank

27,562 of 33,755

Income
7 of 10
Employment
9 of 10
Education and skills
10 of 10
Health and disability
9 of 10
Crime
6 of 10
Housing and services
8 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
0
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

396 open schools are in scope, including 201 primary and 56 secondary schools. Mulberry Academy London Dock is the nearest published school at 399 m.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

23,865 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,988.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,850 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.