Schools
380 open schools are in scope, including 188 primary and 53 secondary schools. Haggerston School is the nearest published school at 181 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
E2 8JS
Weavers · Tower Hamlets · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Weavers
- Local authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney
- Postcode district
- E2
- Postcode sector
- E2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E2 8JS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E2
- Postcode sector
- E2 8
- Latitude
- 51.530940
- Longitude
- -0.070993
- British National Grid easting
- 533,900
- British National Grid northing
- 183,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Tower Hamlets · E09000030
- Electoral ward
- Weavers · E05009335
- Parish or community
- E43000220
- Westminster constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney · E14001086
- Output area
- E00021723
- Lower layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 006E · E01035664
- Middle layer super output area
- Tower Hamlets 006 · E02000869
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 E2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 380
- Primary
- 188
- Secondary
- 53
- 181 m
Haggerston School
Academy converter
- 198 m
Columbia Primary School
Academy converter
- 361 m
Columbia Market Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 24,222
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5,594
- Theft from the person 2,903
- Anti social behaviour 2,687
- Other theft 2,568
- Shoplifting 2,228
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- E2 8 residents
- 8,986
Age bands in E2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 14.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 48.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 17.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 6.3%
1,184 residents
1,296 residents
4,313 residents
1,605 residents
561 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
120
within 5 km straight-line
STROUTS PLACE MEDICAL CENTRE
3 STROUTS PLACE, PELTER STREET, LONDON, E2 7QU
ODS code F84051
271 m
BETHNAL GREEN HEALTH CTR.
60 FLORIDA STREET, LONDON, E2 6LL
ODS code F84083
649 m
THE LAWSON PRACTICE
ST LEONARDS, 85 NUTTALL ST, LONDON, N1 5HZ
ODS code F84096
666 m
THE BLITHEHALE MED.CTR.
10-22 DUNBRIDGE STREET, LONDON, E2 6JA
ODS code F84718
894 m
LONDON FIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
38-44 BROADWAY MARKET, LONDON, E8 4QJ
ODS code F84021
906 m
DE BEAUVOIR SURGERY
30 HERTFORD ROAD, LONDON, N1 5QT
ODS code F84072
974 m
THE MISSION PRACTICE
MISSION MEDICAL PRACTICE, 208 CAMBRIDGE HEATH ROAD, BETHNAL GREEN, LONDON, E2 9LS
ODS code F84016
1.0 km
SHOREDITCH PARK SURGERY
6-10 RUSHTON STREET, LONDON, N1 5DR
ODS code F84635
1.1 km
THE HOXTON SURGERY
12 RUSHTON STREET, HOXTON, LONDON, N1 5DR
ODS code F84692
1.1 km
QUEENSBRIDGE GROUP PRACTICE
24 HOLLY STREET, HACKNEY, LONDON, E8 3XP
ODS code F84117
1.2 km
THE GREENHOUSE WALK-IN
19 TUDOR ROAD, LONDON, E9 7SN
ODS code F84632
1.4 km
RICHMOND ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
136 RICHMOND ROAD, LONDON, E8 3HN
ODS code F84035
1.4 km
HEALTH E1
9-11 BRICK LANE, LONDON, E1 6PU
ODS code F84733
1.4 km
CITY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
CITY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, UNIT 1-3 GROUND FLOOR, CITY HOUSE, 190-196 CITY ROAD, LONDON, EC1V 2QH
ODS code F83064
1.4 km
THE SPITALFIELDS PRACTICE
20 OLD MONTAGUE STREET, LONDON, E1 5PB
ODS code F84081
1.5 km
ALBION HEALTH CENTRE
333 WHITECHAPEL ROAD, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON, E1 1BU
ODS code F84012
1.5 km
WELL STREET SURGERY
28 SHORE ROAD, HACKNEY, LONDON, E9 7TA
ODS code F84069
1.6 km
NEW NORTH HEALTH CENTRE
287-293 NEW NORTH ROAD, LONDON, N1 7AA
ODS code F83034
1.6 km
BEECHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
86A DALSTON LANE, LONDON, E8 3AH
ODS code F84038
1.7 km
ELIZABETH AVENUE GROUP PRACTICE
2 ELIZABETH AVENUE, ISLINGTON, LONDON, N1 3BS
ODS code F83012
1.7 km
Showing 20 of 120 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Queensbridge Road
BCT · Bethnal Green
- 0.0 miles
Queensbridge Road
BCT · Bethnal Green
- 0.2 miles
Hoxton Station
BCT · Hoxton
- 0.2 miles
Hoxton Station
RSE · Hoxton
- 0.2 miles
Hoxton Rail Station
RLY · Hoxton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tower Hamlets 006E, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,520 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
24,222 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2,018.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5,594 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.