Schools
376 open schools are in scope, including 186 primary and 48 secondary schools. Oaklands School is the nearest published school at 204 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E2 6QS
Bethnal Green West · Tower Hamlets · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Ward
- Bethnal Green West
- Local authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney
- Postcode district
- E2
- Postcode sector
- E2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E2 6QS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E2
- Postcode sector
- E2 6
- Latitude
- 51.530574
- Longitude
- -0.059676
- British National Grid easting
- 534,686
- British National Grid northing
- 183,080
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Tower Hamlets · E09000030
- Electoral ward
- Bethnal Green West · E05009331
- Parish or community
- E43000220
- Westminster constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney · E14001086
- Output area
- E00021158
- Lower layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 002C · E01004199
- Middle layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 002 · E02000865
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
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Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Antenor House, Flat 3, Old Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 6QS | 21 November 2012 | £247,000 |
| Antenor House, Flat 14, Old Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 6QS | 11 January 2008 | £275,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 376
- Primary
- 186
- Secondary
- 48
- 204 m
Oaklands School
Community school
- 306 m
Lawdale Junior School
Community school
- 358 m
Elizabeth Selby Infants' School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 21,067
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5,497
- Anti social behaviour 2,580
- Theft from the person 2,020
- Other theft 1,949
- Shoplifting 1,769
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 104
- Postcode households
- 31
- Residents per household
- 3.4
- E2 6 residents
- 9,258
53 female, 51 male
Age bands in E2 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 19.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 44.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 16%
- Age 65 and over
- 5.9%
1,370 residents
1,864 residents
4,325 residents
1,544 residents
568 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider E2 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
119
within 5 km
THE MISSION PRACTICE
MISSION MEDICAL PRACTICE, 208 CAMBRIDGE HEATH ROAD, BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON, E2 9LS
ODS code F84016
241 m
BETHNAL GREEN HEALTH CTR.
60 FLORIDA STREET, LONDON, E2 6LL
ODS code F84083
515 m
LONDON FIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
38-44 BROADWAY MARKET, LONDON, E8 4QJ
ODS code F84021
682 m
THE BLITHEHALE MED.CTR.
10-22 DUNBRIDGE STREET, LONDON, E2 6JA
ODS code F84718
847 m
THE GREENHOUSE WALK-IN
19 TUDOR ROAD, LONDON, E9 7SN
ODS code F84632
967 m
STROUTS PLACE MEDICAL CENTRE
3 STROUTS PLACE, PELTER STREET, LONDON, E2 7QU
ODS code F84051
1.0 km
WELL STREET SURGERY
28 SHORE ROAD, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 7TA
ODS code F84069
1.1 km
ALBION HEALTH CENTRE
333 WHITECHAPEL ROAD, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON, E1 1BU
ODS code F84012
1.2 km
SUTTONS WHARF HEALTH CENTRE
26 PALMERS ROAD, LONDON, E2 0FA
ODS code F84123
1.2 km
XX PLACE HEALTH CENTRE
BANCROFT ROAD, LONDON, E1 4DG
ODS code F84122
1.4 km
THE LAWSON PRACTICE
ST LEONARDS, 85 NUTTALL ST, LONDON, N1 5HZ
ODS code F84096
1.4 km
RICHMOND ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
136 RICHMOND ROAD, LONDON, E8 3HN
ODS code F84035
1.4 km
THE GROVE ROAD SURGERY
IVANHOE HOUSE, 130 GROVE ROAD, LONDON, E3 5TW
ODS code F84055
1.4 km
QUEENSBRIDGE GROUP PRACTICE
24 HOLLY STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, E8 3XP
ODS code F84117
1.5 km
DE BEAUVOIR SURGERY
30 HERTFORD ROAD, LONDON, N1 5QT
ODS code F84072
1.6 km
ELSDALE STREET SURGERY
28 ELSDALE STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 6QY
ODS code F84601
1.6 km
HEALTH E1
9-11 BRICK LANE, LONDON, E1 6PU
ODS code F84733
1.6 km
THE SPITALFIELDS PRACTICE
20 OLD MONTAGUE STREET, LONDON, E1 5PB
ODS code F84081
1.6 km
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
86A DALSTON LANE, LONDON, E8 3AH
ODS code F84038
1.9 km
CITY SQUARE MEDICAL GROUP
14 DEANCROSS STREET, LONDON, E1 2QA
ODS code F84114
1.9 km
Showing 20 of 119 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
- 0.1 miles
Pritchards Road Bethnal Green
BCT · Bethnal Green
- 0.1 miles
Pritchards Road Bethnal Green
BCT · Bethnal Green
- 0.1 miles
Cambridge Heath (London) Rail Station
RLY · Bethnal Green
- 0.1 miles
Cambridge Heath Station
BCT · Bethnal Green
- 0.2 miles
Cambridge Heath Station
BCT · Bethnal Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tower Hamlets 002C, 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
3,553 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 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
- 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
21,067 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,755.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5,497 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.