Schools
374 open schools are in scope, including 190 primary and 49 secondary schools. Swanlea School is the nearest published school at 235 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E1W 9LU
Whitechapel · Tower Hamlets · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Whitechapel
- Local authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney
- Postcode district
- E1W
- Postcode sector
- E1W 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E1W 9LU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2015
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E1W
- Postcode sector
- E1W 9
- Latitude
- 51.519019
- Longitude
- -0.058106
- British National Grid easting
- 534,829
- British National Grid northing
- 181,798
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Tower Hamlets · E09000030
- Electoral ward
- Whitechapel · E05009336
- Parish or community
- E43000220
- Westminster constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney · E14001086
- Output area
- E00021761
- Lower layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 017A · E01004322
- Middle layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 017 · E02000880
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 E1W
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 374
- Primary
- 190
- Secondary
- 49
- 235 m
Swanlea School
Community school
- 336 m
London Islamic School
Other independent school
- 458 m
Stewart Headlam Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 23,087
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6,016
- Anti social behaviour 2,819
- Other theft 2,382
- Shoplifting 2,159
- Theft from the person 1,930
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
104
within 5 km
ALBION HEALTH CENTRE
333 WHITECHAPEL ROAD, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON, E1 1BU
ODS code F84012
116 m
CITY SQUARE MEDICAL GROUP
14 DEANCROSS STREET, LONDON, E1 2QA
ODS code F84114
620 m
THE BLITHEHALE MED.CTR.
10-22 DUNBRIDGE STREET, LONDON, E2 6JA
ODS code F84718
721 m
THE JUBILEE STREET PRACTICE LTD
368-376 COMMERCIAL ROAD, LONDON, E1 0LS
ODS code F84031
801 m
THE SPITALFIELDS PRACTICE
20 OLD MONTAGUE STREET, LONDON, E1 5PB
ODS code F84081
818 m
HEALTH E1
9-11 BRICK LANE, LONDON, E1 6PU
ODS code F84733
933 m
GOODMAN'S FIELD HEALTH CENTRE
11 STABLE WALK, LONDON, E1 8ZF
ODS code F84039
949 m
BETHNAL GREEN HEALTH CTR.
60 FLORIDA STREET, LONDON, E2 6LL
ODS code F84083
976 m
XX PLACE HEALTH CENTRE
BANCROFT ROAD, LONDON, E1 4DG
ODS code F84122
1.3 km
THE MISSION PRACTICE
MISSION MEDICAL PRACTICE, 208 CAMBRIDGE HEATH ROAD, BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON, E2 9LS
ODS code F84016
1.4 km
HARFORD HEALTH CENTRE
115 HARFORD STREET, LONDON, E1 4FG
ODS code F84087
1.4 km
THE WAPPING GROUP PRACTICE
THE WAPPING HEALTH CENTRE, 22 WAPPING LANE, LONDON, E1W 2RL
ODS code F84079
1.4 km
ST. KATHERINE'S DOCK PRACTICE
FLAT 12, NIGHTINGALE HOUSE, 50 THOMAS MORE STREET, LONDON, E1W 1UA
ODS code F84731
1.5 km
SUTTONS WHARF HEALTH CENTRE
26 PALMERS ROAD, LONDON, E2 0FA
ODS code F84123
1.6 km
STROUTS PLACE MEDICAL CENTRE
3 STROUTS PLACE, PELTER STREET, LONDON, E2 7QU
ODS code F84051
1.6 km
THE GROVE ROAD SURGERY
IVANHOE HOUSE, 130 GROVE ROAD, LONDON, E3 5TW
ODS code F84055
1.8 km
LONDON FIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
38-44 BROADWAY MARKET, LONDON, E8 4QJ
ODS code F84021
2.0 km
ALBION STREET GROUP PRACTICE
ALBION STREET HEALTH CENTRE, 87 ALBION STREET, LONDON, SE16 7JX
ODS code G85138
2.1 km
THE LAWSON PRACTICE
ST LEONARDS, 85 NUTTALL ST, LONDON, N1 5HZ
ODS code F84096
2.2 km
THE GREENHOUSE WALK-IN
19 TUDOR ROAD, LONDON, E9 7SN
ODS code F84632
2.2 km
Showing 20 of 104 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Whitechapel Station / Royal London Hospital
BCT · Whitechapel
- 0.0 miles
Cavell Street
BCT · Whitechapel
- 0.1 miles
Cambridge Heath Road
BCT · Whitechapel
- 0.1 miles
Whitechapel Station
RSE · Whitechapel
- 0.1 miles
Whitechapel Rail Station
RLY · Whitechapel
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tower Hamlets 017A, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
3,313 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
Recorded crime
23,087 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,923.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6,016 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.